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Atlas Shrugged Trilogy

p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Trilogy and it arrived today.
It's a 4 disk set with three for the movie and one for the extra features.

It's pretty killder just watching the movie, but the extra features are kick *. Ted Cruz is on there plus a lot of thought provoking comparisons between Ayn Rands' novel (written over fifty years ago) and what is happening in America right now.

If you've read the over 1100 page book, fine, but if you haven't, the movie does a fair job of putting the setting in contemporary terms.

It was only $25 and here's the site.

http://store.atlasshruggedmovie.com

BTW; You don't have to be a deep thinker to get the message (but it helps).[:D]

Comments

  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I meant to go see it when it was in the theaters, I have tried many times to read the books, her writing is so incredibly soporific I can barely get a chapter in without falling asleep.
  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    I meant to go see it when it was in the theaters, I have tried many times to read the books, her writing is so incredibly soporific I can barely get a chapter in without falling asleep.


    Keep trying. When you finish it, you'll feel the same as when you finish Dr. Zhivago or War and Peace. You'll never forget it.
  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In 1963 Atlas Shrugged was required reading in High School. Now,, why bother READING when you can learn EVERYTHING you need to know watching cartoons on weekends.

    Someday will revisit Atlas Shrugged and Anthem.
    https://www.aynrand.org/ideas/philosophy

    Falling asleep is better accomplished by reading THE ROAD TO SERFDOM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

    Ayn Rand in her younger years,, copied this photo from her website. Must be from the 1930's.

    ayn_rand_photo.JPG
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Capt Fun,

    Try the PDF, and Android and text to speech. Good for a long drive or when work gets mundane and boring.

    Fountainhead was probably better easier reading.

    Love the part where the guy figures out how to extract oil from shales.

    She had some great quotes. Fountainhead describes the mentality of the New York liberal. Still the same today.

    Listened to 4 of her books while working. Best stuff. Count of Monte Cristo was a letdown after Ayn Rand.
  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    I have read all of her books many times and have never found them to put me asleep. I may be weird because I also read all of Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Garet Garrett, Henry Hazlitt, etc.

    I just found this, enjoy.
    http://academy.mises.org/courses/atlas-free/
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