/lit/ - Literature

>>4841921
The Hobbit got me into fun reading, and Anthem got me into deeper stuff, it really opened my eyes and made me question the shit out of the authority I worshiped, and that just spurred me on to find if there was anything else that could teach me something like Anthem.
And then I read Atlas Shrugged and found out that Rand's Objectivism is less "Power to the individual, do what you want, make yourself happy, follow your dreams, no matter what anyone says, and let no one keep you down!" and more "Be a selfish twat, take everything and share nothing, death to the weak".
It was really sad, but I still like the idea at its core. Can one be a light Objectivist?

The book’s most striking feature, both stylistically and in the substance of the story, is the absence of the first-person singular. The idea of a totalitarian state suppressing subversive ideas by banning or distorting the language needed to express or even formulate it has been made generally familiar by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its fictional language, “Newspeak”; but Rand’s treatment precedes Orwell’s by more than a decade (and may possibly have influenced it).

In Rand’s dystopia, the first-person singular pronoun — the word “I” — has been abolished in order to prevent people from thinking of themselves as individuals with identities distinct from that of the collective. The struggle of Equality 7-2521 (Rand modeled her characters’ names on telephone exchanges of the “Pennsylvania 6-5000” form) to discover his own individuality is mirrored in his, and the text’s, struggle to move from “we” to “I.”

…If the book’s linguistic center is the first-person pronoun, its imaginal center is light — the guttering candlelight of the collectivist dystopia, contrasted with the electric light that the protagonist reinvents, the latter symbolizing the fire that Prometheus of Greek myth stole to give to the human race, and, consequently, symbolizing as well the creative fire of the unfettered individual mind.

Although I liked Atlas Shrugged more, this was a far, far easier read.

hey /lit/ post a song that matches a book. wether it has to do with something deep from the book or something on the surface

anthem
words that we couldnt say - seatbelts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHHIVMJ_VQ

so im reading this shit and so far its blah blah self is better than society blah blah does it ever get good? im about 60 pages in

Okay /lit/ tell me the truth, what do you think of this book? I just got it from the library and it sounds intriguing, and i'm not a hipster...no trolls, please?

What's your favorite book? this is mine.

this pile of shit covered pages

"I know not if this Earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on Earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happinesss is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."

I really hate how Rand trolls have pretty much ruined her reputation on /lit/. I'm sure 99% of the Rand debaters have read anything but Atlas Shrugged

Hey /lit/, why are dystopias (Like 1984, Anthem and The Hunger Games) so popular?