I finally finished this damn book. It took me like 3 months to read the thing. Somebody recommended this to me a long time ago and I was desperate for something to read so I got this. But it turned out to be a pretty good story.
It takes place in the near future of 1957 and it follows the struggles of Dagny Taggart, the operations manager at Taggart Transcontinental, as she tried to keep her company afloat while her brother, the president, runs the company into the ground. Meanwhile, all the good workers and induatrialists are mysteriously disappearing and a new government is starting to take over the country and... well... alot more stuff happens but I don't feel like describing it all.
Anyway, the book has a pretty good pace and manages to keep you interested, though it does get a little long winded at times. Mainly because Ayn Rand is the founder of the Objectivism movement and she uses this book as a platform to preach it and at the end of the book when things are coming to a climax she makes you sit through fifty pages of her Objectivism spiel before she continues with the story....That BITCH!!!
But it's still a good book, I would recommend it to anyone interested.
Now I can start on my next book that I've been anxiously wanting to start.
I've never heard of him either, it was one of those "if you like this guy, you'll like...." on Amazon.com. I read a couple pages in the bookstore and it seemed pretty good, but we'll see.
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I'm currently reading the fifth Gunslinger book by Little Stevie King.
There's a blog written by a "single christian republican" chick that goes on endlessly about objectivism if you're interested.
nah.. objectivism has some good points but it's a pretty unrealistic philosophy.
Wasn't the traveling pants book a movie?
Stop mentioning Harry Potter!!!! I'll have to make fun of you!!!
Dutch, you know me. I was recommending that blog for you to make fun of! SHEESH!!!
SHEESH!!!!
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