THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on August 08, 2007, 04:37:09 PM
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Any suggestions on how the best way to do this would be? How lengthy are chapters generally in the book. Chapter a day? 5 chapters a week? I figure I have to set some sort of base limit or else I will never finish it.
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How many chapters are there? If it's 10 to 20, 1 entry/chapter would be fine.
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I always wanted to read this.
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you never "wanted" to read atlus shrugged unless you're a miserable teenaged nerdlinger. sane people are FORCED to read it, and yes, TVC is being FORCED to read it by his own ascetic/masochistic literary criticism tendencies
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It's on my reading list, just not very high. It keeps getting bumped back down by more important books. It's kind of like motorcycle diaries for me on netflix.
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I was really just looking for something to force myself to blog.
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you never "wanted" to read atlus shrugged unless you're a miserable teenaged nerdlinger. sane people are FORCED to read it, and yes, TVC is being FORCED to read it by his own ascetic/masochistic literary criticism tendencies
whats so bad about it? in which way does it offend your literary taste?
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1. it is poorly screed, as prose goes
2. it is poorly paced, as narrative goes
3. it is pompous and juvenile in philosophy, serving to enumerate the various ways an unenlightened ego can be wounded as spewed in expository form by the most self-aggrandizing cipher of a main character ever
objectivism is what you believe when reality just won't put you on the pedestal you think you deserve
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Goddamn I love you. If I kiss those lips will I be able to talk as you do? :-*
What did you think about the fountainhead then?
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Sounds like a good read, gonna go pick it up this weekend.
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the fountainhead is atlus shrugged, but with more plot and a little more editorial discipline. it was, as tvc reminded me, written before rand formulated the tenets of objectivism, and has a few more humanistic considerations. it's still godawful crap, though.
seriously. you read ayn rand simply to round out your experience with popular american "social philosophy," and to level devastating critical barrages at rand's vocal big-L Libertarian fanboys, who comprise an astonishingly disproportionate percentage of useless web forum posters.
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demi, you don't read books. i'm not even sure you can read! i suspect my response appears to you as an apocryphal series of sans-serif glyphs, which you read right-to-left and which your internal monologue translates into "I LOVE BEAR COCK".
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Kinda.
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Yeah, I think the Fountainhead was just an attempt at making a glitzy literary novel, people grasped onto some ideas, and she made a second, even shittier novel that expanded on those shitty ideas in very intrusive ways (like 60 page monologues).
So basically Fountainhead is a bad novel; Atlas Shrugged is a bad philosophical treatsie crammed into a shitty novel.
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demi, you don't read books. i'm not even sure you can read! i suspect my response appears to you as an apocryphal series of sans-serif glyphs, which you read right-to-left and which your internal monologue translates into "I LOVE BEAR COCK".
:lol :lol :lol :lol
you read blank simply to round out your experience with popular blank, is pretty much the only reason I read the majority of what I read. I figure I need to become well read before just reading entirely for pleasure.
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So basically Fountainhead is a bad novel; Atlas Shrugged is a bad philosophical treatsie crammed into a shitty novel.
Cosign. Rand's storytelling prowess leaves MUCH to be desired.
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Ayn Rand is like Gwyneth Paltrow with an education.
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I'll wait for the movie
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Someone was reading The Fountainhead and told me that the main character reminds them of me. I am not sure what that means.
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Someone was reading The Fountainhead and told me that the main character reminds them of me. I am not sure what that means.
...ooooh.... :'(
I have only read little Rand. I tried, but gave up. Objectivism is just fuckin' mean, duders.