Posted: 7/25/2008 2:04:18 PM EDT
| Halfway through the book. I can feel what leftist ideas I do have slowly shedding off as I read each page. Comparing her description of a decaying country to the tales my grandparents told of the USSR is chillingly accurate.. |
instead of comparing the story to descriptions of the ussr, think in term of what year she wrote it and compare it to OUR country, where it was and where it is going......scary stuff..... |
Just listening to news-radio on the way home, I couldn't help it 
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the anger will kick in soon..... |
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I understand and like the philosophy of the book, but it was the most boring BORING book I have ever read. I only got 1/2 way through. But most books written by chicks I find I don't like. But if you can dig it great. I just thought the style was boring. I'll read some Heinlein instead. |
+1 on Heinlein. As an English-major, my thoughts mirror yours. I find myself skipping pages where it's nothing but thought, to get to the rest of the story. |
Skip any passage that involves inner-thought or romance and you'll be good. |
Yeah, the evil capitalist constitution will be shown as the great threat to the ability of the all powerful and helpful "big brother" government to "help" us all right into a communist paradise. Seriously, I'll bet they'll (intentionally) screw the thing around so bad it won't be recognizable and will be pro-socialist propaganda by the time it hits the theatres. I hope not, but the powers that be can't have the lemmings hearing too much truth. Gotta keep 'em thinking Big Brother is "only here to help". |
+1, It's been called the second most important book ever written besides the Bible. Didn't believe it at first but every day I see things on the news that wouldn't make sense to me if it wasn't for AS. Helps you see through the clutter. BTW Of course it's similar to the fall of the USSR. Ayn Rand GREW UP during the Communist Revolution. Check out one of her earlier books dealing directly with that "We the Living". |
I fear this more than you know. It should be illegal for filmmakers to do such things. |
Like what they did with the Mancurian Candidate >:o\ |
Yea, "AS" is flat in a lot of places and the ideas are repetitive.... but that isn't such a bad thing since it is probably needed to get the ideas across to our more "socialized" friends. I 'll agree it isn't the best read, but most boring ever???? No way! "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" takes the cake for me hands down. |
i'm aware of her past....take a look at my sigline....but it's not similar to the fall of the USSR, before the pinko revolution russia was czarist, comunism came crashing down around their heads true but they did not start with freedoms and watch the great industrial machine grind to a halt because of the slow creep of socialism into society, as in the book....there was not freedom to begin with there....in an old taped interview I saw of her she said she was worried the "progressives" would take us down the road of a "socialist utopia" and ruin the greatest country the world has ever seen......she was dead on fuckin' right.... |
Oops, sorry.... 
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first time I tried reading it I wanted to read every page and I stopped about halfway through. Maybe 8 months later I picked it up again and started over but skipped parts that were just inner ramblings or speeches. It is a heck of a book and I have read all the others people have mentioned in this thread. I am not ready to go hide somewhere but I sure the heck won't be giving myself health problems trying to earn every penny I can each tax season. The book really helped me put some thoughts into complete ideas. I am planning to read it again soon and might even read every single word in the book this time. These days I enjoy the book for what it did when it comes to me having complete concepts put together and explainable to others who think it is great to have kids and get an earned tax credit or whatever they call that unearned money they give some people. |
| It was an ok book. Needlessly wordy and much longer than it had to be to make the point. I don't understand the silly hero worship of it on arf, but I guess some people have only read a couple of books in their life. The ideas in it are obviously dated, and her grand socialistic hell has yet to materialize anywhere so I think it's short sighted and for the most part, wrong. Babbling fiction for easily entertained people. |
So says the man from the land of socialism, royalty, and spying cameras. |
Yet another super-observant poster who missed all the subtle clues that I might not be British at all. It's no wonder you think Atlas Shrugged is great reading. |
 JHC I write some clumsy sentances! 
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Subtle? You mean like your avatar? US Chair Force? Something like that? |