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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 engend
by ZanyProgrammer 13y 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.”
- DonGateley 13y agoThen, of course, there is Catcher in the Rye, the most damaging book ever written. Completely ruined two generations at the least. Made effete and cynical cool and we've yet to recover the hard nosed optimism that infused us with greatness for a too short a while. I sincerely wish we'd lost Salinger in the war.