It's a big book. If you didn't get to, or skipped, the 100 pager radio address by John Galt ( three hours in audiobook form! ) , that's ok. It's a page turner otherwise, but she does bring everything to a screeching halt with the monologue.
I enjoyed it.
INSANE incompetence at that company. You are to be commended for not resorting to violence.
I read it as sabotage. Willful or passive aggressive, the signal was clear to the hopelessly hopeful that there would be no connection with that corporation. No cable. No connection. No contract.
"Ayn’s only concept of a big hard project is writing a novel." This is a wonderful point and is pretty depressing when you apply it to all artistic production.
stefan molyneux has a very similar story where he had to give a presentation for a huge contract and didn't have the right cable, he's also a former randian - cool parallel.
The photo is like in the book (sort of) when John Galt bangs Dagny Taggart in the railway tunnel… at least I think that’s how it happened. Rand has some good essays btw collected in a series of books. Apollo & Dionysus is a good one.
Interesting choice of splash photo. there's a scene later in the book where Rand/Taggart let's down her proverbial hair and while she does not come out and say she wants to be bent over and given the business, she basically admits that the whole tough girl shtick is just that, and what she really wants it to be loved and taken care of. how the titans of industry feel about this tell, if they know about it, who can say.
I bought it at an airport once, when my flight was hugely delayed, like obnoxiously delayed, it was driving me crazy, and I was flying out to meet a girl that weekend. But i bought a good-looking paperback of Atlas at the airport bookstore and thought if I actually finally read it or got a good start on it during the flight it would be sort of worth it. But I never did, I couldn't get into it
This made me recollect white hot hate for corporate culture and its venal lobotomised talentless feudalistic dickheads. Thank you.
The book's dialogue is weird, because a character will get asked about how was their breakfast and they'll go on a 3000-word tirade on collectivism.
It's a big book. If you didn't get to, or skipped, the 100 pager radio address by John Galt ( three hours in audiobook form! ) , that's ok. It's a page turner otherwise, but she does bring everything to a screeching halt with the monologue.
I enjoyed it.
INSANE incompetence at that company. You are to be commended for not resorting to violence.
I read it as sabotage. Willful or passive aggressive, the signal was clear to the hopelessly hopeful that there would be no connection with that corporation. No cable. No connection. No contract.
But the book is not bad. Carry on.
I think Rand would probably have agreed with you.
"Ayn’s only concept of a big hard project is writing a novel." This is a wonderful point and is pretty depressing when you apply it to all artistic production.
As Steinbeck said, once a second person shows up, art is over.
stefan molyneux has a very similar story where he had to give a presentation for a huge contract and didn't have the right cable, he's also a former randian - cool parallel.
The photo is like in the book (sort of) when John Galt bangs Dagny Taggart in the railway tunnel… at least I think that’s how it happened. Rand has some good essays btw collected in a series of books. Apollo & Dionysus is a good one.
Interesting choice of splash photo. there's a scene later in the book where Rand/Taggart let's down her proverbial hair and while she does not come out and say she wants to be bent over and given the business, she basically admits that the whole tough girl shtick is just that, and what she really wants it to be loved and taken care of. how the titans of industry feel about this tell, if they know about it, who can say.
is this satire (rhetorical)
I bought it at an airport once, when my flight was hugely delayed, like obnoxiously delayed, it was driving me crazy, and I was flying out to meet a girl that weekend. But i bought a good-looking paperback of Atlas at the airport bookstore and thought if I actually finally read it or got a good start on it during the flight it would be sort of worth it. But I never did, I couldn't get into it
Cool story, but who’s the chick getting railed in the photo?
My 'helpful'AI assistant got all moralfaggy but I think it's a young Helen Mirren