I dunno what you mean.Glad you're still talking to me, you closet Ayn Randian, you.
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Oh now Blunt, let's not be coy. I love ya, ya rascal!
Ayn Rand? Never heard of her? Supporters of her ideology would Ayn Randians.
I am just yanking yer chain...
I just yanked it myself, but thanx anyway. I know of Ayn Rand, I read The Fountainhead and another one of hers.
You're always yanking stuff.
Right, she is a right wing hero now. Her main premise was selfishness is the best approach to life.
BTW, probably "Atlas Shrugged" was the other one?
No, not Atlas Shrugged, you give me too much credit. That and Moby Dick are the two novels people most rarely finish. I think the word "Prometheus" was in the title.
Her idea was about egocentrism (as opposed to egotisticalism). I'm ignorant of any "ring wing"-edness. Oh, and btw, I love you, too, though I'm eternally jealous of anyone famous actresses hit on, dammit.
Yes, but more easily quoted as selfishness, no? With the latter bordering more towards narcissism (and I think the word is egoism). Either way, she felt embracing this was best.
I read her stuff and gave it great thought in my youth. I always liked "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" better.
...now stop that political tomfoolery!....
Damn, I finished both those books. And War and Peace. I also did the whole Dickens catalog by the time I was 14 or so. I guess I was a nerd with no life. Which was pretty much true then. And now a little too.
I think you're talking about "Anthem". I believe the main character was Prometheus.
Ah, ZAMM! The third such book people don't finish. I did! Loved it.
We're talking about books, you big ugly Yeti!
Hey, he ain't ugly, he's my (tall) brother...We're talking about books, you big ugly Yeti!
My favorites back then were the collected Kafka Tales. I've always seen a lot of influence of his in SK's writing as well. Kafka made it OK for the story to be based on a truly strange premise.
Sorry I wasn't participating properly in this thread. Please allow me to fix this. And you're welcome for this...
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I haven't been the kind of reader you and so many others are, not because I don't enjoy reading. I didn't start reading anything for enjoyment until I had to in order to get my mom to stop bugging me about it. She absolutely insisted that I read CSLewis's The Great Divorce, also Catcher in the Rye. It was via these two books that I realized a love for fiction.
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