Atlas Shrugged is simultaneously the best and worst book I have ever read. The mystery of John Galt and the romance between Francesco and Dagny is perfect. Hank, the pirate, Midas' magic, happy, gold jew-land, John's torture, the sonic government weapon of mass destruction...
>>25237623Its pure kineaux, except for the speech but I get why she deemee it neccessary, even I didnt understand much of it. I always pity the virgin that gets triggered by her books. Lmao.
>>25237623If you haven't read stuff that's better than AS at its best and worse than it at its worst you need to read more.But yeah, I do agree, it's a curious mixture of the very bad and the surprisingly-not-bad. You wade through clunky crap with the message hitting you over the head and then she'll say something startlingly insightful or present some situation which really hits home.The cigarette-worship is kinda funny though. In The Fountainhead it was skyscrapers, in AS it's cigarettes. She loves her phallic symbols.She was that strange creature, I think, a highly-sexed male-brained female who wanted to be out-masculined. Maybe not that strange actually for a jewess. I've met more than one of them like that.
She predicted redditors and hydraulic fracking in the 1940s. Thats insane but I do admit the book is borderline unreadable and I only was able to do it because I read it as a high school student with nothing else to do
>>25239211It was definitely a chore to get through. So many parts made me want to put the book down, but there was enough interesting ideas that I stuck it out, only to be hit with an atrocious ending. It was better than The Fountainhead, at least.
>>25237623Peep Show lookin' ass.
You can't really understand AS until you realize that Rand took the Soviet Industrial Novel and inverted it to a defense of Capitalism. It's still an overwrought political polemic. (Also, Dagny and Francesco may have had a "romance," but she did end up as Galt's bang-maid.)
Atlas Shrugged is way better than the constant hate it gets implies. People put it at worse then Harry Potter tier.I get that smarmy libertarian fanatics and awful 2000s redditors were obnoxious but you really don't have to push that onto the book >>25239211As a bored underachieving kid in the midwest, Atlas Shrugged, Catcher in the Rye, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance,Slaughterhouse 5 and Fahrenheit 451 were important to me as I considered shoving my dads seecamp down my throat
>>25237623>>25238310>>25241348foid coded. the only redeeming factor in this pile of slop is cuffy meigs
Thelema for mouth breathers.
What sort of person would you guys think I am if I admitted that I own physical copies of all of Ayn Rand's major works of fiction (Atlas, Fountainhead, We the Living, and Anthem)?
>>25241401>What sort of person would you guys think I ammildly based?
>>25241401There's nothing wrong with science fiction; now, if you owned her non-fiction . . . well, that would be another matter entirely.
>>25241364There is a big, big difference between "Thelema" and "Thélème." I sure hope you don't mean the first one.
