Who is John Galt?

Anybody know?

 

He's a character from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

 

le sigh.... who is John Galt?...

 

i don't know

yout tell me

 

I expected to wait longer for that one. 'Grats.

Have you read it?

 

they are making a movie.

 

Long time ago. But I am no fan of Ayn Rand. She was also the mistress of Phillipe Rothschild.

 

Hate that bitch.

 

I agree with some of her ideas, but I certainly can't go in for her overall philosophy.

 

my boyfriend

 

i believe angelina jolie is making this into a movie

 

A lot of people say that. Is she worth reading at all other than just to see how much of an asshole she is?

 

I dunno. I tried reading it twice, it was a bore.

 

its hella long. i picked it up once

 

its actually worth it if you finish reading it.... but few actually do just that so i think it weeds out the impatients or the morons or something. but i've never met someone who has finished it so i never considered anyone a better authority on the book than I. not that if you dont finish you're a moron, cuz it is really boring for the first three to four hundred pages.

a good airplane read if you've got a few 6 hour flights, train rides, bus trips all strung together.

 

funny to see this...ive been reading it for about two-three months...almost halfway through...its hard to keep going with when constantly bogged down with school and the end seems so far off....but I like it, which I find unusual...its changed my opinions on some subjects, which I never thought would happen

 

I enjoyed The Fountainhead quite a bit, so I figured I'd try out Atlas. I don't really find that it's terribly boring. But it's a philosophical thing, really; if you're reading for a story or for believable characters, you might become bored. In her books, every person represents an ideal; or more correctly, half the people represent one ideal, and half represent the opposite. The characters can seem a bit flat.