I like to think that even if they had brought an inexhaustible labor force of robots, the latter would have quickly said “Oh, you went Galt? Well we’re going Rossum.”
Someone wrote an article a few years back arguing that the scenes of Sam and Frodo in Mordor give a more accurate picture of an authoritarian state than Nineteen-Eighty-Four, in that the Orc guards are in disarray, too busy backstabbing each other for promotions or trying to figure out what to watch for given that their superiors don’t trust them with much information—and that’s what gives the hobbits just enough wiggle room to sneak through.
A couple of kids in our group got really psyched by her. I got a couple of her novels and never got more than a couple of pages in either.It was absolute drivel as far as writing was concerned.
I heard a story about a famous British DJ. He had dreamed of getting into the business and got a job on the pirate boat. Before he was taken out to the ship it was blown up, and it turned out a rival station in Denmark, or something, had blown it up.
OMG, YES!I think it tops the list of movies that are SOOO bad that they're good.
I read Rand as a teen too. Found it Incredibly predictable and juvenile
Chip there seems to be even less likeable, and even more delusional than Ayn, which is quite a feat.
I like to think that even if they had brought an inexhaustible labor force of robots, the latter would have quickly said “Oh, you went Galt? Well we’re going Rossum.”
It's only a few stores and will affect the employees much more than the stock prices of the company.
Ewwwww.
So, the protagonist commits mass genocide? And its not clever satire or something? What a godawful moral compass Rand must have had.
Only book I ever burned (to keep it from impressionable eyes).
No way.
Someone wrote an article a few years back arguing that the scenes of Sam and Frodo in Mordor give a more accurate picture of an authoritarian state than Nineteen-Eighty-Four, in that the Orc guards are in disarray, too busy backstabbing each other for promotions or trying to figure out what to watch for given that their superiors don’t trust them with much information—and that’s what gives the hobbits just enough wiggle room to sneak through.
If we didn’t have thighs we’d all be a lot shorter.
The swords books were short reads. I one that the two families flung at each other until they wiped each other out was probably my favorite.
Ta, Robyn. Solidarity forever.
A couple of kids in our group got really psyched by her. I got a couple of her novels and never got more than a couple of pages in either.It was absolute drivel as far as writing was concerned.
I heard a story about a famous British DJ. He had dreamed of getting into the business and got a job on the pirate boat. Before he was taken out to the ship it was blown up, and it turned out a rival station in Denmark, or something, had blown it up.
Empire Star, absolutely mind blowing to my young brain. Took me years to figure out that novella