Wait until you run into the first asshat who claims to have read Atlas Shrugged, and then quotes this article.
You'll KNOW they are lying, and they will point to the article.
THAT one is always fun. When you take the time to FORCE the truth down their throat, they still think the lie they told about having actually read it, was ok.
Thanks Ceit Butler, I was on my way to make a decision to start reading books, and now that you bring that up, fuck it, I won't read books :P
Read Books = BEING
Write books = HAVING
I THINK you should write a book Ceit, and so do I :D
...the point was that you SHOULD read books.
Read, think and interpret for yourself, rather than blindly believing such bullshit, hidden-agenda articles that are clearly written by douche-bags with rich benefactors!
1084 pages, I'm 501 in :D
And as I said, it's making me angry. This is not a new book. And it's a title that gets tossed around a lot.
Almost any conversation regarding books with an important social message will at some point mention two, if not all three of the following:
George Orwell's "1984", Phillip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth", and Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
People are fond of discussing these books and the points they make , but how many then take that knowledge and compare it to the world they live in?
It's fashionable to discuss these things in groups, much less so to refrain from settling one's rose-coloured glasses firmly back into place, before facing reality again.
I almost pulled the trigger on a Philip K. Dick box set the other week, maybe I will pick it up. Need a break from law books. His books make the best movies ;-)
I know I am PERFECTLY "in line" about what has been taught in here....
"MAJORITY is always wrong" and who reads books seems to be MAJORITY, and who writes them seems to be MINORITY :P
Shit am I EVER deep on this rainy sunday :D
And for a 3 easy payment of $109.99, the "IN LINE" book will be delivered right at your door.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! .....ok, I shut it up now....keep going :/
We'll discuss all this at my next SEMINAR :D
No, the MAJORITY will read articles discussing the books, (such as the one that started this thread), and will accept these opinions as fact.
The MINORITY will actually READ THE BOOKS THEMSELVES, and form their OWN opinions.
If you say so Ceit Butler, but I really think the very small minority will WRITE these books .....but hey, you know me !!! How often I miss the point is talking to itself.... :D
Nowadays, Atlas Shrugged and similar modern literature is reviewed in the same way Christians "review" their Bible.; They speak as experts and don't ACTUALLY READ THE FUCKING BOOK!
They then lie, when you point out the reality, by saying "you're taking that out of context".
...at this point the discussion is best handled by bitch-slapping the speaker of such bullshit.
The Moderators won't approve my comment on the actual article, so I sent it privately to Alternet themselves.
"Tsk, tsk, Alternet...you should be hanging your head in shame."
:p