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22171138 No.22171138 [Reply] [Original]

when does it get good?

>> No.22172176

>>22171138

I liked the train accident part.

>> No.22172340

I found it pretty good. The easy prose flowns clearly. There is the fundamental passage that takes about fifty pages and it is worthy it.

It is just too darn long for its own sake

>> No.22172346

>>22171138
Never, I'm afraid.

>> No.22172352

>>22171138
I don't know, why are you reading it? Is it because of some commie girl? Do you want to shit on it with her or whatever? I thought it was an ok book, but I was paying attention to how she constructed the whole thing.

>> No.22172365

>>22172352
I fell for a meme once again because of /lit/, that's why

>> No.22172367

it doesnt

>> No.22172370

>>22172365
I thought it was an ok read, that monologue was somewhat annoying, but I agree with that other anon that the book is too long. This book would be good if it was written by Ray Bradbury.

>> No.22172374

>>22171138
Somewhere around the end. Read the entire book and you will understand the hidden meaning.

>> No.22172513

>>22171138
When they tell Atlas to shrug

>> No.22172549

>>22172513
when Atlas says "it's shruggin' time" and shrugs all over the place I nearly jizzed in my pants

>> No.22172583

>>22172176
It felt like she was really taking delight in writing in detail why each and every single one of these people deserved to die. Kinda creepy, but kinda great, too.

>> No.22172607
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22172607

>>22172340
I think it is the weakest of the three major Rand novels, but it's very interesting nonetheless. I find it unique in how Rand tries to see and bring out the heroic in the bourgeois (as opposed to just having a bourgeois that is heroic), and I think she was majorly successful in the task, considering the broad appeal Atlas managed to have. Just for that I think it's worth reading, from a literary point of view. She's also very good at structuring her novels, people talk about the size but it never felt like anything in the book was superfluous, not even the speeches. The main weakness I feel is that the book often comes across as quite hysterical at some points, giving more meaning to mundane elements than necessary, but that's more of a fault of Rand's philosophy than her literary exposition of it.

All in all, I don't regret reading it. Rand is underrated as a novelist.

>> No.22173074

>>22172549
reddit

>> No.22173086

it doesnt, thats the entire point.

>> No.22173123

>>22171138
>when does it get good?
Anon, I...

>> No.22173127

>>22171138
This is the kind of book that >>22168913
was talking about. It is not even that good, but it does inspire SOME people into action. I'm not particularly fond of it, but yeah, I definitely understood that quite quickly in the book. I could definitely feel the vibe it would pass to certain types of people.

>> No.22173130

>>22173127
And my point is that maybe you are too stupid to read it like me (don't worry about that, it took me a lot of time/effort to get where I am) and also that book isn't exactly for you. It isn't particularly for me either.

>> No.22173131

>>22171138
p107 sentence 9