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Atlas Shrugged
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deadcode wrote
at 6:03 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Anyone read it? Opinions?
I enjoyed the book so I was very happy to hear that the movie just came out on April 15th. I hear it's pretty low budget; and has no name actors; but I don't really care about that stuff. Has anyone seen it yet? |
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deadcode wrote
at 6:03 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT For those confused: http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/
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skrumgaer wrote
at 6:43 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT I read the book when I was 16 years old. It had a transforming effect on my life. In college I went to Objectivist meetings and attended night seminars of the Nathaniel Branden Institute and some presentations given by Nathaniel Branden and one or two by Ayn Rand herself.
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 7:08 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT "I read the book when I was 16 years old. It had a transforming effect on my life."
Shocking. |
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Boner Oiler wrote
at 7:46 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT Lol didn't expect that one skrum /sarcasm
yeah I read the book it's an appeal to emotion more than logos. Which is why the intended message never stuck with me. I prefer Farenheit 411 for my dystopic literature. |
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deadcode wrote
at 7:52 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT Cool; skrum; I would also say that the book was very influential on my life so far.
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 8:53 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT Id say we're heading more towards a Brave New World
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Randomperfection wrote
at 9:33 PM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT As long as we avoid the dystopia of 1984, and stick to a society that is more similar to the one envisioned by Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward, I will be happy...
However, the originator of the word Utopia, Thomas More was distinctly anti-utopian, he admitted that his society existed in a history and place that was not in our reality... |
