rationalwiki's take on atlas shrugged

“”This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
—Dorothy Parker


Atlas Shrugged: "The guy holding up the globe on the cover? That’s Fabio. Get the edition with the train on the cover? That’s Fabio’s cock."[12]
Actually reading this novel has been compared to pushing one's head through a light-year of refrigerated saltwater taffy (sort of like a libertarian Das Kapital, but for the fact Ayn Rand hated libertarians[13]).
To save you reading over a thousand pages of turgid prose, here is Atlas Shrugged. No "spoiler" alert is necessary:
A dark and lonely handsome 'hero' invents a perpetual motion machine.
When someone mentions the slogan "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" he and his bazilllionaire 'friends' wail like babies, and flee in a huff to live in the mountains.[14]
All the decent folk who helped them make those bazillions of dollars running trains, forging steel, etc., are left behind to rot.
The world is like North Korea, but quite a bit less fun. Lucky for our heroes, their mountain hideout is a land of colourful plenty, and is hidden away from the world using a form of holographic projection that is never fully explained.
Everyone in the world is miserable except them, as they are busy driving their trains up and down in their incredible mountain hideaway away from the Gubmint.
They have romance-novel sex with other capitalist boors, but can't commit due to being too busy.
Everyone else is wrong and they are completely correct.
They pop up suddenly in public and punish the miserable hordes by lecturing them in interminably boring speeches that go on and on and on for about one hundred pages and have only one point: "You need me, I don't need you, and I refuse to make bazillions of dollars anymore, so you're all fucked. Ha Ha!"
The world goes to hell in a handbasket, except for them, 'cos they're in their seekrit mountain hideout, which can't be seen from the air, so it's, like, seekrit. And they have trains, after all.[15]
The reader contemplates suicide after over 100 references to the word 'torture'.[16]
The reader falls into a deep coma. The survival rate is estimated at 3%-5%.
A number of conservatives apparently hold Atlas Shrugged in high regard, which is strange, since they've already got a foundational text that is even longer and more boring (and almost as preachy). Rush Limbaugh frequently refers to it.[17] Glenn Beck started reading it in early 2008,[18] but in 2010, it became painfully clear that he had finished only the first few pages and didn't even get those right.[19] It taught these guys "conservative love,"[20] but unfortunately, not how to rap.
The book probably would have been much shorter if ol' Ayn had laid off the speed.[21]

THE UNSTOPPABLE MR VIDEO wrote:http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Atlas_Shrugged

“”This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
—Dorothy Parker


Atlas Shrugged: "The guy holding up the globe on the cover? That’s Fabio. Get the edition with the train on the cover? That’s Fabio’s cock."[12]
Actually reading this novel has been compared to pushing one's head through a light-year of refrigerated saltwater taffy (sort of like a libertarian Das Kapital, but for the fact Ayn Rand hated libertarians[13]).
To save you reading over a thousand pages of turgid prose, here is Atlas Shrugged. No "spoiler" alert is necessary:
A dark and lonely handsome 'hero' invents a perpetual motion machine.
When someone mentions the slogan "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" he and his bazilllionaire 'friends' wail like babies, and flee in a huff to live in the mountains.[14]
All the decent folk who helped them make those bazillions of dollars running trains, forging steel, etc., are left behind to rot.
The world is like North Korea, but quite a bit less fun. Lucky for our heroes, their mountain hideout is a land of colourful plenty, and is hidden away from the world using a form of holographic projection that is never fully explained.
Everyone in the world is miserable except them, as they are busy driving their trains up and down in their incredible mountain hideaway away from the Gubmint.
They have romance-novel sex with other capitalist boors, but can't commit due to being too busy.
Everyone else is wrong and they are completely correct.
They pop up suddenly in public and punish the miserable hordes by lecturing them in interminably boring speeches that go on and on and on for about one hundred pages and have only one point: "You need me, I don't need you, and I refuse to make bazillions of dollars anymore, so you're all fucked. Ha Ha!"
The world goes to hell in a handbasket, except for them, 'cos they're in their seekrit mountain hideout, which can't be seen from the air, so it's, like, seekrit. And they have trains, after all.[15]
The reader contemplates suicide after over 100 references to the word 'torture'.[16]
The reader falls into a deep coma. The survival rate is estimated at 3%-5%.
A number of conservatives apparently hold Atlas Shrugged in high regard, which is strange, since they've already got a foundational text that is even longer and more boring (and almost as preachy). Rush Limbaugh frequently refers to it.[17] Glenn Beck started reading it in early 2008,[18] but in 2010, it became painfully clear that he had finished only the first few pages and didn't even get those right.[19] It taught these guys "conservative love,"[20] but unfortunately, not how to rap.
The book probably would have been much shorter if ol' Ayn had laid off the speed.[21]

wrecked

THE UNSTOPPABLE MR VIDEO wrote:Rand's philosophy was anti-Christian to the point of even declaring that "[[faith]], as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason."

oh wow this woman is like the jesus christ of egdgy teenagers