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#Wondrouswednesday Thanks for tag @Eggs @TheSpineView ! I was out of town Wednesday so a day late.

1) I ❤️ history so it‘s hard to go wrong with most any time period
2) Starter Villain ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
3) Tagged, 7th longest book in English according to:
https://www.tckpublishing.com/longest-books/

Amiable #Clarissa is number 1! Wow, now the bragging rights are even bigger and braggier, @Lcsmcat @BarbaraJean 😀 (edited) 3mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable And Richardson holds both the top two spots! 3mo

Texreader @Amiable 😃🎊🎉 3mo

TheSpineView 🥰🌞😊 3mo

Eggs Thanks for playing Karen !! 3mo

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LibraryCin

The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand

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There are relationships in the story, but I‘m not sure how they happen given how selfish everyone is. I listened to the (lllllooooonnnnngggg) audio, and tuned much of it out, as it was boring. Boring boring boring. Maybe a good thing I tuned it out because there didn‘t appear to be a single likable character, as far as I could tell, from the bits and pieces I did pay attention to. Cont in comments...

LibraryCin The first chapter (was this some kind of intro, I‘m thinking?) turned me off immediately via all the philosophy. At least after that, there was somewhat of a story, but it was also pretty slow and of course, there was plenty of philosophy sprinkled throughout. Not my thing. Add to that the selfish unlikable characters. In all honesty, half the time I missed who was in a relationship with whom. 8mo

dabbe I tried and couldn't finish this one either. The arrogance of Roark and Dominique was awful--just awful. And boring? Hell yes! 🤣🤣🤣 8mo

LibraryCin @dabbe i rarely give up on a book, but even if i did, i would have finished this one, as it was for my f2f book club. 8mo

dabbe @LibraryCin In my older age, I give up more frequently because there are so many books out there for me to love! 😍 8mo

LibraryCin @dabbe i really should do more of that! 8mo

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LisaLovesToRead

Atlas Shrugged (Turtleback School & Library) | Ayn Rand

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One of my faves! A classic!

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BookDadGirlDad

Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand

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How can one add to the myriad reviews of the Rand classic? I don't think I can. This book took me 3 months to read. I don't regret one moment. I would not have 100% agreement with her philosophy of man. Her presentation of the necessity of free market capitalism is spot on. If I were to use one word for this book in light of today's world: prophetic. Read this.

GinaKButler It was fantastic! 12mo

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Aimeesue

The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis | Darryl Cunningham

Dear banks, screw around and take massive risks with your customers money to make obscene profits for YOU, and the tax payers will bail you out time and time again! With no consequences for you!
This book laid out a lot of things that perhaps should have been obvious to me, but weren‘t on my radar because the machinations of the financial industry are deliberately obscured by design. Deregulation has doomed us. Infuriating, but a good read.

Suet624 Yup 13mo

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Aimeesue

The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis | Darryl Cunningham

Some nice light reading for a Sunday afternoon ?
I had to read Atlas Shrugged in HS for a Philosophy and Lit class. It was all very odd, and I remember being confused by fact that it was being taught in the same class where we were reading Keats and Aristotle. That, and everyone asking each other "Where is John Galt???" very loudly in the hallways between classes.

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IuliaC

The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand

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I'm glad I've not skipped this 1000-page classic.
Indeed a novel of ideas!
Not related to objectivism or the author's philosophy in general, an idea has seemed to be haunting throughout the novel: brilliant new trends take time to be absorbed and acknowledged by the population, as the pace of the masses is not the same as the pace of a visionary, upright and uncompromising individual who eventually becomes the engine of innovation for society.

RaeLovesToRead I spy a kitty! 😁 14mo

IuliaC @RaeLovesToRead Kitty is everywhere, I can't move a thing without her checking on it 😁 (edited) 14mo

tokorowilliamwallace I read a collection of Rand's charming, quirky, campy early plays. Recommended. And I've only read the first 30 to 60 pages of The Fountainhead, finding it at a bookstore and reading it there while waiting to pass the time, without purchasing it. I remember the first dramatic 'speech.' I remember enjoying the grand, ambitious rhetoric of it, but hadn't picked it back up since. Probably was a decade ago or more. Might be a nice thrift find. 13mo

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IuliaC @tokorowilliamwallace Thank you for letting me know about her plays, I'll try to find them. I knew nothing about this author apart from being considered a classic, I just happened to find this novel available at a library and decided to give it a try. 13mo

TalesandTexts I read atlas shrugged half way and took a break. Been a few years and still haven‘t returned to it. Initially, i thought the author and I just don‘t gel well together. But thinking about going back to it now. But, maybe I should start with the fountainhead and then move onto atlas shrugged again. 13mo

IuliaC @TalesandTexts I intended to read Atlas Shrugged (I saw it recommended in a list of 'books to be read'), but then I found this one first at the library and I was engrossed in the story after a couple of pages 13mo

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BookDadGirlDad

Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand

I'm about 1/4 into this #chunkster. There is a meme/saying going around: "Make Orwell fiction again." I think the same can be said of Rand. Everything I'm seeing in this book has its reality in our current world to some degree. Scary.

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LisaLovesToRead

Anthem | Ayn Rand

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It was interesting to read Anthem right on the heels of 1984. I enjoyed Anthem more. It is certainly more optimistic. Some might argue unrealistic, but what do we have without hope?

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