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>> No.11157967

>>11157962
Rand levels, so about 81

>> No.11157968

it will decrease from its already low level

>> No.11157975

Memes aside, can someone explain why this board thinks that this is a shit book?

>> No.11157978

>bought this 2 years ago
>picked it up from my shelf yesterday
>1100+ pages
>put it back on the shelf

>> No.11157990

>>11157975
read it and find out

>> No.11158010

>>11157975
Overwrought prose and an endlessly didactic authorial voice render it joyless and condescending; a set of problems massively worsened by the book's ridiculous length.

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>>11158010
>have a depressed friend
>he reads this book
>he's not depressed anymore and has a new lease on life
>credits it to this book

Explain this.

>> No.11158083

>>11158010
and endlessly didactic authorial voice which spouts a retarded philosophy*

>> No.11158084

>>11158070
>retards respond to retarded things that affirm their retardation positively
woah

>> No.11158087

>>11158070
>be depressed brainlet
>read book for depressed brainlets
>not depressed anymore

>> No.11158088

The book is extremely repetitive, boring, and the message was already more than adequately told in the fountainhead, which was great

>> No.11158108

>>11158010
What other great novels even are there to read in english other than moby-dick?

>> No.11158797

>>11158088
Like a longer version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus?

>> No.11159116
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>>11157962
Honestly it's one of the greatest books ever written.

>> No.11159292

>>11158070
She's the Jordan Peterson of the 20th century, perfect for disenfranchised rightwingers who secretly believe they are talented and capable.

>> No.11159305

>>11159292
Echoing

>> No.11159326

Personally I thought 'The Fountainhead" was a much better book. Her philosophy was much more reticulated, and story not so drawn out. Plus, it's got a bit of a romance novel intertwined.

>> No.11160210

>>11159326
But Atlas Shrugged is at least a third bodice ripper.

>> No.11160244

>>11157962
Only plasmids will increase your IQ.

>> No.11160746

>>11158108
>Everything Joyce ever wrote
>Everything Pynch ever wrote
>Salinger's novels
>Bellow's novels
>Conrad's novels
>Middlemarch
>Austen's novels
ffs Harold Bloom, the patron saint of /lit/, has a long list of great books organized by time period and language. you have no excuse.

>> No.11161067

>>11158010
Ah, so it's the jewish messiah complex.

>> No.11161078

>>11159292
It’s like you know me.

>> No.11161209

>>11157962

post rare rands

>> No.11161448

>>11157962
it unironically takes a very high IQ to appreciate Ayn Rand. You must be a parasite/moocher/looter

>> No.11161605

>>11159292
THIS

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>>11157962
Rand is full babbling nonsense that oversimplifies society and the world, where only the elite creators of stuff have any worth and the rabble everyone else leaches off. Except for the fact that she happily accepted Medicare and Social Security herself, funded by those same rabble because reasons. A Russian emigre with daddy issues and a fucked up worldview...yeah we need more of those telling us how society should be.

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>>11161643

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>>11161652

>> No.11161681

>>11161643
>>11161652
>>11161662
>complaining about oversemplification while posting oversemplicating comics
holy...

>> No.11161697

>>11157975
It's very biased, to a comedic level

>> No.11161701

>>11161643
After all the hate that Atlas Shrugged gets, I get excited to read it. I will definitely order it in my next stack of books.

>> No.11161730

>>11161643
>she happily accepted Medicare and Social Security
Not happily and only because she was taxed for it.

>> No.11161830

>>11157962
I never saw such a novel near-worshiping on Rationalism, Capitalism, Effort - prioritization.
although It has tons of words, I reached one third of it, so I can happily pre-conclude this 'struggle'.
like WTF what kind of fucking moron read this

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>>11157962
>Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

>> No.11161836

I want to ask US people about this literature. how the fuck this can be your best-seller and best-philosophy book? isn't it too "capitalism" to even on your perspective?

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>>11157975
It's basically pic related stretched out for 1200 tedious pages. You get the point very quickly, but the book just keeps going and going for no reason.

>> No.11161966

Rosenbaum took the ideas from this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_To_Be_Done%3F_(novel) and turned it into something totally opposite.

>> No.11161991

>>11161836
>too "capitalism"

Do you not realize how capitalistic the US is? Our only major political parties are capitalistic and even the majority of our so-called leftists only focus on social issues because capitalism is taken for granted. Centrist politicians are routinely accused of being socialists. Cold War propaganda was extremely effective.