/lit/ - Literature

>Uh, you value your self-interests? Greedy capitalist
What would Rand say to her contemporary critics?

>>20621327
Pic related

>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
How do Rand fans respond?

Have you read it?

What did you get out of it?

Who is John Galt?

Aaron Rodgers mentioned on Monday Night Football tonight that he is reading Atlas Shrugged, amidst his best, most controversial season in years.

I've had a copy of it for some time. Is it worth spending a month reading?

When does this stop sucking

>>19608720
I was planning to finish this before the end of the year but I'm only at page 200 something so this will take me a little longer :(

>>19532218
I'm reading atlas shrugged rn. I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the year.

Right now I'm only on page 122 so lets hope I muster some motivation the coming days to read more.

It's not even the politics, or the philosophy of the book that bothers me. It's the torturous length. The endless over-explained similes. The stilted unnatural dialogue. The interminable speeches. The anime-style introspective pauses punctuating every line of a conversation. The entire chapters of thinly-veiled "what annoyed Ayn Rand today" rants. Every character is barely human, nobody tells a single joke in six hundred thousand words. I can't finish it. It's too shit.
I could make it through The Fountainhead, because the first part was actually pretty good, but this is just a tedious turd right from the first page.

This is just 1000 pages of that thing you do in the shower where you spin up a fantasy argument with a retard and BTFO them with your superior debate skills

What book is not nearly as deep as the fanbase likes to believe?

Thoughts? Is it worth it?

What are some good books to read in public that will make me appear intelligent to other people?

Worth a read if I'm not a rabid capitalist?

Just picked this one up.
What am I in for?

>chick writer of highest level
>"You guise I am different from all the other girls, I am ao much smarter I am basically a guy!"
>"Anyway, this is the type of guy I like: *insert vapid stereotype* teehee"
Why are woman writers always like this? Even at the highest level they may strew in some interesring thoughts before immediately going back to how they are different from other girls (sooo much smarter) and fantasizing about some Chad stereotype.
Seriously, name a female writer that doesn't do this.
Pic related is just the most blatant example.

Serious question

Why does fit not recommend this book?
I recently bought it and am maybe one of the handful of people in Balkans who have it

Why do you dislike it?
Except for le epic
>Nuuuu she is Jew woman bla bla I'm 4channel gamer

It's honestly a good read,I'm 150 pages in so far and it's really captivating.
Any other books like it?

What am I in for?

Not schizophrenia but this author was mentally retard

Finished The Fountainhead last week and plan to finish Atlas Shrugged by the end of this one; where should I go from here?

I'm surprised that Ayn Rand hasn't been mentioned yet. What do you guys think of her?

Scarlet Letter a good close second.

>>14592720
Middle, ignore right, go for left if middle is too expensive.

Hey, this isn't so bad. Decent prose and comfy descriptions of trains. I wonder what the big hubbub is all abou--
>Taggart sat looking down at his desk. She wondered why he resented the necessity of dealing with Rearden, and why his resentment had such an odd, evasive quality. Rearden Steel had been the chief supplier of Taggart Transcontinental for ten years, ever since the first Rearden furnace was fired, in the days when their father was president of the railroad. For ten years, most of their rail had come from Rearden Steel. There were not many firms in the country who delivered what was ordered, when and as ordered. Rearden Steel was one of them. If she were insane, thought Dagny, she would conclude that her brother hated to deal with Rearden because Rearden did his job with superlative efficiency; but she would not conclude it, because she thought that such a feeling was not within the humanly possible.
>“It isn’t fair,” said James Taggart.
>“What isn’t?”
>"That we always give all our business to Rearden. It seems to me we should give somebody else a chance, too. Rearden doesn’t need us; he’s plenty big enough. We ought to help the smaller fellows to develop. Otherwise, we’re just encouraging a monopoly.”
>“Don’t talk tripe, Jim.”
Oh god, I still have 900 pages of this to go.