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Originally Posted by tompe
I did not finish Atlas Shrugged. It was bad fiction. I stopped just before John Galt's speech. The setup to the speech was just extremely badly written and not convincing. What I do not get is people thinking this book is good fiction literature.
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When I read it, in my early 20s, I was just a pimple on a donkey's ass, without much common sense but a great thirst for knowledge.
The novel is really, I feel, a way for Rand to talk about her philosophy of
Objectivism. As such, now that I've popped that particular pimple
, I'm able to see how preachy the book really is -- for ME.
Don