Anybody here read Ayn Rand's book "Atlas shrugged"?

[M. Sage]

Here you go:

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Sweet! I can't wait for payday!

 

[grasshopperglock]

Holy cat crap on a bent stick. Thrown at the wall!!!

Mr obama's "you didn't build that" ......is in the damn book.

The part where, Jim Taggart rambles to the girl from the dime store about Hank Rearden's invention of Rearden Steel.

Jim- "He couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal? Why does he thinks it's his?"

Dime store girl- "But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make that Metal, but Mr Rearden Did?"


This book is SPOOKY.

 

[navyguy]

I thought the movie was poor. Rather like amateur night. What killed it for me was the poor portrayal of the Dagny character. I think the actress totally missed the mark there. And Francisco D'Anconia wasn't a lot better. Rearden was played well, as were his wife and mother. They seemed to capture the look of vapiristic leaching evil that Rand portrays in her book. But given that Dagny is the central character of the story, if you mess that up (and IMO, it was BADLY messed up) then it makes for a poor story on the screen. I'll probably see parts 2 and 3 (if 3 ever gets made) just to see if they improve. As I understand, Part 1 was filmed on an extremely tight timeline. Still, that doesn't excuse the shoddy portrayal of Dagny

I've read the book and think that is a spot on assessment of the part one movie. Dagny needed to be a strong women. An actress like Meryl Streep (if she was better looking) could do the part justice. I also didn't like Franciso or Eddie Willers, who was not black in the book.[h=4][/h]

 

[XinTX]

Holy cat crap on a bent stick. Thrown at the wall!!!

Mr obama's "you didn't build that" ......is in the damn book.

The part where, Jim Taggart rambles to the girl from the dime store about Hank Rearden's invention of Rearden Steel.

Jim- "He couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal? Why does he thinks it's his?"

Dime store girl- "But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make that Metal, but Mr Rearden Did?"


This book is SPOOKY.

There are a LOT of things in there. Read the book and you'd think it was rushed to press based on the news of the last 6 months. Then realize it was written in the 50's. Heck, go on YouTube and look up inteviews with Ayn Rand. She pretty much nails where our country is headed.

 

[macshooter]

Holy cat crap on a bent stick. Thrown at the wall!!!

Mr obama's "you didn't build that" ......is in the damn book.

The part where, Jim Taggart rambles to the girl from the dime store about Hank Rearden's invention of Rearden Steel.

Jim- "He couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal? Why does he thinks it's his?"

Dime store girl- "But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make that Metal, but Mr Rearden Did?"


This book is SPOOKY.

You're making me want to read it again. She was a genius.

 

[grasshopperglock]

There are a LOT of things in there. Read the book and you'd think it was rushed to press based on the news of the last 6 months. Then realize it was written in the 50's. Heck, go on YouTube and look up inteviews with Ayn Rand. She pretty much nails where our country is headed.

I've even noticed a vague, but quite similar, resemblance of the "National Alliance of Railroads" to the United Nations.

This book is deep. I agree with all those that said long winded. Vivid descriptions of the environment for which the characters are in, abound. She writes to where you can almost smell the oil of the trains. The texture of clothing. The feel of the cold rain.

And the sex episodes.....I also agree with those that thought Ayn Rand was probably one HELL of a lover.

 

[M. Sage]

There are a LOT of things in there. Read the book and you'd think it was rushed to press based on the news of the last 6 months. Then realize it was written in the 50's. Heck, go on YouTube and look up inteviews with Ayn Rand. She pretty much nails where our country is headed.

Look up some of Milton Friedman's interviews while you're at it.

 

[XinTX]

Look up some of Milton Friedman's interviews while you're at it.

Heck, go look up his appearance on the Phil Donohue (BIG time 'progressive') Show many years ago. And you'll see him being asked a question by a then 19 year old Michael Moore. Of course, Milton gave him the intellectual slapdown that only he or W.F. Buckley could.

 

[grasshopperglock]

Heck, go look up his appearance on the Phil Donohue (BIG time 'progressive') Show many years ago. And you'll see him being asked a question by a then 19 year old Michael Moore. Of course, Milton gave him the intellectual slapdown that only he or W.F. Buckley could.

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place - YouTube

Wow....micheal moore was even a douche when he was young. And a skinny douche at that. Even in the face of common sense, he looks like he wants to start crying when told his way thinking is a bunch of misdirected crap.

He didnt absorb one fly turd's worth of anything Milton told him. It's like he has a hearing problem.....or mental.....

If you had put moore in a room with Ayn Rand...I firmly believe she would have cut his balls off to prevent a continuation of his species.

 

[woodsong]

If you have, whats your take on it predicting where US politics is headed?

"Is headed"? I'd say has already arrived.

 

[DubiousDan]

(in fact, you can skip the entire chapter "This is John Galt Speaking")

Ain't that the truth.

 

[M. Sage]

Heck, go look up his appearance on the Phil Donohue (BIG time 'progressive') Show many years ago. And you'll see him being asked a question by a then 19 year old Michael Moore. Of course, Milton gave him the intellectual slapdown that only he or W.F. Buckley could.

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place - YouTube

Wow....micheal moore was even a douche when he was young. And a skinny douche at that. Even in the face of common sense, he looks like he wants to start crying when told his way thinking is a bunch of misdirected crap.

He didnt absorb one fly turd's worth of anything Milton told him. It's like he has a hearing problem.....or mental.....

If you had put moore in a room with Ayn Rand...I firmly believe she would have cut his balls off to prevent a continuation of his species.

That kid isn't Michael Moore.