Atlas Shrugged Movie

[Rosie the Riveter]

I'll admit it is one of my favorite books of all time and I've read it countless times.

You read Atlas Shrugged countless times?! ???

Yes, about once a year or every other year between 1989 and now.  I can't remember how many times I have read it --that makes it countless to me. It is one of my favorites and I am a book geek. I read a book like da vinci code in one night if that helps put it in perspective. So Atlas Shrugged is a two maybe three nighter.

[Ragnar76]

It certainly impacted my life like no other book had before or has since...hope they don't mess it up 

[Kat Kanning]

I'm re-reading it now. 

[burnthebeautiful]

I'm in the process of reading it for the first time. I am at the beginning of part 3, where Dagny has just spent her first night in Galts Gulch. Unlike Error, I am a slow reader, and it has taken me months to get this far. Well it's not that I'm a slow reader, it's that I don't read very often. At the most I read 5 pages once every 2-3 nights.

[error]

At that rate you might finish in two years!

[burnthebeautiful]

The sad thing is it has actually taken me about 7-8 months for me to get this far in the book
I picked up the pace about 3 weeks ago, though. Past 3 weeks or so I've been reading 10 pages or so every night, compared to 4-5 pages once a week before...

I used to read so much as a kid, I'd get home from school and just read non-stop until bed-time, and even then I'd often try to sneakily read with a flash-light under the blanket without my mother noticing. Then when I got older and the books in the kids section became too childish, and I suddenly had the entire library to choose from, I became too lazy. With the entire library to choose from, I had to decide which books to borrow in advance, rather than just go to the kids section and look at the titles until I found one that seemed interesting. Kind of socialist of me, to stop doing something because of too much choice...

[Dreepa]

It certainly impacted my life like no other book had before or has since...hope they don't mess it up 

Hollywood not mess up a script?  Nah.............

[slim]

I am listening to the book. I love books on mp3 lets me consume books while I am at work.

[Rosie the Riveter]

I'm re-reading it now. 

It is the most fun as a re-read 

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'll admit it is one of my favorite books of all time and I've read it countless times.

You read Atlas Shrugged countless times?! ???

Yes, about once a year or every other year between 1989 and now.  I can't remember how many times I have read it --that makes it countless to me. It is one of my favorites and I am a book geek. I read a book like da vinci code in one night if that helps put it in perspective. So Atlas Shrugged is a two maybe three nighter.

As a speed reading snob in a former life, I questioned this claim.  I did the math and found that a reasonably fast reader could read AS in less than 8 hours.  I could have read it in about 5 hours at my fastest.
Wkpedia claims 645,000 words, but, that is probably high as book people say it wouldn't fit it the number of pages.  I figured it at 500,000.

When I was in HS in the 60's they discovered that a lot of Johnnys and Janeys couldn't read.  So they clipped a couple of study halls for a semester and had us attend reading classes.  It wasn't long before the teacher and I became competitors
I could read at about 1700 wpm at the time.  My comprehension at that speed was about 80%, which bothered me until I found out that was average at any speed.

Both of my parents read a lot,  mainly paperback crap of the day, but, there was no room for coffee on the coffee table due to the piles of books about Ancient Egypt and various lost civilizations.   Mom could read and speak Latin, and, literally, knew something about everything.

[Rosie the Riveter]

I'll admit it is one of my favorite books of all time and I've read it countless times.

You read Atlas Shrugged countless times?! ???

Yes, about once a year or every other year between 1989 and now.  I can't remember how many times I have read it --that makes it countless to me. It is one of my favorites and I am a book geek. I read a book like da vinci code in one night if that helps put it in perspective. So Atlas Shrugged is a two maybe three nighter.

As a speed reading snob in a former life, I questioned this claim.  I did the math and found that a reasonably fast reader could read AS in less than 8 hours.  I could have read it in about 5 hours at my fastest.
Wkpedia claims 645,000 words, but, that is probably high as book people say it wouldn't fit it the number of pages.  I figured it at 500,000.

When I was in HS in the 60's they discovered that a lot of Johnnys and Janeys couldn't read.  So they clipped a couple of study halls for a semester and had us attend reading classes.  It wasn't long before the teacher and I became competitors
I could read at about 1700 wpm at the time.  My comprehension at that speed was about 80%, which bothered me until I found out that was average at any speed.

Both of my parents read a lot,  mainly paperback crap of the day, but, there was no room for coffee on the coffee table due to the piles of books about Ancient Egypt and various lost civilizations.   Mom could read and speak Latin, and, literally, knew something about everything.

Lloyd -- you dare question  -- I don't think I read super fast -- I just don't sleep when I'm reading a good book. I can remember da vinci code was read from 10pm to 4am straight through. Humm -- actually I guess that is fast, but da vinci code is a light read -I read those big Harry Potter books in one night too - Am I a genuis? 

I'll have to time myself next time I read AS and let you know -- the print is small but it is still fun fiction and not dry text book. Humm- A night for me is 6 hours of reading so that is 12+ hours for AS.  Sounds right for a normal smart reader.



 

[eques]

I don't remember how quickly I read The Da Vinci Code, but it went quickly.

Atlas Shrugged, however, was... like eating chalk.  I got the ideas--comprehending them wasn't a problem for me.  It was just Rand's style that I found difficult to digest... it was commonplace for me to pick it up, read 3-4 pages, and put it down again.  John Galt's speech in particular just pissed me off (again, not because of the content, but the presentation).

[Lloyd Danforth]

The speeches really do slow you down

[Rosie the Riveter]

I don't remember how quickly I read The Da Vinci Code, but it went quickly.

Atlas Shrugged, however, was... like eating chalk.  I got the ideas--comprehending them wasn't a problem for me.  It was just Rand's style that I found difficult to digest... it was commonplace for me to pick it up, read 3-4 pages, and put it down again.  John Galt's speech in particular just pissed me off (again, not because of the content, but the presentation).

I guess I just love eating chalk 

[slim]

I guess I just love eating chalk 

What color I like the pink chalk the best