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VA, USA
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Posted: 6/18/2020 5:52:22 AM EDT
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You should read 1984, it's awesome and is my favorite book that I've read. On long road trips I listen to the audio book. It never gets old.
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Posted: 3/23/2022 8:30:09 PM EDT
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I found that 1984 is a movie on one of the streaming services a while back. It was ok. Maybe I'll look for the audio book.
What's 2+2? "I don't know"... That part was pretty messed up. |
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Posted: 3/23/2022 8:37:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MisterPX: Gets better once you get to the WI car factory. Still, 65 hours of audio? I don't recall it taking that much time to read. Reading to yourself is a lot faster than speaking every word, especially comprehensibly. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 3/23/2022 9:04:55 PM EDT
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Movie series was one of the most embarrassing efforts at story telling and acting I've ever seen. Absolute shit.
The book does not translate well to an audio book and should be read. IMO... |
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Posted: 3/23/2022 9:57:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Justintime2: Movie series was one of the most embarrassing efforts at story telling and acting I've ever seen. Absolute shit. The book does not translate well to an audio book and should be read. IMO... I enjoyed the movie series. It could have been done better for sure but I will probably watch it again. The version of the audiobook that I listened to was pretty well done. I wouldn't have sat and read the book. |
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Posted: 4/7/2022 5:10:34 PM EDT
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I’m slowly grinding my way through the audiobook. It’s stupendously tedious and it’s like doing homework listening to it. It’s made worse by the fact that I can’t stand the narrator. There’s another version read by Scott Brick and I enjoy his narration. Problem is that his version is 10 hours longer due to his reading it more slowly. And I’ll have to burn another Audible credit. Probably the thing to do, though. Then I can at least listen to a tedious book read in a non-annoying voice.
My wife and I love the movies. They’re admittedly really bad but we still enjoy them and get a laugh from the badness and the 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 10:37:52 PM EDT
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If you have a library card, your library may have audiobooks to loan.
I use an app called "overdrive" to link up with the library and borrow audiobooks. The copy I listened to was through the library. Scott brick was the narrator. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 10:44:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sgtlmj: You make it through Galt's speech yet? That's the part in the book that I skimmed. I have listened to the audiobook three times now (long daily drive) and I had to fast forward over Gault's speech the last two times. It is 3 hours and is extremely repetitive with most of the points covered in the rest of the book. It gets better as the book progresses so hang on if you can. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/9/2022 10:56:50 PM EDT
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It's so good!
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/6/2022 12:45:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By That_Guy_MA: I'll be honest, it's best read Freshman / Sophomore year of high school. The messaging is good and it's a decent novel, but it's not a literary masterpiece. Have you read Dostoevsky? I agree. As a wide eyed 19 year old I devoured that book; it meant so much to me. It set an intellectual fire in me and led to me becoming a voracious reader in that formative times of my life. I've tried to re-read it several times and just can't do it. I find none of the stimulation or wonder; it's soggy. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/6/2022 12:49:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: I found that 1984 is a movie on one of the streaming services a while back. It was ok. Maybe I'll look for the audio book. What's 2+2? "I don't know"... That part was pretty messed up. Man I love that film. Sir Richard Burton, John Hurt, and the so young Ms. Hamilton. Maybe I need to revisit it like trying to read Atlas Shrugged and I may find that I think it sucks as well. |
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Posted: 7/28/2022 11:26:22 AM EDT
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the book is a drag even if you 100% agree with every point being made. It could easily be 2/3s the length and not lose anything with regards to the themes and points being made
I'd skip multiple pages at a time and the characters would still be in the same long ass dragging on conversation |
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Posted: 7/28/2022 11:32:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sgtlmj: You make it through Galt's speech yet? That's the part in the book that I skimmed. Talk about an author in desperate need of an editor. |
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USA
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Posted: 8/21/2022 7:19:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: The dude who has the mines from Argentina is a pretty interesting character. Instead of just disappearing he's trying to burn it all. Yeah but that Ragnar the-pirate-dude is a guns/ammo/weapons nut and, in the last movie, was a major league bad-ass. |
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ME, USA
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Posted: 10/3/2022 7:07:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bohr_Adam: I've read the book twice. Have never once read that whole radio address. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bohr_Adam: Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: The Fountainhead is a great book. Atlas Shrugged sucks. I love a big long book (I read 200-400 pages a day.) But Atlas is filled with repetitive and unnecessary shit, and isn't nearly as good as the Fountainhead. Really, the deal breaker is the 'Radio Address.' At this point we're like 700+ pages into the book. Her political point has been made many times over. But no, she decides to do another 30 pages of direct, political soliloquy. Ultimately its insulting to the readers intelligence, and also just further drops the overall enjoyability. I've read the book twice. Have never once read that whole radio address. How about Francisco d’Anconia’s monologue at the dinner party? I seem to remember it being 61 pages in the edition I read. The book could have been 1/3 as long without leaving anything even remotely important out. |
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Posted: 10/3/2022 7:17:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ME2112: How about Francisco d’Anconia’s monologue at the dinner party? I seem to remember it being 61 pages in the edition I read. The book could have been 1/3 as long without leaving anything even remotely important out. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ME2112: Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam: Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: The Fountainhead is a great book. Atlas Shrugged sucks. I love a big long book (I read 200-400 pages a day.) But Atlas is filled with repetitive and unnecessary shit, and isn't nearly as good as the Fountainhead. Really, the deal breaker is the 'Radio Address.' At this point we're like 700+ pages into the book. Her political point has been made many times over. But no, she decides to do another 30 pages of direct, political soliloquy. Ultimately its insulting to the readers intelligence, and also just further drops the overall enjoyability. I've read the book twice. Have never once read that whole radio address. How about Francisco d’Anconia’s monologue at the dinner party? I seem to remember it being 61 pages in the edition I read. The book could have been 1/3 as long without leaving anything even remotely important out. Nope. Read that both times. Don't recall the length. D'Anconia is one of the more interesting characters in the story, and one of the more problematic in terms of the "philosophy." |
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ME, USA
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Posted: 10/4/2022 12:13:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bohr_Adam: Nope. Read that both times. Don't recall the length. D'Anconia is one of the more interesting characters in the story, and one of the more problematic in terms of the "philosophy." Yeah, it seems all the OTHER major characters are much more interesting than Dagny. d’Anconia, Reardon, Ellis, Galt, even Wesley Mouch and her brother in their own ways. |
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