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Shut up Krig you don't even know how to read.
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July 9th, 2007, 08:32 PM
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Anyway I don't like GMD anymore, I've decided over the past week I hate all of you and don't even have fun here anymore because very few of you can actually hold their end of a conversation with me, and most of the time it's just me pulling out my hair out of disbelief of how stupid some of you are. Have nice lives, except BigDave, I can't wait till the day you die. Honestly, I think you're a sorry excuse for a person and would not feel remorse in the least if you died tomorrow. Painfully.
Love,
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July 9th, 2007, 08:39 PM
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Hhahaha, okay okay bye.
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July 9th, 2007, 09:00 PM
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Ayn Rand is hilariously shitastic.
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No fucking kidding. Atlas Shrugged made me 
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July 10th, 2007, 03:16 PM
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I think not.
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Ayn Rand is hilariously shitastic.
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July 10th, 2007, 07:17 PM
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lol... I should take a picture of the Lichtenstein-like rip off of a cartoon I made of Atlas Shrugged in high school for you all to see.... It's lame.
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July 10th, 2007, 07:20 PM
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Atlas Shrugged is a good book, but when Rand goes on and on regarding detail, it sometimes reminds me of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and I think Hawthorne is fucking awful.
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July 11th, 2007, 10:49 PM
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wins.
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Atlas Shrugged is a good book, but when Rand goes on and on regarding detail, it sometimes reminds me of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and I think Hawthorne is fucking awful.
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First off, Hawthorne dominates Ayn Rand so hard it's not even funny. The Scarlet Letter alone > everything Rand ever put on paper.
Secondly, here's a detailed explanation of why Atlas Shrugged is not, in fact, a good book. I think we can all agree that it's not particularly well-written, and that the plot alone is uninteresting (no sudden twists or anything) except in what it implies; in other words, the whole thing is just a vehicle for her to espouse her philosophy. That would be fine and all, except that her philosophy is totally fucking ridiculous. "Objectivism" is one of those special few ideas that succeeds at being both totally impractical *and* totally immoral at the same time.
What makes it worse is that Rand not only sucked (hard), she was also incredibly pretentious as she went about her sucking. To paraphrase the introduction to Atlas Shrugged, "books can only do three things: tell an old idea in an old way, tell an old idea in a new way, or tell a new idea in a new way, and as far as I know I'm the only one doing the latter." Hmmm. I wonder why nobody ever suggested that being selfish shortsighted assholes would be a good model for society?
Bah.
(Also the reason you dislike it when Rand goes into detail might have something to do with her characters being soulless bores.)
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July 11th, 2007, 10:57 PM
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The Scarlet Letter alone > everything Rand ever put on paper.
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July 12th, 2007, 04:08 PM
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Indeed 
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