To: Hank Kerchief
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far.
To: West Coast Conservative
If you think it's pretty good so far, just wait. It gets better and better with each page.
6 posted on
03/11/2005 6:22:51 PM PST by
ShadowDancer
(As for the types of comments I make,sometimes I just, By God,get carried away with my own eloquence.)
To: West Coast Conservative
"I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far."I envy you...it's the only book I have read multiple times.
10 posted on
03/11/2005 6:31:36 PM PST by
gorush
(Exterminate the Moops!)
To: West Coast Conservative
Its an important work, but it's a pain in the arse. There's no excuse for the repetition and flowery cliche in some places. She was brilliant, and yet a fool for not accepting the help of an "objective" editor.
12 posted on
03/11/2005 6:32:03 PM PST by
sam_paine
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To: West Coast Conservative
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far.It is a good book but is not the best writing. It's ideas are more important than her writing style. Reading the book I found it to be obviously be written by a woman. Even the heroin, Dagney, whines about how she can't find a man of the mind anywhere when she needs a man, of the mind of course.
15 posted on
03/11/2005 6:41:23 PM PST by
Lester Moore
(Islam's Allah is Satan and is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
To: West Coast Conservative
You'll see different things in it the second time you read it. The last time I read it, it scared me. I would read the things said by James Taggart and his friends, and then read the same things in the current issue of the newspaper.
I've read it 4 times so far.
16 posted on
03/11/2005 6:43:14 PM PST by
wolfpat
(Dum vivimus, vivamus)
To: West Coast Conservative
The story of Starnesville(sp?) scares the hell out of me
19 posted on
03/11/2005 6:47:50 PM PST by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: West Coast Conservative
"Who's John Galt" stickers were plastered all over campus, (Rutgers 1961). I was hooked. I bought the book and being a Sci Fi guy his motor seemed surreal. Having grown up in a Democratic family I didn't understand her philosophy at first. But like Churchill says when you're young you act from the heart and are "liberal". As you grow and mature you act from your intellect and become conservative.
All the Alan Colmes of the world are in a state of arrested development!
To: West Coast Conservative
I was thinking of her this morning while reading the Bankruptcy Bill. Some people make money from "Washington Ability". So I looked it up and there it was on page 58, paperback edition.
68 posted on
03/11/2005 11:40:03 PM PST by
investigateworld
(Another California Refugee in Oregon)
To: West Coast Conservative
Try "The Fountainhead", too.
To: West Coast Conservative
The prose isn't very good. But, one can see elements of the book coming to life today ( in maybe a slightly different guise - property rights, corporate subsidies, etc. ).
To: West Coast Conservative
Pretty good so far.
Not only does it get better with each page................
It improves with each reading.
I try to schedule enough time each year to re-read this classic.
89 posted on
03/12/2005 7:53:17 AM PST by
WhiteGuy
("a taxpayer dollar must be spent wisely, or not at all" - GW BUSH </sarcasm>)
To: West Coast Conservative
Be careful about taking it seriously as a political or economic blueprint, though.
If you really sit a libertarian down and try to paint them a picture of what the world would be like if the got everything they wanted, they deny it would be anarchy, or they resort to ad hominems.
The commies could never get their system to work because they never believed the end result of laziness from the removal of incentives.
Pure libertarianism will never work, either, because it ignores the disturbing human tendency to behave poorly without an external braking system. And the libertarians refuse to believe that many among us would turn into savages without rules and a coercive body to enforce them.
251 posted on
04/01/2005 11:51:48 AM PST by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat [Born in California, Texan by the Grace of God.])
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