Has Anyone Else Read....

by Rikki_Fawkes

Posted: 14 years ago 15 replies

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"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand?

I'm currently plugging my way through. It's very interesting and impressive, but at over 1000 pages, it's daunting. If you read it, how long did it take?

#atlas shrugged #ayn rand

Lawrh 14 years ago

I read it back in the 1970's. It took four or five days.
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- Rikki_Fawkes 14 years ago
  
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Lawrh 14 years ago

I'm not a fast reader, I just get involved and don't stop until it's finished.
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HeySal 14 years ago

I had to read it once back in College and I have no clue any more what I read. I know I had sprint to get done with it in time. I've been thinking of reading it again lately since Rand is so heavily in the public consciousness again. Hopefully, it will be an easy read since it's the second time. I'm sure I'll remember parts when I see them again anyhow.

I also had to read War and Peace which is also 1000 some odd pages, and couldn't tell you much about that particular book either. LOL - That one hasn't made me want to read it again yet, though.
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jacktackett 14 years ago

Since Dan Kennedy came out as a big fan it seems every IM'er claims we just HAVE to read this.

Well, I've tried several times (who says peer pressure if for the young?) and I've never made it very far - why? - its BORING.

While it might be a capitalistic manifesto, as a novel it just plain sucks, at least to me. It might get better in the middle - but having read some of the beginning and the ending - I just don't see it.

As for War and Peace - I understand its a lot better in the original Klingon :-)

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HeySal 14 years ago

- I understand its a lot better in the original Klingon :-)

Um...uh........Jack? Did you just call me a Klingon? Klingons are pussy cats compared to Cossacks.
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- jacktackett 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HeySal
  
  Um...uh........Jack? Did you just call me a Klingon? Klingons are pussy cats compared to Cossacks.
  
  Sal,
  sincere apologies - I would never insult you like that. And I agree - Klingons are wimps.
  
  I look to you more as one of Joss Whedon's Smoking Hot Girls who can kick my ass type rather than a Klingon - or even a Cossack....
  
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CDarklock 14 years ago

You'd learn more reading this thread.
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- Lawrh 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  You'd learn more reading this thread.
  
  The only thing to read was something about public enemas. Not something I would try.
  
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Lawrh
  
  The only thing to read was something about public enemas. Not something I would try.
  
  You're like, okl and ****.
  
  And I'm drunk.
  
  Okay, I have this bottle of Cuervo... and this bottle of 2008 Twisted Merlot. Hard decision.
  
  **** it, Cuervo.
  
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CDarklock 14 years ago

WTF, I keep forgetting they censor here.

Picture us coolin' out on the fourth of July... and if you heard we were celebrating, that's a world wide LIE.

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- Bill Farnham 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  WTF, I keep forgetting they censor here.
  
  They give vacations here too, if I recall.
  
  I don't think you've hit your 1000 post target yet, so be cool...
  
  ~Bill
  
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Bill Farnham
  
  I don't think you've hit your 1000 post target yet, so be cool...
  
  I'm cooler than you can comprehend. All aboard!
  
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HeySal 14 years ago

Hey - CD? Wrong media, guy - books...ya know...things with spines.
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- CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HeySal
  
  things with spines.
  
  But can you kick it like this?
  
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