has anyone read "atlas shrugged" by ayn rand ??(im not sure if thats her last name but it sounds like it) i just started reading it and it seems pretty good--but its long as hell.....thanx for your input
On a few different occasions I've attempted to read Atlas Shrugged, and every time I've bailed after maybe a couple hundred pages. I just can't get into it, which strikes me as weird considering that The Fountainhead is one of my all-time favorite books. Maybe it's from reading The Fountainhead first that I was so bored with Atlas Shrugged. I felt like I'd already gotten the gist of what Ayn Rand was trying to say.
Atlas Shrugged is a must read. And also Fountainhead. Ayn Rand is one of the most revealing writers of the 20th century. Unconsciously and unintentionally, Ayn freely reveals through her heroines, both her own deep rooted sado-masochism, and the deep perverted sexual impulses behind Hierarchical Capitalism Ayn, rejected as ugly by our Sexual Hierarchy, reveals through her fictional heroines, her own phantasies of being a Prime-female sexually-desired by the Hierarchy's Alpha-males. Ayn reveals the Collectivism of Capitalism, as we ant-like insects organize in the business of Primate Sexual Hierarchy. Ayn reveals all these hairy smelly goings-on while remaining completely clueless. Perfect Stream of Consciousness, unintentional and spontaneous.
No one wants to comment on one of the most important and influencial book and author of the 20th century. We just had the Republican National Convention; isn't anyone interested in the Capitalist roots of their ideology. Indeed, the ideology of the vast majority of Democrats as well. The New World Order of Reaganomics comes from Milton Freedman who was a direct disciple of Capitalist Guru Ayn Rand. Read it, you'll be amazed. It's all there if you read between the lines.
when i was was 18 or so i freaked out on ayn rand and read several of her books. atlas shrugged was one of them, but its been so long i forget which storyline it is. The one that sticks with me is "we the living". its not so much a platform for a philosophy as it is just a damn good character study of people trying to live under the communists in russia. kira argonouva, yeah. also her first book i think. beyond that i'm too out of touch with her to comment.
