tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post24962809913110499..comments2024-02-20T12:12:03.700+02:00Comments on Read with Style: The Man VS the State - Rand in the USSRLorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-74944321630048235032011-01-19T03:20:56.985+02:002011-01-19T03:20:56.985+02:00Hey Rokosh,
I have also read the Fountainhead an...Hey Rokosh, <br /><br />I have also read the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. These books changed my life and my perceptions for real. That is why I am still reluctant to comment about them in my blog. I feel that whatever I say for them, especially for Atlas Shrugged, will not be enough. I also fear that if I attempt to write a review about them, it will take half the blog. I have so much to sayLorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-85799558543700408672011-01-18T14:51:29.246+02:002011-01-18T14:51:29.246+02:00Hi, just came across your blog- very interesting s...Hi, just came across your blog- very interesting selection of books.<br />I had read "Fountainhead" years ago (I am an architect so it was almost required reading for us!) and found most of her concepts very abstruse.<br />"Atlas Shrugged" was a LOT clearer and brought out her philosophy of the heroic individual whose immense talents get drowned by the sea of mediocrity that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-82156338555202131972010-11-12T12:13:48.435+02:002010-11-12T12:13:48.435+02:00I just looked at it on Amazon. I am going to order...I just looked at it on Amazon. I am going to order it today and start it right away when it arrives :)<br /><br />Thanks.Lorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-83805911677087900542010-11-12T00:12:28.007+02:002010-11-12T00:12:28.007+02:00Look forward to reading your review and take on Li...Look forward to reading your review and take on Life of Pi. <br /><br />They have started filming for the movie now. 75 million dollar budget and no Hollywood stars in it to take up all the cash. That's got to have some impressive special effects to tell the story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-19710985400634917072010-08-18T16:53:36.817+03:002010-08-18T16:53:36.817+03:00I would be sure to check it out after I finish Cla...I would be sure to check it out after I finish Clavell's King Rat, quite a manly book to be honest. <br /><br />By the way, next time you post can I ask you to share your name. I feel weird talking to Anonymous.Lorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-33271353305428364452010-08-17T22:18:47.930+03:002010-08-17T22:18:47.930+03:00Nah, those books are a joke. Try "Life of Pi&...Nah, those books are a joke. Try "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, but I wouldn't bother reading the reviews as most of them give away the twist. It's a very highly rated book and cleverly written story, that's all I will say on it. Those who think laterally will understand what is going on pretty early, but for the more linear thinkers it will seem pretty jumbled right up to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-52403860233498071062010-08-16T22:40:44.177+03:002010-08-16T22:40:44.177+03:00Are they any good? What are the books about? Do yo...Are they any good? What are the books about? Do you recommend them?<br /><br />I agree that unfortunately society will continue understanding egoism as something bad. I still hope that by spreading the view more and more people will realize that taking care of your own good is an admirable thing, and not something to be judged for.Lorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-37303680889497202292010-08-11T22:09:55.097+03:002010-08-11T22:09:55.097+03:00The perverted happiness you describe sounds a bit ...The perverted happiness you describe sounds a bit like a bunch of Vikings on the pillage or Genghis Khan on a stag-do in Amsterdam lol. But joking aside, I do understand that it is not about being selfish in the context of how most people understand the term selfish. ie being self centred and not giving a shit about anyone else and taking the moral low ground to achieve ones pursuits. But Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-57000710024620765752010-08-10T20:13:58.704+03:002010-08-10T20:13:58.704+03:00You might not be a fan of Rand but your views are ...You might not be a fan of Rand but your views are actually closer to her philosophy of objectivisim than you realize. Indeed, she also agrees that we must take in all life has to offer by following a set of moral principles. One has the right (and the obligation for that matter) to pursue his/her happiness by following a set of moral principles. I do not mean that if one kills, steals, or rapes Lorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-19175078819622393372010-08-09T02:22:24.665+03:002010-08-09T02:22:24.665+03:00I'm not fan of Rand myself. I wasted a big par...I'm not fan of Rand myself. I wasted a big part of my life reading books on metaphysics, overwhelming myself by questions of meaning and significance of it all and have come to the conclusion that our mere presence is amazing, everything in the universe had to be just a certain way for our whole world to exist with flourishing life( to name all the conditions that need to be met for this to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-42654277917193567712010-07-06T18:54:23.389+03:002010-07-06T18:54:23.389+03:00one of my favorite authors and booksone of my favorite authors and booksLorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-6630284334812571192010-06-21T16:23:44.832+03:002010-06-21T16:23:44.832+03:00I agree that one cannot judge about communism in R...I agree that one cannot judge about communism in Russia by a single book. Indeed, Rand was very young when she flee the country, still she lived there for 20 years and wrote the novel long after that, under the impressions of capitalism in the USA. In that sense she might be deceived, still I find her novel descriptive of the horrors and deprivations of that time. I would like very much to read aLorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561307383920420313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433094950319142561.post-63545961126239676892010-06-20T13:03:31.262+03:002010-06-20T13:03:31.262+03:00Hi,
I was very curious to read about Ayn Rand'...Hi,<br />I was very curious to read about Ayn Rand's first book - We the living. The author lived in the USSR, when she was very young. That is why the book is not found on the personal impressions and experience and I think it isn't completely objective. To understand this time and this regime it would be good to read different books and "to see"h different opinions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com