awesome novel

1/26/2010 12:16:00 AM

+1

1/26/2010 12:16:33 AM

i have her biography that i haven't started yet... i'm worried it might be a tough read

1/26/2010 12:16:34 AM

Is this the thread where we laugh at libertarians?

1/26/2010 12:18:27 AM

no, this thread is only for people in their 20's.

1/26/2010 12:20:02 AM

Oh my god I hope this thread is a joke.

Oh my god I hope this thread is a joke.

1/26/2010 12:23:47 AM

I couldn't make it through the entire plot summary on wikipedia.

1/26/2010 12:24:42 AM

why did atlas shrug?




























its ok, he doesn't know either.

1/26/2010 12:25:30 AM

I played Bioshock, that's basically the same thing right?

1/26/2010 12:25:58 AM

who is john galt?

1/26/2010 12:26:23 AM

There's nothing wrong with Atlas Shrugged that can't be fixed with a good ol' fashioned book burning.

1/26/2010 12:27:31 AM

^^^I love the writers of Bioshock. They hate Ayn Rand every bit as much as I do, but somehow people think the game was written in Rand's memory.

[Edited on January 26, 2010 at 12:27 AM. Reason : ^]

1/26/2010 12:27:43 AM

i liked the fountainhead, no fake

1/26/2010 12:27:50 AM

^^^^

In the novel, Galt is the son of an Ohio garage mechanic, who leaves home at age twelve and begins college at Patrick Henry University at age sixteen. There he befriends Francisco d'Anconia and Ragnar Danneskjöld as all three of them double-major in physics and philosophy. After graduating, Galt becomes an engineer at the Twentieth Century Motor Company, where he designs a revolutionary new motor powered by ambient static electricity. When the company owners decide to run the factory by the collectivist maxim, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," Galt refuses to work there any longer and abandons his motor. These events all occur before the novel begins, but are described by the characters.

During the main storyline of the book, Galt has secretly organized a strike by the world's creative leaders, including inventors, artists and businessmen, in an effort to "stop the motor of the world," thereby bringing about the collapse of the collectivist society. While working incognito as a laborer for Taggart Transcontinental railroad, he travels to visit the key figures that he has not yet recruited, systematically convincing them to join the strike. This strike is not revealed immediately within the story, but forms the backdrop of the novel as a mystery which protagonist Dagny Taggart seeks to uncover, with Galt as her antagonist. The strikers have created their own secret enclave known as "Galt's Gulch," a town secluded in a Colorado mountain valley. While in the valley, Taggart develops a romantic relationship with Galt, although she refuses to join the strike. After Taggart returns home, Galt takes over the airwaves to deliver a lengthy speech explaining the irrationality of collectivism and offering his own philosophy (actually a summary of Rand's Objectivist philosophy) as an alternative. Galt spoke against what he saw as the "evil" of collectivism and Christian ideas of collective sin and guilt, and said they should be replaced by enlightened selfishness and individualism. Seeking Galt after the speech, Taggart accidentally leads the authorities to him, and he is arrested. At this point Galt gets into a single minor fracas, which terrifies his mother who insists that he move in with his aunt and uncle in Bel Air. Galt whistles for a taxi, but upon closer inspection notes that it's license plate says "fresh" and a pair of dice are displayed prominently on the mirror. If anything, this cab could be weird, but he thought nothing of it and uttered "yo holmes, to Bel Air".

1/26/2010 12:31:29 AM

OH FUCK
ahahaha

that made me literally LOL, dude. 10/10.

1/26/2010 12:32:39 AM

fountainhead is better

1/26/2010 3:04:19 AM

None of it is better.

All works exist on a plane where they are equal in the amount of bullshit they contain.

1/26/2010 3:25:55 AM

come on people, we're in our late teens.

1/26/2010 3:30:51 AM

1/26/2010 3:33:59 AM

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"None of it is better. All works exist on a plane where they are equal in the amount of bullshit they contain."

1/26/2010 4:07:35 AM

book is garbage

1/26/2010 4:18:55 AM

^ yep. it's a sheer waste of time.

unless you LIKE poorly-written pretentious crap from an wannabe philosopher with no formal philosophical education who convinced a bunch of losers she had discovered The System of Everything.

i'd almost rather read Elron Hubbard.

almost.

1/26/2010 4:47:06 AM

Elron?

1/26/2010 4:51:37 AM

hahahaha

elron

1/26/2010 5:02:11 AM

im actually reading this too....about 75% of the way thru

there is no one in this book that reminds me of evan. I often remind myself of Hank Rearden

1/26/2010 7:46:40 AM

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"book is garbage"

1/26/2010 7:58:01 AM

Is this that book where everyone can't refer to themselves as an individual?


I'd rather stab my eye with a hot poker than read that shit again.

1/26/2010 8:24:08 AM

Could never make it through this book, and I have a high pain tolerance and will of steel

1/26/2010 8:54:04 AM

why is the old sex toy lady itt?

1/26/2010 9:06:12 AM

hahah "elron"

1/26/2010 9:14:20 AM

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"Is this that book where everyone can't refer to themselves as an individual? I'd rather stab my eye with a hot poker than read that shit again."

I think that's Anthem.

1/26/2010 9:19:00 AM

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"Is this the thread where we laugh at libertarians?"

1/26/2010 9:43:38 AM

LOLRON

1/26/2010 10:40:36 AM

^3 Ohh, yup, that's it. Just thinking about that book makes me cringe. >.>

1/26/2010 10:59:02 AM

haiti joke?

1/26/2010 10:59:51 AM

oh, i hate her all right

1/26/2010 11:04:59 AM

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"yep. it's a sheer waste of time. unless you LIKE poorly-written pretentious crap from an wannabe philosopher with no formal philosophical education who convinced a bunch of losers she had discovered The System of Everything. i'd almost rather read Elron Hubbard. almost."

Wow. For someone that apparently dislikes pretentious crap, your post sure seems a bit pretentious.
Then you complain about her having no formal education, just before you say "Elron".
Well played, sir.

1/26/2010 11:54:26 AM

One of my favorite books of all time.

1/26/2010 11:56:56 AM

tl;dr

[Edited on January 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM. Reason : a]

1/26/2010 11:58:17 AM

once i heard neal boortz suggest reading atlas shrugged, i knew it was not worth reading

1/26/2010 12:00:17 PM

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"Is this the thread where we laugh at libertarians?"

Yes.

1/26/2010 12:13:03 PM

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"Then you complain about her having no formal education, just before you say "Elron". Well played, sir. "

1/27/2010 2:03:26 AM

Post all the supposedly humorous JPEGs you like, sir.

The fact is you pwnt yourself with that one.

1/27/2010 2:05:10 AM

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"unless you LIKE poorly-written pretentious crap from an wannabe philosopher with no formal philosophical education who convinced a bunch of losers she had discovered The System of Everything."

haha that's probably the best summary I've heard of that book.

The only person I've met who "loves" Atlas Shrugged is someone who would feed you so much bullshit in the first five minutes of meeting her you'd drown in the stench.

1/27/2010 2:07:43 AM

it's embarrassing when someone older than 21 talks about how much they are in the rand.

1/27/2010 2:24:37 AM

^^^ i'm sorry you're a little bit slow, mate, but unfortunately, I know more about the CoS than any person ought to.

i worked for a certain company for a year, whose entire executive staff took quarterly trips to CoS seminars in Clearwater FL to clear their Thetans out. And I read enough goddamned "business tech" garbage from Elron Hubbard's secular writings (WISE) to choke a goat.

now i got the fuck out of there alright, but i'm gonna go ahead and state that as whacked out as those people are, i think i'd rather spend my time with them than with a bunch of Ayn Rand groupies.





[Edited on January 27, 2010 at 2:33 AM. Reason : ]

1/27/2010 2:30:20 AM

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"ELRON HUBBARD ELRON HUBBARD ELRON HUBBARD ELRON HUBBARD ELRON HUBBARD ELRON HUBBARD "

1/27/2010 2:49:54 AM

I don't buy shit in Rand's writing

but nothing she has done is remotely poorly written.

1/27/2010 9:12:17 AM

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"unfortunately, I know more about the CoS than any person ought to."

Clearly demonstrated by your mastery of spelling.

1/27/2010 10:11:51 AM

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"ELRON HUBBARD EL-RON HUB-BARD LOL-RON HU-BBARD"

1/27/2010 10:32:05 AM