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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engende
by ttfkam 4y ago
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
– John Rogers
- tryptophan 4y agoI've never understood why Atlas Shrugged gets so much more hate than any other book that ever gets mentioned. Its like a rule of the internet that anytime it is mentioned, people must show up and dunk on it.
- YuriNiyazov 4y agoBecause later on in life, you meet people in corporate boardrooms who love doing layoffs and say things like "Atlas Shrugged was the best book I've ever read, it changed my life"
- tb_technical 4y agoAnd you've been in those boardrooms?
- YuriNiyazov 4y agoIs this the equivalent of "Citation Needed"? Either I have been, or people that I trust have been.
- loki49152 4y agoIt's easier to snark at something than to actually address its content. Witness the vacuous "dunkage" of that quote above. Literally any book with heroes, people of principle, or people who achieve things can be in the second slot. It's just something for people who have nothing to say, to say.