Trains are great, but not quite cutting edge.
May I humbly suggest a replacement that is up to date, and fresh off the presses:
Posted on 05/23/2009 7:14:53 AM PDT by Publius
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FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas Shrugged
Part I, Chapter I: The Theme
Part I, Chapter II: The Chain
Part I, Chapter III: The Top and the Bottom
Part I, Chapter IV: The Immovable Movers
Part I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Part I, Chapter VI: The Non-Commercial
Part I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the Exploited
Part I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt Line
Part I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the Profane
Part I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s Torch
Part II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on Earth
Part II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of Pull
Part II, Chapter III: White Blackmail
Part II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim
Part II, Chapter V: Account Overdrawn
Part II, Chapter VI: Miracle Metal
Part II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on Brains
Part II, Chapter IX: By Our Love
Atlas shrugged a long time ago when he created NAFTA, brought China into the WTO and moved most of our non-defense factories overseas.
Trains are great, but not quite cutting edge.
May I humbly suggest a replacement that is up to date, and fresh off the presses:
... and currently ranked #69 on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Not bad for a book a half-century old.
I love the smell of shameless self-promotion in the morning.
;^)
Somehow, I get the strange feeling that Wesley Mouch is right out of Today’s Headlines........
An interesting choice of words, Publius.
The reader knows what is really occurring. That Hank is assuming a sexual conquest was intended is probably a good thing for Francisco. Had Hank known that Francisco is after much more than that, Hank probably would have killed him.
Found him. His title is Regulatory Czar.
I think it's a bad sign when we currently have more Czars than imperial Russia ever had.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/05/20/regulatory_czar_nomination_clears_senate_panel/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
Hello Matt,
Just finished your masterpiece. And I don't use that term loosely. It is a beautiful tour de force, in which you certainly hit all the right notes. Conservatives in America should take to this like the colonists took to Paine in '76.
Endearing heroic characters, tension racked plot that unfolds with surprises right up to the end. The scene where Acorzado turns and joins the rebels is emotional perfection. So many scenes in this book (from Jenny in the ravine, to Carson's "time to act" speech with the flag, Bible and beret) bring that tingling feeling all up and down my spine and the back of my neck. Excellent underlying message between all the lines throughout the entire book. Which Constitution? Yes, indeed, which one will we follow? You write so vividly and integrate all the subtle nuances of the socialist brainwash beautifully with the dialogue. Your grasp of all their pernicious semantic sophistries is so good, which is what drew me to your first two volumes. And you've merely carried that grasp forward with this one in spades.
Also the didacticism of the book is just the right amount, and integrated into the scenes perfectly in my opinion. No long-winded lectures like Edwin Vieiera's recent Crashmaker; but pithy and powerful expressions of what freedom, the Constitution, and America are all about from your characters. They possess the right length and the right emotional note.
This book could be one of the turning points of American history, Matt. I only hope that you can convince someone like Glenn Beck to get interested in it. It is a book that would take off like wildfire if he ever started promoting it. Of course, there is a downside to big recognition and sales. The left will come down on you in full smear mode to try and kill the book and its author if it looks like widespread popularity is coming your way. So be prepared. But then I don't need to tell you how vicious they can be.
Anyway, I enjoyed the book immensely, not just because it is a terrific rendition philosophically and politically of what America's problems are and how the military must be aroused to face the coming crises, but also because it is a crackerjack story. You have combined the two areas of "message" and "plot" together in a most persuasive and entertaining manner. Bravo!
What are your promotional plans? Any ideas on how to get a copy into Beck's hands? Hope you're going to send a copy to Buchanan. Are you going to send out review copies to all the conservative magazines and websites? Also all the radio shows. Have you ever heard of Radio TV Interview Report? It might be a way for you to get noticed with all the conservative radio shows. I used them back in '98 to book interviews for my tax book that I wrote when I was working for Citizens for an Alternative Tax System. Got lots of bookings. The costs of advertising with them will soak up much of your profits from sales, but it is a stepping stone to be "noticed" by bigger shows such as Beck, Savage and Limbaugh. So even if you break even profit-wise with all the interview bookings they bring you, you are still putting yourself out there where the big boys could notice you. They can be reached here: http://www.rtir.com/index.html Also here: Bradley Communications Corp., 390 Reed Road, Broomall, PA 19008; Phone: 484-477-4220; Fax: 610-541-0281.
Just a fantastic book old friend. Let me know how you progress in the upcoming months.
Best as always, (redacted)
i'm just to the point where they are going in after Brad...
That’s back in Enemies Foreign And Domestic. You only have two and a half novels to go!
don't forget to sign my Foreign Enemies...
You didn’t get it yet? All of the pre-orders have been signed and sent. Over 700 of them.
This chapter seems to set up later ones more than anything else. Esp the whole ‘love triangle’ (which kind of morphs into a love Venn diagram with Dagny in the middle).
Ahhhh.... We’re back to the sex again.
You really did a marvelous job summing up this chapter, Publius.
Too bad there was only Charlie’s Angels in her later years, because Rand would have loved The Bachelorette. One woman and several men, all fighting for her! What a fantasy!
She might well have been an honored figure in Russia in the early Nineties.
This chapter is very short and sets up the whole Quention Daniels thing that leads to -- well, we know where that leads. It's an interlude, although perhaps it should be spelled interlewd.
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