How did you get through **** like the example I posted. I mean. I got through it. But it was painful. Masterpiece?I've read it 3 times: once as a young man, and every 15 or so years since then. I believe it to be a masterpiece, especially since it was written in the 50s, and foretells nearly everything we are seeing today in this country.
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Well arent you just the turd in the punch bowl...Well I can see this won’t be a popular opinion. Atlas Shrugged is probably one of the worst novels ever written. Rand, as a writer, is WAY overrated. Atlas Shrugged was her attempt to explain Objectivism, and a defense of Capitalism through storytelling. She just really sucks at storytelling. And it’s too bad. There are some redeeming points. Just poorly executed.
I’ll look through my notes that point to some of the worst turns of phrases ever penned, and post them later.
It should be mandatory that high school graduates be able to read.... it should be mandatory reading in high school
It should be mandatory that high school graduates be able to read.
Me too.I did the audio book about 5 years ago. I’m due for another read of it
It should be mandatory that they be allowed to shoot it after reading it. My son had to read it. I tried to talk him into borrowing my kindle version. But he wanted the print. That was last Semester. At least we can shoot it now. Books are kinda fun to shoot.It should be mandatory that high school graduates be able to read.
Damn that's hard to read.Here’s a gem:
A gray cotton, which was neither quite fog nor clouds, hung in sloppy wads between sky and mountains, making the sky look like an old mattress spilling its stuffing down the sides of the peaks. A crusted snow covered the ground, belonging neither to winter nor to spring. A net of moisture hung in the air, and she felt an icy pinprick on her face once in a while, which was neither a raindrop nor a snowflake. The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of—
JUST GET TO THE ***DAMN POINT!
I have to agree that as a literary novel it's painful but a lot of crap that gets called great literature isn't much better. The concepts and points though are solid in spite of the author's weaknesses and I think that's what causes people to embrace it, even overlooking the faults in the writing to embrace the bigger picture.Rand, as awriternovelist, is WAY overrated. Atlas Shrugged was her attempt to explain Objectivism, and a defense of Capitalism through storytelling. She just really sucks at storytelling. And it’s too bad. There are some redeeming points. Just poorly executed.
I am going to check that out.No, but I have read Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict Of Visions"
I called Rand a writer because she was indeed a prolific writer, despite her inability to express ideas meaningfully. She wrote a lot of nonfiction as well. But she communicates her ideas in the most complicated ways. It’s easy to make complicated ideas complicated. It’s hard to make complicated ideas easy.I have to agree that as a literary novel it's painful but a lot of crap that gets called great literature isn't much better. The concepts and points though are solid in spite of the author's weaknesses and I think that's what causes people to embrace it, even overlooking the faults in the writing to gain the bigger picture.
As a contrast, just taking the works of one author. Jordan Peterson is an example of both. Maps of meaning is complicated. It’s a complicated concept presented in a complicated way. He figured it out with his 12 rules series. He presented some fairly complicated concepts in a way that makes it easy to understand what he’s saying.