Agreed, Kat re: Rand.
She would have made a good third wife to Heinlen.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 7:45:04 am PST #4118 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 27, 2005 7:47:30 am PST #4119 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ouch!
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 7:48:35 am PST #4120 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I make me laugh.
Kat - Jan 27, 2005 7:49:58 am PST #4121 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It makes me laugh too!
joe boucher - Jan 27, 2005 8:04:43 am PST #4122 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I think my Ayn Rand issue... rests around the idea that her whole philosophy was justification for behavior that was juvenile and selfish, unnecessarily self-important and self-indulgent and just generally crappy.
I agree, and I don't like her writing either. Objectionable content + unappealing style = I think I'll read something else. Such as Elvis Shrugged.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 8:06:06 am PST #4123 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I adored Fu Manchu. (I knew it was bad and Bad For Me; I just loved the over-the-top melodrama.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 27, 2005 8:11:01 am PST #4124 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
I don't know that it changed my life or anything, but I really liked Siddhartha. I dug the theme of duality.
Kat - Jan 27, 2005 8:13:56 am PST #4125 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
joe, she wrote one piece that I loved. It was the first chapter of one of her books. She described something about how the woman stood on the threshold of train door like a dancer in the wings, waiting before a performance. How she ended that chapter (bringing it around to that image), was succinct and just beautiful.
It stuck with me more so than objectivism itself.
Kat - Jan 27, 2005 8:15:04 am PST #4126 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
PC, most of his books deal with duality. It was Narcissus and Goldmand that got me. What a fantastic book. I'm a bit afraid to reread less I like it much less than I did then.
Calli - Jan 27, 2005 9:14:34 am PST #4127 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
I remember reading Beneath the Wheel as a break during finals. Bad, bad idea. Very bad.