What Are You Reading Right Now?

erin_adaze · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:33 pm

arollo wrote:

I could never get into The Fountainhead, it's too....Ayn Rand. Have you ever read Anthem, though? It's really good.

If you are interested, you should read "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Robert Tressell. It's the exact opposite of The Fountainhead, you may enjoy it just because it is basically an argument for the "other side". I'm going to give "The Fountainhead" another chance, I assure you.

Yeah, I read Anthem for English a few years ago. That's what got me into Ayn Rand in the first place.

That sounds really interesting... I'll certainly have to check it out. Thanks.

BettyOakes · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:55 pm

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ChuckBS · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:52 pm

lex wrote:

ChuckBS wrote:

Which steven King books?

The Stand (I've been reading this on and off for about 6 months) I've already read it, I just randomly read it again lots of times. I'm also reading Misery, which I've never read. I might start Cujo too, I love horror anything basically.

I really liked the stand, I read that after eading the dark tower series, which I'm still in love with. steven king wrote an awsome non-fiction book about horror called danse macbre.

**billy pilgrim** · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:04 pm

I just started Catch 22 on Wednesday. So far I really really like it.

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Pepe · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:09 am

I'm a-reading "The Human Situation" by Aldous Huxley. I like it so far, he was so far ahead of his time.

arollo · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:45 am

Pepe wrote:

I'm a-reading "The Human Situation" by Aldous Huxley. I like it so far, he was so far ahead of his time.

I need to read that book he wrote about dropping acid. It sounds crazy.

Ever read "Brave New World"? It's terrifying how close he hit it.....I just wish that we had islands for people who hate everything.

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Ross · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:57 am

Brave New World is one of my favourite books, I simply love that story.

I first read it when I was about 10, I was quite shocked by what the kids were actually doing at the start.

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Pepe · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:19 am

Haha, I've never read it but I'm picking it up next time I go home if I can find it, I meant to look for it over easter when I was home but my dad's books are all over the place right now. So I just picked it up figuring it would be the next best thing. I've heard Brave New World is much better though. No spoilerz plz!

Joaquin_Honest · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:18 am

erin_adaze wrote:

I just finished The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I've read it like a thousand times, but it's one of my absolute favorite books, and it's one of those where every time you read it you notice something new.

I just finished As I Lay Dying for English too... Crappy band, but excellent read if you like Faulkner.

I love The Fountainhead. The philosophy behind I like fairly well, too, but I'm not all about it. One of the things I love and hate about her is that she says if you're only going to take a some of the things from the philosophy then do so but don't call yourself an objectivist. If you're going to call yourself an objectivist you have to adhere to every tenent of the philosophy. It was like an atheistic religion. I admit that I'm really partial to the egotist philosophy.

erin_adaze · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:59 pm

arollo wrote:

Ever read "Brave New World"? It's terrifying how close he hit it.....I just wish that we had islands for people who hate everything.

*sigh* I adoooooooore Brave New World. I'm writing my Senior Paper on it, actually. Huxley and Vonnegut are my two favorite authors.

Speaking of Vonnegut, anyone into Slaughterhouse-Five? Cat's Cradle?

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I love The Fountainhead. The philosophy behind I like fairly well, too, but I'm not all about it. One of the things I love and hate about her is that she says if you're only going to take a some of the things from the philosophy then do so but don't call yourself an objectivist. If you're going to call yourself an objectivist you have to adhere to every tenent of the philosophy. It was like an atheistic religion. I admit that I'm really partial to the egotist philosophy.

Agreed. She challenges what you believe. That's why I love her books so much, because occasionally I think that everyone needs to be challenged. You know?

**billy pilgrim** · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:23 pm

Hee hee hee
I am a big fan of Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle is one of my favorite books.

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Pepe · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:12 am

erin_adaze wrote:

*sigh* I adoooooooore Brave New World. I'm writing my Senior Paper on it, actually. Huxley and Vonnegut are my two favorite authors.

Speaking of Vonnegut, anyone into Slaughterhouse-Five? Cat's Cradle?

Ohhh man, I finished Slaughterhouse-Five about a month ago. So it goes.

Like a Star @ heaven

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ClockworkRobot · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:53 am

agreed. I read it on the plane coming home. loved it.

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mary! · Subject: Re: What Are You Reading Right Now? Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:36 pm

Cosmic Serpent. I have two chapters left. I've been reading it for a while and it's not a hard book at all, I just tend to re read chapters because I'm not the brightest bulb when it comes to anthropology and science in general.