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It seems to me that among US readers, Ayn Rand is a big deal, far more so than in Europe (I've never been able to finish Atlas Shrugged, found it terribly dull, sorry). What's the English equivalent of Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead - the book that everyone reads in that sort of pretentious teen/early twenties phase?

I was thinking maybe George Orwell?, but I don't think he has the reach and impact on younger people, and certainly doesn't attract such passionate adherents.

And I'm not trolling Rand fans, I'm just curious.

What's the defining English novel that blows your mind when you're a teenager?

>> No.1555669

1984, though this is a very stupid thing to think about.

>> No.1555674

>>1555669

That's OK - I'm cool with you not thinking about it and going and doing something else.

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>>1555666
double trips, holy shit.

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>mfw people think 'subtlety' to the point of no provocation at all is the way to troll

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Why would Britfags read books when they have so much good television?

>> No.1555890

>>1555883
ugh disgusting. i really hate channel 4 indie socialite students they make me feel ill and they have fun and i feel sick.

bbc is the only good tv channel.

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>>1555890

Yeah well, Buzzcocks is probably more entertaining when you're an Amerifat and have no idea who most of the people are.

>> No.1555903

>>1555890
The only bad thing about channel 4 is that it has adverts. Having said that, the only good thing about the BBC is that it doesn't have adverts.

>> No.1555905

I don't think there is an English equivalent of Atlas Shrugged.

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>>1555890

>good
>tv

>> No.1555912

I read 1984 for school as a teenager, and enjoyed it more than any of the other books we were made to read except To Kill a Mockingbird. Read it again recently and it didn't have the same impact.

But I fucking love Homage to Catalonia.

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>>1555911
>>1555911

>> No.1555924

Lord of the Rings. You see 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.

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My screenshot folder is full of Britfag television, porn, and Britfag television that I masturbate to. What does that say about me?

Bumping thread due to OP's dubtrips and a genuine desire to know the answer to OP's question.

>> No.1555940

In our GCSE's (In Britain) we have to read either To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Great Expectations and a few others. So these are the kind of books that teenagers read to become pseudointellectuals. The worst hipsters read more American fiction (Catcher in the Rye, Huck Finn). Sadface.

>> No.1555945

>>1555940

>GCSE's
>'s
>'

british education = shit.

>> No.1555957

>>1555924
Strong posting from this Anon.

>> No.1555963

>>1555945

Apologies, I do it as a habit (And I got remedial English Language lessons, fuck yeah)