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An interesting passage a little while before on attaching value to the things one buys and possesses. Of course, it was Gail Wynand saying this, so the words take on greater malice. But it's true that we tend to seek to see the things we own as special because we endow them with our ownership. Looking forward to being free of this oppressive book, haha.
— Jul 16, 2021 03:14PM
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Christopher
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Almost over the finish line. I'm going to want a stiff drink after this one. Already thinking about books for the next read. Maybe a great author Rand hated.
— Jul 16, 2021 11:47PM
Christopher
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Finally, the Howard Roark part. Home stretch. Two hundred pages to go. Maybe I can enjoy the denouement? Just think of how much trouble I could have saved if I had started skimming a lot sooner.
— Jul 16, 2021 11:03AM
Christopher
is on page 382 of 736
Just got to the part in which Dominique offers to marry Peter, and oh yeah, it just so happens to be right after he and Catherine make their plan to run away and marry. Good grief what a disappointing book. Had no clue I was in for such a salacious soap opera.
— Jul 14, 2021 07:26PM
Christopher
is on page 312 of 736
Just a few of the book's many nonsensical aphorisms:
'I'd rather be kind than right.'
'Mercy is superior to justice.'
'The brain is a superstition.'
'The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony.'
— Jul 14, 2021 01:18PM
'I'd rather be kind than right.'
'Mercy is superior to justice.'
'The brain is a superstition.'
'The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony.'
Christopher
is on page 308 of 736
I think I've read no other book in which so much has been pulled spontaneously out of one ass. Broad pronouncements on the meanings of things, human behavior, outrageous and antithetical conclusions. If there's any diamond in this philosophy, it's buried in tons of shit.
— Jul 14, 2021 12:28PM
Christopher
is on page 303 of 736
I think a true thing to say about this book is that it is ironic--it aspires to do noble and great things, like Howard Roark, but it relies on trashy, mediocre plotting popular for the time, so it's more like the imposter Peter Keating.
— Jul 13, 2021 05:11PM
Christopher
is on page 272 of 736
It's a funny thing when you give up on a book. You relax, and the book, the writing, and the characters don't mean as much anymore. Now I just want to finish it and call it done. This could have been a much better story as a novella, like Anthem, and without the trashy plotting.
— Jul 13, 2021 12:57AM
Christopher
is on page 261 of 736
Finally dawning on me how trashy this is, and how in denial I've been about it. I can be maddeningly slow on the uptake sometimes.
— Jul 12, 2021 09:07PM
Christopher
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"He whispered involuntarily:
"Dominique, who was he?"
No, Ms. Rand. You're giving him too much credit. Men are much dumber than that.
— Jul 12, 2021 08:17PM
"Dominique, who was he?"
No, Ms. Rand. You're giving him too much credit. Men are much dumber than that.
