God this book is so boring, has anyone else read it? Does anything start to happen?
God this book is so boring, has anyone else read it? Does anything start to happen?
I guess you'll have to read it to find out.
not really, towards the end they start killing people though. i think they try to create some great society of supergeniuses after they wreck everything else. it's all hazy memories of a lousy book.
It's Ayn Rand. Here is your plot: communism is evil, totalitarianism sucks, and Joe McCarthy is a savior of America. Go HUAC!
I'm getting through her earlier book, the fountainhead, just fine. I havn't encountered anticommunism in it yet, but rather an attack on group=think.
yeah, she does have a tendency towards individualism, the strength of the individual. wouldn't you be able to get that concept from the experience of being a runner?
Yes, I do get that from being a runner...I was wondering, thanks.
jaja wrote:
God this book is so boring, has anyone else read it? Does anything start to happen?
Don't shrug; try to push through it. It sounds like you are near the beginning; as it develops it gets very interesting. Rand is a great story-teller, no matter how you feel about her philosophically. Then again, maybe you just don't like her writing style.
Had to read the book in my econ class in college then write a ten page review of it.
To this day, I still find "Atlas Shrugged" to be one of the most boring books that I have ever read.
I'm a history major and graduate student so I've read a lot of history books that have no plot and are not made to entertain yet that book still is the most boring piece of junk I've ever read.
The idea that she is trying to portray is not bad. However, the author is just a terrible writer.
The storyline is so jumbled and incoherent that the reader gets lost just trying to figure out what the author is saying and who the main character is in love with next.
That said the Fountainhead is a little bit better BUT NOT MUCH. I truly feel sorry for you if you are forced to read this 1200 page book that never seems to end.
Sorry for the rant. I still have nightmares about reading that book and writing a paper on it. :-)
was forced to read BNW in high school, never reading rynd again
its a good book, not necessarily from its content, but because its sort of a showcase of how one is supposed to think about things.
lets say I wanted smart liberals to say in the lower income class...
I would simply create enviromentalist/gaylesbiantrans/communist/atheist groups that would absorb their time and effort, rather than having them rise in the income ladder and change things. I would also start political movements to blunt their voting power as well. Divide and conquer. If the sheeple are too busy worrying about fluffy things like homosexuals, instead of the real issues like oil conservation and apocalyptic disease outbreaks, well then you've done your job. can't complain.
its worked very well and will continue to work very well.
'Atlas Shrugged" actually has a decent plot. The secret is to detect when you are entering one of the characters' lengthy sermons and then skip the next 30-or so pages until you return to the story.
If this is for school and you need to know the 'messages' then I'm sorry but you are pretty much screwed.
Strange how novels having the word "Atlas" in the title are
in some ways a bit bizarre. When i first read Cloud Atlas, i nearly googled to see if i was the only one missing page 40 (or whatever) then you read on and see that there is a basic plot joining the disjointed episodes together.
these books are intended to confuse the reader.
not for the faint of heart, you have to be a real person with ambition and dedication to read and understand those books. Even then you don't. They're good books because the authors who wrote them worked incredibly hard to do so.
Peep this wrote:
these books are intended to confuse the reader.
not for the faint of heart, you have to be a real person with ambition and dedication to read and understand those books. Even then you don't. They're good books because the authors who wrote them worked incredibly hard to do so.
The books are really not that hard to understand. I believe most Juniors and Seniors in an honors or AP class could understand what is being said.
However, they are just plain boring books that are horribly written and should not be used in a classroom setting because you will turn students off to reading. :-)
jaja wrote:
Does anything start to happen?
Eventually they get on a raft and head south on the river. They meet a lot of interesting people, including 2 guys who claim to be a duke and a king. As they go south they have to do some tricks to hide n***** Jim. At the very end one of the main characters shows up in what is a bit of a coincidence and all live happily ever after.
Who is John Galt?
I also had trouble getting through Atlas Shrugged but The Fountainhead is a gem. Gotta love Howard Roark.
i've not looked at Atlas Shrugged -yet.
David Mitchell is certainly an excellent writer,Cloud Atlas is a good work,but if you're not expecting the way he's written it ,it's somewhat disconcerting.Anyone else read it?
You may have more appreciation for this book as you get older. I didn't have to read it in high school or college, so I never read it until I was 36. But I've read it twice since then and I find it fascinating.
If there are two types of people out there - leaders and followers - then my guess is that the leaders would devour this book, and the followers would really struggle with it. But it certainly makes a lot more sense once you've been out in the working world for a little while. Reading it in business school is probably a great idea, but in high school or undergrad is probably a waste of time.
You should read Francisco's speech on money even if you don't finish the rest of it, however.
you think it's boring now, wait until you get to the ONE HUNDRED PAGE radio monologue.