softwareNerd Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) The Atlantic magazine, a pretty important publication when it comes to cultural commentary, plans to do a reading and discussion group on Atlas Shrugged. Edited February 13, 2013 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Wow some of those comments are bad - glad to see some good defense also though. This is a pretty popular magazine with a circulation around half-a-million according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations so good to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dormin111 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 An awesome post in the comments: "Again, inviting a "diversity" of opinions about the influence or importance of Atlas Shrugged is like inviting the Three Stooges to participate in a panel discussion of quantum mechanics. This idea has invited the usual suspects: trolls, cynics, the disappointed, the smear-masters, people who've not read the novel and just repeat what their professors or favorite critics have said about it, people who attempted to read it but were too lazy or predisposed to abandon something that challenged their PC premises, people who are simply mentally lazy, people whose reading tastes are too "sophisticated" to bother, the pseudo-intellectuals, the pseudo-literarti, and people who read the New York Times and Washington Post, and believe everything they read in those papers." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeatherFall Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 That comment came from Ed Cline, author of the Sparrowhawk series and, as far as I can tell, the sole remaining active contributor to The Rule of Reason blog, which cross-posts to this forum. Sometimes I think Cline is a little too verbose, and sometimes his writing is the only thing that makes me smile before 7:00am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IchorFigure Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have been meaning to re-read AS so maybe I'll try to sign up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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