To: keithtoo
I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.
52 posted on
03/06/2007 4:11:10 PM PST by
Churchillspirit
(We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
To: Churchillspirit
Bother. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain.
54 posted on
03/06/2007 4:12:24 PM PST by
highimpact
(Abortion is a voluntary human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
To: Churchillspirit
The Fountainhead was a great read, but nowhere near the same league as Atlas Shrugged.
57 posted on
03/06/2007 4:16:07 PM PST by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
To: Churchillspirit
I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother. Don't. Even the sex scene between Hank Reardon and Dagny Taggart is boring.
Too much of Rand was written in opposition to the Communists, to the point that she almost comes off as a photographic negative of their beliefs--excepting of course the secular atheism.
No, I couldn't finish the book--and as proof of my endurance, I even managed to make it to the end of Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Years..
Cheers!
89 posted on
03/06/2007 10:17:39 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
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To: Churchillspirit
I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.I am often amused that so many "readers" of Ayn Rand's books are willing to boast of their ignorance and herd mentality. These threads are the evidence of why she recoiled from conservatism. It doesn't take any great amount of intelligence to "get" Objectivism, so long as you are able to question your knowledge.
To: Churchillspirit
I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.
You must read it, it's like a prophecy of our current political environment. It's uncanny in it's accuracy.
121 posted on
03/07/2007 1:08:43 PM PST by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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