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Again!

I must really remember to put these things in my main entry for a day, because otherwise... I dunno. ANYWHO.

While on vacation, I discovered something that everyone needs to do as soon as possible.

Read "Atlas Shrugged" By Ayn Rand. Read it now, and don't complain that its a thousand pages, just do it. Read. Really.

I do read a ton, which might have helped, but a thousand pages isn't really that much.
Most people who saw me reading that book gave me a variety of strange looks, from those who had read it, "Why, isn't it strange that such a young person should be interested in that book?" To those who had obviously at least heard of the book, or had even tried to read it, "How dare that scruffy kid be reading something that I gave up on?" To the people who came right out and said "I would never read something that long" (those made me cry) The whole 4 days I was reading it, I only had one person come up to me and actually comment on the book. He was an even scruffier looking college student, who was only about 3 years older than me, and it was his favorite book. Sweet.

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  • Blogger Flash says so:
    5:12 PM  

    There was a rather fabulous episode of South Park once involving a crazy chicking shagging book guy. Over the course of the episode Officer Barbrady learns to read & the book he reads first is "Atlas shrugged". He vows never to read anything ever again.
    And that's all I know about that! top