Girlfriend would not stop talking about it, so I pretty much had to read it so I could get a word in edgewise.
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Girlfriend would not stop talking about it, so I pretty much had to read it so I could get a word in edgewise.
gregbroncs
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I think It's really good. It's frustrating that the next book has not released for years though. It is very graphic in a lot of ways. If you can't deal with the sex and violence though you may not like it.
Kind of like an adult version of the wheel of time. I read them on recommendation from a lot of people on the old board. Mostly AthiestPreacher, who also convinced me to read Robin Hobb.
Interesting article...thank you.
PearlWatson
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Honest question: Have you actually read or are you otherwise familiar with the plot of Atlas Shrugged?
PearlWatson
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I've read many discussions about it but I haven't actually read it.
Archie Moses
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Who would? That sucker is the size of a log that will burn in a campfire all night. It's longer than the original Buckner thread and Ron Jeremy's ....errrr... Ok, I won't go there.
PearlWatson
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a definite tl;dr candidate
So is it possible that you're not familiar enough with the book to understand why an allegation that "Liberals love Railroads!" is ironic after someone says they've read Atlas Shrugged?
Please stop.
It took me sooooooo long to read. And there was so much stuff that could have been done away with. Anyway, I forced myself to read it.
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I read it more than once. I even wrote a research paper/essay on it and was a finalist for the Ayn Rand scholarship in 1988. And you know what? I can't remember the plot, the story in general, any of the characters really other than Taggert and Galt. I mean yes I generally know what the book is about and understood how the themes fit within her own unique philosophy, but for me it just did not have staying power. I had to really think about what you said there before it clicked.
This.
For the record, I liked the Fountainhead ok. It made me want to be an architect. =) I also liked The Virtue of Selfishness. I found her philosophy to be fascinating and much of it clicked with me. She was obviously very brilliant, but her writing style, particularly in her fiction, was hard to wade through. Working through my essay on Atlas Shrugged I learned something about Rand and it lead me to read more Aristotle and Nietzsche on my own since they were of import to her work.
I don't know, maybe I need to re-read Shrugged to see if the 20 intervening years make any difference.
Then again, I do have a copy of Watchmen sitting on my desk. Oh and Man vs Food is on tonight. Yeah maybe I won't read it.
****ing A, Log. I feel the same way. I absolutely loved The Fountainhead. To this day Howard Roark is one of my favorite literary characters. I also liked TVOS and thought it was misunderstood by many people. She WAS brilliant and her writing showed this, but she did tend to wander a lot...not to mention her issues with sex and sexuality came through in all of her writings.
IN regards to Atlas Shrugged, there were a few diatribes in it that completely endeared me to capitalism and what it means to practice it.
PearlWatson
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I can see how an "all aboard" type of person might find it ironic.
So no, you don't understand. Gotcha.
PearlWatson
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LOL! If you say so.
Archie Moses
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Here's a cool steampunk blog that's given me some ideas on the next read.
https://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/
I'm currently reading.
https://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/
I'm currently reading.