Taidje Khan wrote:Besides, all the cool kids are reading it.
If all the cool kids were Catholic, would you be as well?

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Taidje Khan wrote:Besides, all the cool kids are reading it.
Taidje Khan wrote:MPTrooper wrote:I have Atlas Shrugged.
I read the first twenty pages...looked at how much I had left and put the book down.
Any reason I should pick it up again?
So you're a Catholic! Listen, I have the Bible. I read the first twenty pages...looked at how much I had left and put the book down. Any reason I should pick it up again?
Atlas Shrugged, for lack of a better term, is my Bible. It absolutely changed my life and the lives of millions of others. In fact, I believe it was named as the second most influential book in a Time Magazine poll of Americans back in 1995 or some such.
If that doesn't sway you, just look at the second quote in your signature. Jesus died on the cross, I think you can read a big book, friend. Besides, all the cool kids are reading it.
Rainswept wrote:Yes, but 90% of Stephen King's best work is short stories and novelettes. I remember an entire chapter of Eyes of the Dragon describing a room full of napkins. I don't think I've read a full length novel of his since then.
Atlas Shrugged centers around the vice president of a major railroad and the owner of a major steel company. These two find themselves in a constant battle to keep their companies running and profiting for various reasons that seem to keep mounting.
Slowly they begin to notice that many of the other best and brightest heads of companies, scientists, etc are disappearing one by one, and the country is suffering a tremendous depression at the same time.
The two heroes struggle to overcome everything from corrupt politicians, lying and cheating members of their own companies, and even their own families, all the while trying to figure out what has been happening to the missing leaders, and wondering if they will be the ones to disappear next.
Taidje Khan wrote:It's good, it's the kind of book that everybody ought to read at least once, and now's the time, since they're going to make a terrible movie out of it in the next few years.
Since when has that stopped the movie industry?EarthRise wrote:Plus, it's too f-in' long to be translated into a movie.
EarthRise wrote:Taidje Khan wrote:It's good, it's the kind of book that everybody ought to read at least once, and now's the time, since they're going to make a terrible movie out of it in the next few years.
I can only hope that you jest in this (lest I become depressed). The American populace would soundly reject the primary tenets of the book as un-Christian and the quote-unquote 'atheist overtones' adopted by Ayn Rand in her promotion of zealous capitalism.
Plus, it's too f-in' long to be translated into a movie.
Pontius Pirate wrote:I read Anthem. I refuse to touch Atlas Shrugged out of fear- the fear that it could be even remotely as bad as Anthem was. Seriously, I don't think I've ever disliked a book so much.
*shudder*
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