Why is the audiobook for this over 60 hours long? It has around the same amount of pages as infinite jest and that took me around 15 hours to read.
>>7506360
>audiobooks
>atlas shrugged
just fuck off
>>7506360
can someone explain her philosophy to me and why the hate towards her? i know nothing about her
>>7506366
Thanks for getting the memes out of the way
now, does anyone have an explanation?
>>7506369
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYR6e9Z6es
just go full brometheus mode and switch speed to 2x
>>7506369
People dislike a book they've never even touch just to fit in and parrot opinions spouted by liberal SJW college students and Reddit.
>>7506395
No way. Not in this instance. Even if you adhere to her philosophy Atlas Shrugged in particular is just a completely tedious waste of time.
>>7506376
>Christopher Hitchens
>>7506405
I really don't know what to think, colleagues of mine who generally hold fair opinions on literature laud this book. Either nobody on here has actually read it and this meme is baseless or all my friends are idiots.
>>7506411
Read it yourself and find out. I have read it and for my part I would not recommend it to anyone but the kind of people who will laud it based solely on the name of the author.
I know I read The Fountainhead in high school and I think I thought it was okay, but Atlas Shrugged just seemed like a rambling tirade devoid of anything really novel or interesting to say.
>>7506360
Senpai you can read faster than a person can speak.
>>7506425
At least there was some fun speeches in it.
>>7506360
>infinite jest
>15 hours to read
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Posting in a bait thread.
>>7506432
looks like you are just 2smart my man
>>7506429
Doesn't really account for that much disparity
>>7506360
You did not read Infinite Jest in 15 hours. That's a consistent 10 words per second. And even if you did somehow read it in that time, there is no way you grasped anything. You read the words and put no actual thought in to what you were reading.
>>7506441
I read 50 pages a day for three weeks, each sitting was a little under an hour so your right it was probably a little closer to 18 hours.
>>7506408
Agree or disagree with his politics, Hitchens was one of the most well read public figures in western media.
His critique on Rand is succinct and accurate, objectivism is pure ideology, the religion of the rich and wealthy.
>>7506369
http://www.amazon.com/Objectivism-Philosophy-Ayn-Rand-Library/dp/0452011019 is probably your best bet for an actual explanation of her philosophy.
>>7506441
As if this drivel has anything worthwhile to say to someone over 18. It's cute that freshmen and kids like that flock to moronic ideals like communism and those vomited in this kind of book, but they all grow up and out of it.
