Got to go to the book store this week.
Cheers!
Count me in. Thanks.
I loved Atlas Shrugged! I haven’t read it in 20 years. Please sign me up.
An excellent idea. Long overdue. There should also be two booklists for conservatives: an essential and an exhaustive. Conservatives never seem to agree on them but we should give it a shot anyway. Count me in.
Add me please.
Please add me to list, Publius.
Thanks!
Please add me to the ping list. Many thanks. I am particularly fond of The Federalist Papers and I eagerly await the chance to discuss them.
Thank you again for your efforts.
I was one of those. My eyes couldn't take 400 pages of the tiny-est print.
Add me to your list and I will try again.
Please add me to your ping list.
Thanks
Cool, Publius - count me in! I finally read Atlas Shrugged for the first time about 3 years ago, since I’d heard about it forever and wanted to understand the “Who is John Galt” references I kept reading/hearing. It’s an awesome book, and I could see why my California public educators never assigned it to me... LOL.
Is there even a Cliffs Notes of this book? I imagine it would be as thick as a normal pocket-paperback...
Sign me up please! I’m 2/3rd of the way through the book for the first time and am loving it. I asked for Atlas Shrugged for Christmas and must say it’s the best present I got.
When I moved from the house to the condo, I purged paperbacks from 18 cases (11x17) down to 6...I must have put AS in the Goodwill group. So I have ordered a used copy from Barnes & Noble.
Better late than never. Can you add me to the book club ping list? I had Atlas Shrugged on my bookshelf for years, and finally picked it up last week. At about 200 pages in, I’m amazed at the parallels between Rand’s world then, and our world today. I’d like to be in on the discussion.
Thanks!
Maybe this will come up in your discussions.
I read Rand when I was fifteen and sixteen years old and felt justified afterward in taking an eleven-year vacation from my faith.
Just saying.
I first read it in the 60’s, then again about 20 years ago. So it's now about time.
Two things I've always wondered about:
1)Two of Ayn Rand's male heros from Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were Howard Roark and Hank Reardon; both of their initials being H.R.??
2)I've always wanted to see it as a movie, or better, a TV Miniseries and I've always wondered if it should be updated to modern technology. After much thought I'm convinced it has to be just as it was written: railroads and high tech steel. Anything else would be too distracting. As written, it would be more abstract but applicable to the essence of reality.
Thanks, Norm
Please add me to the ping list for this book club. Great idea, btw!
I think there are times that Rand sometimes made her side too perfect, but they are people who are flawed like the rest of us. Still, I think she has a good grasp on the metaphor where if people are taxed too much to the point to where their money is going down a rathole, yet they are still demonized. If they object to it, they are demonized and resented more. Basically, the people who produce feel so upset and angry, they pull an Eric Cartman and say “screw you guys, I’m going home” and denying society and the marketplace their labor and expertise. There are times I can be a critic of Ayn Rand, but with the election of BO, I would have to say that it is time for Atlas to Shrug so we can stop this slide to socialism.
Please put me on your ping list. Thank you! I just started reading the book, and then I noticed this thread tonight.
Unfortunately, I read a spoiler somewhere, so now I have an idea where the story is going... But I just started the first chapter.
When I first saw this, I thought, “Naw, I don’t have enough time.”
Now, I’ve changed my mind. Please add me to your ping list.
Looking forward to it, and thanks,
Joya