Our First FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged

A Publius Essay | 15 January 2009 | Publius

[Publius]

You have already pre-registered. Thanks for encouraging me.

[Publius]

Ping. Interested in participating?

[Publius]

As promised, here it is.

[Rightly Biased]

Well I am reading it now so I guess I would like some discussion on the book so could you add me

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[G.Mason]

Ping list bump.

Thanks

[goodnesswins]

This is great....I’ll follow the thread ..... but I won’t read it again....once (when I was in my early 30’s) was enough....too many books....too little time right now. But, everyone should read it ONCE!

[HelloooClareece]

Ping me please. I’ve been dying to read it.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I readed a book onest. Sign me up.

[libertarian27]

Please add me to this ping list.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Americans accepted that things were hopeless and that nothing could be done. Feelings replaced facts. The very nature of reality was questioned. It took only a decade of economic stasis, misguided politics and cultural pollution to create the hell described by Rand.

Ouch. Too close to today's reality.

[AmericanGirlRising]

I’d like to join. I chew threw 2-4 conservative/political books a month.

In my Christian high school, we weren’t permitted to read Atlas Shrugged because of Rand’s atheism. I’ve read parts later in life, and would enjoy a discussion.

[alexander_busek]

Was talking only today to a coworker about Atlas Shrugged.

Unfortunately, Ayn Rand is unknown here in Germany - even among intellectuals.

I've got to get me a copy and reread it - it's been twenty-five years. Suppose that I'll have to order it online, since I want it in the original.

Regards,

[Mark was here]

It should be stated that most mere mortals are unable to finish the final speech.

[Mmogamer]

add me to ping list please.

[COUNTrecount]

Please include me.

[I see my hands]

I don't recall the chapter where John or Francisco curled up with a good book.

Education is necessary.. everyone should read Rand, but the decades of opportunity to teach are gone. We aren't in an age of the mind, right now. Force will decide the future, not words.

[Army Air Corps]

I chew threw 2-4 conservative/political books a month.

Well then, I recommend Humberto Fontova's book on Che Guevara and Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism".

[The Louiswu]

Please sign me up. I have read it several times and hope to read it several more. I love the "throw back" quality, the timelessness of it. Since it is a story about human nature, the absence gadgets and technology that have come along since the book were written don't have any impact on the heart of the story for me.

I believe we are still early in this book. Once Zero is sworn in, the Looters will have "their man in Washington" and things will really begin to crumble.

[MarkL]

Well, I know that I often feel like Eddie, wondering what in the world is going on, and what’s wrong with these people.

One thing that I will say... I think that Ayn Rand must be spinning in her grave, because it’s the leftists that have completely mastered the revelation that Frisco revealed to Hank Reardon: The leftists have rejected the entire concept of guilt, to the point that they no longer have even the slightest bit of conscience, as we can see with the nomination of the guy for Secretary of the Treasury who didn’t pay his taxes. And the leftists are saying “it’s no big deal.” Talk about not being laden with guilt - or conscience.

Mark