The largest block of text I’ve ever skipped.

I’ve been reading Atlas Strugged since mid November, picking it up and reading bits and pieces here and there. I decided to read it after it appeared like five times in the same week.

The end is in sight however with just 100 or so pages to go, and I’ve got complaints. If I were to meet them I wound smack most of the characters around. The use of “lighted” really bumps me out of the novel, everytime someone lights a cigarette. And of course the speeches made continuously are long winded. This came to a culmination when a speech is made in chapter 7 of part 3 that lasts from page 1009 to 1069. Sixty pages of rambling garbage about man and objectivism and blah, blah, blah. I, as said in the title, didn’t read 90% of it, I just gave up after 7 pages and started counting pages.

Well I’m just happy that I’m near the end of this book. Have I gained new philosophical stand points? Yes. Are they that of Objectivism? No. Does it involve punching out anyone who follows Objectivism? Yes.

I’m going to finally get around to reading Starship Troopers after I’m done with Atlas Shruged. With any hope I’ll enjoy it 100 times more than I’ve enjoyed Atlas Shrugged.