>At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of crap, I am never reading again!
>Atlas Shrugged is the worst book ever!
Hello reddit
>>7379099
>I'm triggered
Hello tumblr
So, do people hate Ayn Rand because of her philosophy, or because her books are long and boring?
>>7379149
Bad books and whiny fanbase for the most part. Sure, her philosophy doesn't hold water, but that didn't stop Dostoevsky from producing great books.
>>7379097
But why is it good to want to help others?
>>7379151
You've misunderstood Dostoevsky or Rand, or both
I love that episode. Another good one about learning to read
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjeMABciSpAmade extra funny because the character is called oskar kokoschka
>>7379149
>So, do people hate Ayn Rand because of her philosophy, or because her books are long and boring?
They hate it because of the former, all the while pretending they hate it for the latter.
>>7379206
>he hasn't read her philosophical tracts
>he wants to justify reading her shitty novels as "philosophy"
no, anon, you're just dumb
When did the no Ayn Rand rule get lifted?
>>7379216
Year or more
Also, the Fountainhead isnt BAD as a fictionalized idealized pseudo biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, it just puts forth an unattainable ideal and blatantly violates Hanlon's Razor.
Atlas Shrugged is definitely worthy of a read sort of as a literary car crash: you cant look away.
>>7379206
but people openly hate it because of the former?
>>7379149
Both. Rand was a bad philosopher and a worse writer.
>>7379238
>violates an aphoristic non-rule
>>7379238
And then we've got this memer.
atlas shrugged isn't THAT bad
Anthem?
>>7379902
It had a convenient way of strawmanning the philisophical opposition, but I liked it.
>>7379238
You guys have to admit that Atlas Shrugged as a title is pretty fucking good.
>>7379097
Atlas Shrugged is my favourite book ever (plz don't kill me), What don't y'all like about it?
>>7379943
The original title was "The Strike," which is pretty good as well.
You really can't deny that this is a brilliant passage:
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug.”
>>7379978
Atlas held the sky not the earth.
>>7379216
There was a rule, why?
>>7379978
I had trouble with that metaphor because when I shrug I typically do not drop what I'm carrying.
And of course, being a good Randian, a more appropriate response would be to figure out how to monetise Atlas' labour, but that's neither her nor there.
