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17137766 No.17137766 [Reply] [Original]

It's funny but also kind of embarrassing how nobody here read much beyond what was compulsory in their english class, yet you decide to base your whole personality around it.

>> No.17138125

? No one read AS in school.

Side note, most critics of AS have never read it. It's a genuinely good book and parts of Rand's ethos regarding modern society being held up by a minority of great people is indisputable.

>> No.17138158

>>17137766
>>17138125
>YOU DON'T READ
>posts garbage
cringe

>> No.17138160

>>17137766
I suggested this in my local book club as a joke. Organizer took me serious. Only 3 people besides us read and came to it the next meeting and one was a very pissed off young woman.

>> No.17139042

>>17138125
So you read this shitty book as an act of rebellion, good job. I bet your other favourites include catcher in the rye and the trial.

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>>17139042
>So you read this shitty book as an act of rebellion, good job. I bet your other favourites include catcher in the rye and the trial.
This unironically.

>> No.17139080

>>17139069
This is the lit equivalent of listing Fight Club as your favourite movie.

>> No.17139370

>>17138125
I tried to read Fountainhead and could only make it halfway through, literally the worst writing I have ever read. Unbelievably bad. Turgid and base, not a single hint of art or light, not a single well crafted sentence, just endless banalities and characters with no interiority or human emotion.
That so many people in this country flock to what is obviously the masturbatory fantasies of a sociopath is pretty revelatory about the state of America.

>> No.17139388

>>17139370
>That so many people in this country flock to what is obviously the masturbatory fantasies of a sociopath is pretty revelatory about the state of America.
Couldn't have said it better

>> No.17139391

>>17139080
What’s wrong with Fight Club?

>> No.17139408

>>17139391
Nothing at all, but it's hard to believe that it'd still be someone's favourite movie after actually delving deeper into the world of cinema.

>> No.17139411

>>17139370
>>17139388
But they don’t. Lolbergs are the only people who read Rand. Libtards hate her for pointing out useless they and their pets are and conservacucks have to disavow her atheism if they want to make any progress.

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>>17138125
It's for you, anon.

>> No.17141183

>>17137766
Tbh I'd take the pseuds who think they're well read because they've heard of Murakami over the lolberts that treat reading Atlas Shrugged like a personality trait. At least the pseud isn't likely to be a pedo.

>> No.17141214

>>17139391
Nothing. Anyone who says it's their favourite movie hasn't really watched a lot of movies, though. Or they're just getting into cinema

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>>17138125
Oh, believe me, most critics have at least attempted. I read the entire book when I was 15 and autistic and a narcissist. I'm still a narcissist now, but lemme tell you, I hated that fucking book within 12 months of finishing it. It's legitimately the worst book I have ever completed, and the only reason I powered through was because it idolizes selfishness and 15-y-o me thought I was a future robber-baron. I could excerpt any speech from Dagny, Hank, John, Francisco, or that pirate faggot, and without looking it up, you would not be able to tell me which character spoke those lines. All of these characters are interchangeable. The book is pure ideology.

>> No.17142352

>>17137766
i read Atlas Shrugged for the first time during the lockdowns. I'm a tad new to /lit/ so is this book liked or hated?

I liked it for the most part. I have my criticisms of parts of the book but I read it more as a warning against the type of mediocrity we're seeing so prevalent in our culture right now.

>> No.17142685

>>17138125

oh you mean rand offered an utterly shit repackaging of nietzsche for her dumb herd animal peers? what a revelation

>> No.17142743

>>17138125
>Side note, most critics of AS have never read it.

Big ole [CITATION NEEDED] on that

>> No.17142747

>>17137766
>deciding to base your personality
>personality based on what you read and not the other way around

you are completely retarded. Please be quiet or leave.

>> No.17142757

>>17138125
It insists upon itself.

>> No.17142762

>>17141183
Kek. Tru

>> No.17142775

A lot more people here are clearly wider read than elsewhere on the internet unless you're looking at blogs written by individuals or specific academic communities
Those are the only other places you could reasonably expect people to even be vaguely aware of most of the books that are discussed here regularly
There are plenty of retarded shitposters, but if you'd been on 4chan any longer than the 2016 election you would already know how to notice and ignore them

>> No.17142813

I read the Fountainhead and AS this year and I enjoyed them. I thought they were very empowering. I don't get the rabid hate people have for Rand and her ideas.

>> No.17142932

>>17142813
usually faggots women and commies hate her. So everyone on /lit/?

>> No.17143245

>>17139370
Unfathomably based take. AS was so dreadful, the characters so shallow, the writing so appalling I couldn't finish it either.

>> No.17143649

>>17139370
This but for Harry potter

>> No.17144126

>>17139370
you’re absolutely correct anon. what you don’t want to acknowledge, however, is that these things are the case precisely because the author was a woman

>> No.17144206

>>17142813
I don't even care about her ideas, and agree the writing was a bit sloppy, but they were fun to read desu.

>> No.17145865

>>17137766
People tell me that my book taste is what highschoolers in the US get made to read. I just like classic American literature

>> No.17145974

I got about 200 pages in before I had to give up because the writing was so awful. Weirdly, I enjoyed The Fountainhead, though. I probably just didn’t like AS because it was really just a rehashing of The Fountainhead, and also obviously because I thought the quality of her writing had declined.