/lit/ - Literature

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.

I don't like women books, but this one seems to be liked here.

I've liked 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 a bit less.
Is it comparable to 1984 and Brave New World ?

>giant golden man has trouble climbing the industrial revolution.

>John Aglialoro, the producer of the movie adaptation of the classic Ayn Rand novel “Atlas Shrugged,” hinted that part three of the movie trilogy might be made as a musical.

>“But you know, part three could be a musical…like a Les Miserables kind of a musical,” said Aglialoro. “That’s part of the impact and I guess I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m looking at it completely different if part three is a musical with quality music that’s done in a certain way that people will like.

What's your favorite novel/novella?

>>1563179

>At last I shrugged

I like - objectivism is now YOUR bitch

"Atlas Shrugged".

...?

Surely it should be, "Atlas, Shrugged".

THE MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!\

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EVERYONE IS HOLDING ME BACK WHAT A BUNCH OF STUPID SHEEPLE

I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side

You just have to bring it up.

>>1461729

Great novel though

I was reading The Captive Mind in the college hallway for a bit when a teacher came by and saw what I was reading. She mentioned she's hosting a book club in the school and invited me to come read with everybody.
They'll be starting Atlas Shrugged first in class.
Now I don't know anything about the book nor Ayn Rand. Anything I should know coming into this?

I've got this book in my hand. Right now.
I'm even typing with 1 hand as to make my claims true.

Convince me not to read this book

So, what does /lit/ think of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"?
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Atlas Shrugged
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Problem, /lit/?

One question just to satisfy my curiousity, if i may.
Are Ayn Rend's works (atlas shrugged specifically) studied in american schools or colleges or universities?
I'm from germany hence couldn't possibly know.

Buy him that book. He'll like it. It changed my life.

Thoughts? As an opening to a story of suicide?:

She is always already dead when the first calls start arriving. The sky outside my bedroom is a disgusting, lurid orange, and she is always already dead. Her heart has already stopped. She has already lost too much blood. She is dead. But I know the truth: she died long ago. Long before the hand of some pretended loved one sent electrons speeding towards my ear. Long before the IV's and blood transfusions and sirens ringing out in the obscene heaviness of the early southern dawn. Her center has fallen through and the world is a black box--swiftly reflecting the final moments of her life's descent for all to analyze.

And analyze they do, the shrinks, the "friends," the lovers, and there are many, each with his, or her as the case sometimes was, own theory of moral sentiments. Each with their own impressions, agendas, attentions. Ohh how she fawned under all of them, the most elusive prey--instantly malleable.

So...... what's the deal with this book?