• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Anything by Ayn Rand. She’s a terrible author and most people are more interested in showing that they could have read The Fountainhead than actually reading that unfun, meandering garbage.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year 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

    • bubbalu [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. My grandpa made me read Atlas Shrugged when I was in HS and it was so dumb it made me a communist. I did like the scene with the fast train on the green rails. Literally the only scene in the whole book with imagery.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Can you blame them? Even South Park made fun of how bad Atlas Shrugged is.