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Showing Original Post only (View all)Has anyone in DU actually read 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand? [View all]
Just wondering. It's discussed so much but I'm the only one I know who's read it from cover to cover. It was required reading for some Econ class I took decades ago.
once a decade, I'll see a "who is John Galt" bumber sticker.
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Yes, I've read it from cover to cover | |
30 (42%) |
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kinda read it, skipped over the long boring speeches | |
11 (15%) |
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skimmed it | |
1 (1%) |
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haven't read it but aware of the contents | |
9 (13%) |
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haven't read it at all | |
15 (21%) |
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Other | |
2 (3%) |
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haven't read 'Atlas Shrugged' but read 'the fountainhead' or other Rand book | |
3 (4%) |
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My first big philosophical disagreement with my first GF was over the Fountainhead
Xipe Totec
Aug 2012
#26
Some consider it important to be familiar with literature that influences others - for example
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#6
Several times, actually. Always tried to make sense of those long soliloquys,
kestrel91316
Aug 2012
#5
Don't forget the complete works of Krishnamurti and Balzac's "In Search of the Absolute"!
Walk away
Aug 2012
#60
wow. I read Atlas shrugged. started "fountainhead" but the long speeches did me in
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#22
If I didn't have a job, bills to pay and actual responsibilitites I might think about reading it.
bluestateguy
Aug 2012
#30
When I was a teenager two books I read early alarmed me Atlas Shrugged and Mein Kampf.
gordianot
Aug 2012
#31
When I was 17-18 years old I read all of her fiction. Tried to pick it up not long ago and found it
patrice
Aug 2012
#33
I read it between terms at University, urged by a fellow worker, but quit 20 pages from the end. . .
Journeyman
Aug 2012
#40
Read it a few years ago and don't see why it makes such an impression on people
sammytko
Aug 2012
#44
Read "The Fountainhead" at the prompting of a woman I was crazy about........
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2012
#80
I read the Ms. Magazine review of Ayn Rand years ago. That was enough for me.
McCamy Taylor
Aug 2012
#95
Have read it cover to cover several times and have an autographed copy. n/t
Tansy_Gold
Aug 2012
#108
It's a very difficult book to get through. Not because it's difficult to understand, mind you.
Marr
Aug 2012
#114
Thanks. I'm amazed that so many DUers have read it from cover to cover. Wonder what the %
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#119