Author Topic: I want to blog my reading of ATLAS SHRUGGED (Read 1104 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** August 08, 2007, 04:37:09 PM »

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.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2007, 04:38:13 PM »

How many chapters are there? If it's 10 to 20, 1 entry/chapter would be fine.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2007, 05:52:58 PM »

I always wanted to read this.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2007, 05:54:43 PM »

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

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2007, 05:56:28 PM »

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.

TVC15 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2007, 05:56:52 PM »

I was really just looking for something to force myself to blog.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:04:45 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on August 08, 2007, 05:54:43 PM

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?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:09:41 PM »

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

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:13:08 PM »

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?

demi · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:20:50 PM »

Sounds like a good read, gonna go pick it up this weekend.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:20:55 PM »

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.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #11 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:22:32 PM »

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".

demi · « **Reply #12 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:24:13 PM »

Kinda.

TVC15 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:24:37 PM »

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.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #14 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:29:23 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on August 08, 2007, 06:22:32 PM

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".

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.

Cyanista · « **Reply #15 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:36:56 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on August 08, 2007, 06:24:37 PM

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.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2007, 06:46:27 PM »

Ayn Rand is like Gwyneth Paltrow with an education.

bagofeyes · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2007, 08:46:18 PM »

I'll wait for the movie

etiolate · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2007, 09:09:23 PM »

Someone was reading The Fountainhead and told me that the main character reminds them of me. I am not sure what that means.

y2kev · « **Reply #19 on:** August 08, 2007, 09:18:25 PM »

Quote from: etiolate on August 08, 2007, 09:09:23 PM

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.

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Author Topic: I want to blog my reading of ATLAS SHRUGGED (Read 1104 times)