It's one of the most important books in post-war American history. That being said...a good 300 pages could've been shaved off and the same moral lesson would've been achieved.
The movie is going to completely ****ing bomb, though. How are they going to edit Galt's 80-page speech? That alone would take up three hours!
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Page 950 to 1000 hurt pretty bad...but the rest was very smooth sailing. Great book. The Fountainhead is much easier and more fun to read though. N-no morals? Did you understand a word she wrote?
Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions is the worst book I've ever attempted. His pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-satirical, arrogant hipster mentality and style are unbearable.
Also, any of Bukowski's poetry.
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bukowski is a one trick pony. never understood how he became so firmly entrenched in the literary canon.
i'm not the biggest vonnegut fan, but cat's cradle , welcome to the monkey house , and slaughterhouse-five are all quite good. especially cat's cradle.
when i was younger i would always sneak twain into the vonnegut section of the bookstore, as a private joke.
I've read both Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, trying so hard to like them (in high school right now Vonnegut is the big literary fad. I guess Palahniuk or however the hell you spell his name is loosing ground. He's just as bad.), but I just don't get it, for the reasons already mentioned.
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cat's cradle struck me as allegory, so the parallels i invented made it very rich indeed. slaughterhouse-five i can understand not enjoying.
palahniuk is bad. i read fight club roundabout six or seven years ago, thought it was neat, and i've disliked him slightly more every single day since. i prefer easton ellis, will self, or jg ballard when it comes to the transgressives.
i will say its Catcher in the Rye, i dont understand what that book abt, i dont understand it, i dont want to read it all over again, most worst book i ever read in my life, yes, i actually did tore that book up and threw it away in trash long time ago, LOL!
Artemis Fowl first book is actually boring, i means boring-o, but if u read whole series, u will say its amazing, but who have tolerances with read boring book, i do, most time i will leave that book in storage box for 2 years, then i find it again, and force myself to read whole book.... just like Eldest, its good book but impossible to done whole book in one day, it will kill me! LOL
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