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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 04:57 PM Original message |
'Atlas Shrugged' author sees resurgence (CNN) {Ayn Rand -- ick!} |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, it just goes to show that boring, ponderous, and truly SHITTY writing is timeless!! |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. x 1 |
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glaeken777 (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. still sitting on my shelves |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. There's a reason you gave up after forcing yourself through the first 100 pp. . . . |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Another book Freepers will buy, read one chapter and use as a paperweight |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. IMO the RW conservative hacks that I know are far too |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. Atlas shrugged is not reconciable with Christianity |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 06:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. +1 |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ayn sees and speaks from the dead? Clearly, I should have read her more closely. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. She's one of the Undead? I guess that would figure. nt |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. If the assholes |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. Republicans have to go somewhere, now that their party is imploding. |
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The Traveler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. A problem for Randians |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. Atlas Shrugged isn't a book, it was a cry for help by a deranged woman. Nobody cared. |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. And the flimsiest of disasters starts the whole ball rolling.... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
15. Alice Rosenbaum was a terrible philosopher and even worse novelist |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. Huh? It was largely Ayn Rand's "philosophy" that caused the mess to begin with. |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
18. Good thing she's dead so she can't profit from it... |
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Batgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. I fail to see how anyone can buy into her "philosophy" unless |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Robert Hunt said that readers were seduced by the relentless glamour of the GQ model-CEOs' lives: |
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Batgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I haven't read that, sounds interesting. |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. When times are tough, folks turn to the used book bin for toilet paper. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
22. Stephen Moore and the rest of the Randites have never been right about anything. |
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October (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. Just met a woman who's reading Fountainhead or w.e. and her hubby's reading Atlas |
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