/lit/ - Literature

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OP, the book you posted is great, imo. I read it in high school and loved it.

>this, on the other hand...

Dear God....Atlas Shrugged is all true.

Those in power are divided into two groups-The brilliant people who are actually good at what they do, and the leechers who con their way to the top, and keep fucking up progressing to solidify their positions: the hypocritical bastards who are good liars and terrible cheaters who exploit the great thinkers and doers of our time.


Fuck...It's all true! Engineers and Scientists should be the ones in charge, not bleeding heart hypocrites.

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What do you think about Atlas Shrugged?

So my nigger teacher wants us to read Ann Rand. I've heard some shit about Atlas Shrugged on the Colbert Report, and it sounds stupid as fuck.
I'm supposed to write a 250 word synopsis about this piece of shit, anybody want to summarize?

hey /lit/, what's your favourite children's book

pic is mine

well it's more young adult, sort of in between the two.

Why does this book get so much hate again?

Ok, so...
I recently started reading this book. I live in a very liberal part of the US and am quite liberal myself. I'm reading it because Rand seems like a fascinating person to me and I want to understand her and the discussion surrounding her better. Whenever people see that I'm reading Atlas Shrugged, they almost invariably have quite negative reactions. Even people who have known me for years seem to think I'm turning into an Objectivist douchebag (I'm not, even though I'm enjoying the book) and I have to convince them otherwise. It seems to me that hardly anyone has a neutral opinion of Ayn Rand; everyone who's heard of her either loves her or hates her. One friend of mine even called her "worse than Hitler" (?). So without meaning to start a giant shitstorm (which may well happen anyway), my question is this: why all the hate, and why all the love of Ayn Rand? Why can't people just calmly observe her work and her life without going to extremes in one direction or another? I feel like if I was reading Mien Kampf or The Communist Manifesto people wouldn't immediately assume I'm a Nazi/Communist. Why is it different for Atlas Shrugged?

Hated this book so much. Can someone explain why they like it?

Just finished this book a few days ago after I was in my high-school lit class and someone said it was the best book ever. I pretty much agree with everything she says. Anyone else read it? And any other recommendations as I don't read that much

>"I'll take 'Shitty Books that Stupid People Read Thinking it Would Make Them Smart' for a hundred, Alex."