Styles2112 Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 I thought this was funny. Especially since it took me almost three years to read Atlas Shrugged. http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ume...1ccc21f9f1d8671 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gags Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 link no worky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles2112 Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Then I'll try again...Here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_unicorn Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 That's absolutely priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 "War and Peace" would be more like it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrs Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 "Atlas Shrugged" is long, but I remember wishing that it was longer when I reached the end of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 I agree, when I get to the end of a great book such as Atlas Shrugged, I find myself wishing it was longer. I am not sure if it would actually be a good thing, though. Especially in the case of AS I doubt there are many, if any, important points Miss Rand didn't enter into the novel, and I don't think it would be a better book if she had included more information, like what would happen after the scene where the book ended, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles2112 Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 In all honesty, I found many of the speeches at the beginning of AS long and repetative. I thought the first 500 pages could've been shrunk down a bit, and the end expanded upon...but in the end, it would've been the same length. I mean, honestly, Fransisco's 20 page speech was just obnoxious. It took me three years to get through the beginning of the book, and two hours to read through the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMeganSnow Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 I mean, honestly, Fransisco's 20 page speech was just obnoxious. The longest speech Francisco makes in AS is the "Money" speech, and it's three pages long; I know, I typed it up to quote it for a friend that wanted an example of AR's writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olex Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 I don't get it. Why is that comic strip funny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 The longest speech Francisco makes in AS is the "Money" speech, and it's three pages long; I know, I typed it up to quote it for a friend that wanted an example of AR's writing. Ahh, I thought twenty seemed abit long...however three seems more like it. Personally I agree that AS could have gotten away with being longer, I would have liked it anyway. It was so good that even as long as it is I wanted at least a few dozen more pages or so. Franciscos money speech was almost exactly the right length I think, I cannot think of anything off the top of my head that might have made it any more effective/interesting. It could easily have been more than three pages, so you should be glad Ayn Rand was good at condensing things somewhat while still conveying often a fairly complex series of ideas, Styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMeganSnow Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Repetition in art is often a means of emphasis, too . . . ever read "Julius Caesar"? How many times does Marc Antony say "And Brutus is an honorable man"? But that speech is great, possibly one of Shakespeare's best. Reminds me of some idiot reviewer I read a while back, comparing AS to books like Ulysses and Catcher in the Rye, the latter two supposedly "at least having literary values" . . . wtf does that mean?! "Literary Values". Pfaugh. In context I have to believe it means something like "was impenetrable so my sad little mind shut down and my inferiority complex took over and assumed it was great because I didn't understand it." Here's a tip: undefined smears do not turn you into an authority. I don't get it. Why is that comic strip funny? Well, in theory, it's because the kid is claiming he wants to "warm up" for the test, but his teacher correctly construes that he is, in fact, stalling, and the kid gets defensive over it. However, I subscribe to the Scott Adams theory of humor: it's not funny if I have to explain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaszloWalrus Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 People who say that Atlas Shrugged has speeches that are too long remind me of the guy in Amadeus who said that Mozart's works have "too many notes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaight Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 People who say that Atlas Shrugged has speeches that are too long remind me of the guy in Amadeus who said that Mozart's works have "too many notes." I've noticed over the years that people who say they understood what Rand was trying to say in Atlas Shrugged without reading the speeches almost invariably did not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles2112 Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 I suppose, to my own defense, the speeches felt long because I ALREADY agreed with the premise, and I, being of lesser patience than others, wanted to get moving onto the plot. Regardless, the cartoon was not really meant as some kind of snotty intellectual humor. Just funny as a quick quip about the length of AS. I apologize to those who found no humor in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils_Advocate Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 "Atlas Shrugged" is long, but I remember wishing that it was longer when I reached the end of it. I don't think it's possible for it to be long enough. It should have gone through all 12 years of the strike, that would have been awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena glaukopis Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Here is one from a few years ago: I personally find them both to not be very funny.. but hey, they reference Ayn Rand, which I guess is good. But I think that they both do so in a barely-audible negative light, as if they are being referenced because they are so long ("tedious") instead of amazing and inspiring literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inertiatic Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 I've noticed over the years that people who say they understood what Rand was trying to say in Atlas Shrugged without reading the speeches almost invariably did not. Though I have to admit that I skipped most of Galt's speech just to get to the end. But yeah, I did go back to read it in its entirety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKD Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 And then there's that thing Officer Barbrady says in South Park. "After reading every page of this garbage i have decided to never read again" Now here's something I personally found rather confusing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B4pgo9Db6w Why did they do that? -PKD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinnacle Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 And then there's that thing Officer Barbrady says in South Park. "After reading every page of this garbage i have decided to never read again" Now here's something I personally found rather confusing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B4pgo9Db6w Why did they do that? -PKD Presumably because they are too barbaric to actually engage her ideas. "I can destroy it, therefore it is unimportant." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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