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I get a completely different take. To me, it's empowering to young individuals, especially (I would guess) young females because the main character is a very st
by johng 2y ago
I get a completely different take. To me, it's empowering to young individuals, especially (I would guess) young females because the main character is a very strong self-driven female.
- hinkley 2y agoThe problem was that all the people who volunteered that they’d read the book were narcissistic assholes who just became much bigger assholes afterward. I really wanted to read that book as a young man to understand why it was so toxic. But I didn’t want anyone to ever see me reading it. I went as far as making a plan to glue another book cover over it. Problem was I also didn’t want the Rand estate to profit from my curiosity.
- woleium 2y agoI love my e-reader. Nobody knows what i am reading. I have heard ebooks are available for free from the shady end of the web, which is great for those who are disadvantaged or from poor nations with little alternative access, but i believe that you should pay if you can afford it (regardless of your thoughts about the author).
- hinkley 2y agoHeh. True. The urge has passed but I’m sure there are some college kids who might take you up on the suggestion. I know a guy who is reading romance novels. Voraciously. He must have read a few hundred by now.
- freedomben 2y agoWhich e-reader? If Kindle, then Amazon knows exactly what you're reading. They even know how long it took you to read each page, when and where you skipped to, and text you searched for, etc. I don't disagree with you (in fact I very much agree) but I use a Remarkable 2 now to avoid the incredible depth of spying.
- makemyworkforme 2y agoAs someone who grew up in a society with rampant corruption (India), Fountainhead (the destruction of buildings at the end of the novel) and Atlas Shrugged (motivated me into leaving India to self-implode while I traveled to US to have a better life) quite a impression on my teenage years. It was only later when I thought about these books more that I realized how crazy they are. In the meantime, India didn't self-implode, at least not yet.
- onemoresoop 2y agoI’ve seen a certain type of person gravitate towards this book, that is usually more of a selfish goal driven type.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoThere's also just the curiosity type, like a friend i have. similarly, people who aren't pervs read Nabokov's Lolita, because Nabokov writes amazingly, and it's just one of his books.
- onemoresoop 2y agoCurious people are more open to variety in thinking. I can’t answer as to whether this book resonates with curious minds and if it does to what extent. As a curious mind myself this book did not resonate with me much but am aware im not the targeted audience.
- skellington 2y agoBiased take probably... I have yet to meet a person that isn't primarily self interested. They must exist, but they are exceedingly rare.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoAre you refering to others as narcissistic for reading it, and saying narcissism prevented you from reading it?
- hinkley 2y agoWhat part of “became bigger assholes after” makes you think that’s a categorization comment rather than an observational one?
- nickff 2y agoMany authors of great works were not wonderful people, and there’s no way to verify their ‘correctness’. For a very current example, see Gaiman, who had a sterling reputation which is now in doubt. In any case, you are the one most harmed by your own blinders, and you don’t know what you’re missing.
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- actionfromafar 2y agoHinkley's on point.
- bityard 2y agoIt seems like you might not understand that a person can read a book without necessarily agreeing with everything the author writes about.
- analog31 2y agoThe self-driven female arrives in utopia by accident, when her plane crashes there. It hardly seems empowering, but does say a lot about utopia.
- santoshalper 2y agoDagny is the first "Anti-Mary Sue" I can remember in literature. She's ostensibly the protagonist, but is literally worse at everything than her male couterparts.