Jazzfanz Bookclub

[Archie Moses]

I've read many discussions about it but I haven't actually read it.

Who would? That sucker is the size of a log that will burn in a campfire all night. It's longer than the original Buckner thread and Ron Jeremy's ....errrr... Ok, I won't go there.

 

[prodigy]

good but far too long, they should have cut the pages in half. thought they overexplained too much. made people sound inhuman.

learned the movie screenplay will be written by dan brown so it should be a lot better than previous movies

 

[PearlWatson]

Who would? That sucker is the size of a log that will burn in a campfire all night. It's longer than the original Buckner thread and Ron Jeremy's ....errrr... Ok, I won't go there.

a definite tl;dr candidate

 

[sirkickyass]

I've read many discussions about it but I haven't actually read it.

So is it possible that you're not familiar enough with the book to understand why an allegation that "Liberals love Railroads!" is ironic after someone says they've read Atlas Shrugged?

 

[TroutBum]

So is it possible that you're not familiar enough with the book to understand why an allegation that "Liberals love Railroads!" is ironic after someone says they've read Atlas Shrugged?

Please stop.

 

[VINYLONE]

Who would? That sucker is the size of a log that will burn in a campfire all night. It's longer than the original Buckner thread and Ron Jeremy's ....errrr... Ok, I won't go there.

It took me sooooooo long to read. And there was so much stuff that could have been done away with. Anyway, I forced myself to read it.

 

[LogGrad98]

So is it possible that you're not familiar enough with the book to understand why an allegation that "Liberals love Railroads!" is ironic after someone says they've read Atlas Shrugged?

I read it more than once. I even wrote a research paper/essay on it and was a finalist for the Ayn Rand scholarship in 1988. And you know what? I can't remember the plot, the story in general, any of the characters really other than Taggert and Galt. I mean yes I generally know what the book is about and understood how the themes fit within her own unique philosophy, but for me it just did not have staying power. I had to really think about what you said there before it clicked.

It took me sooooooo long to read. And there was so much stuff that could have been done away with. Anyway, I forced myself to read it.

This.



For the record, I liked the Fountainhead ok. It made me want to be an architect. =) I also liked The Virtue of Selfishness. I found her philosophy to be fascinating and much of it clicked with me. She was obviously very brilliant, but her writing style, particularly in her fiction, was hard to wade through. Working through my essay on Atlas Shrugged I learned something about Rand and it lead me to read more Aristotle and Nietzsche on my own since they were of import to her work.

I don't know, maybe I need to re-read Shrugged to see if the 20 intervening years make any difference.

Then again, I do have a copy of Watchmen sitting on my desk. Oh and Man vs Food is on tonight. Yeah maybe I won't read it.

 

[VINYLONE]

For the record, I liked the Fountainhead ok. It made me want to be an architect. =) I also liked The Virtue of Selfishness. I found her philosophy to be fascinating and much of it clicked with me. She was obviously very brilliant, but her writing style, particularly in her fiction, was hard to wade through. Working through my essay on Atlas Shrugged I learned something about Rand and it lead me to read more Aristotle and Nietzsche on my own since they were of import to her work.

I don't know, maybe I need to re-read Shrugged to see if the 20 intervening years make any difference.

Then again, I do have a copy of Watchmen sitting on my desk. Oh and Man vs Food is on tonight. Yeah maybe I won't read it.

****ing A, Log. I feel the same way. I absolutely loved The Fountainhead. To this day Howard Roark is one of my favorite literary characters. I also liked TVOS and thought it was misunderstood by many people. She WAS brilliant and her writing showed this, but she did tend to wander a lot...not to mention her issues with sex and sexuality came through in all of her writings.

IN regards to Atlas Shrugged, there were a few diatribes in it that completely endeared me to capitalism and what it means to practice it.

 

[PearlWatson]

So is it possible that you're not familiar enough with the book to understand why an allegation that "Liberals love Railroads!" is ironic after someone says they've read Atlas Shrugged?

I can see how an "all aboard" type of person might find it ironic.

 

[sirkickyass]

I can see how an "all aboard" type of person might find it ironic.

So no, you don't understand. Gotcha.

 

[PearlWatson]

So no, you don't understand. Gotcha.

LOL! If you say so.

 

[Archie Moses]

Here's a cool steampunk blog that's given me some ideas on the next read.

https://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/

I'm currently reading.