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Congrats on reaching the 35 goal! Looks like 50 will be easy for you! What did you think of Ayn Rand's Anthem. I've read part of The Fountainhead and really liked it but haven't finished it or picked up any other books of hers. And how about Lauren Conrad's book? I didn't even know she wrote ... 31- The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
32- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
33- Anthem by Ayn Rand
34- Soul Harvest by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
35- Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
36- L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad How fun! Great idea to put them all in one thread.
Best of 2009
January
Fiction: Anthem by Ayn Rand
Nonfiction: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho and Anne Carson (poetry)
February
Fiction: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Nonfiction: The Mother Tongu ... ... - Ray Bradbury
2. Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
4. 1984 - George Orwell
5. Anthem - Ayn Rand
6. Farenheit 451
7. Alas, Babylon
8. I am Legend - I guess sci-fi? Horror?
9. World War Z same as above?
10. Johnny and the Bomb - Terry Pra ... ... bring it down with talk of vampire novels! ;)
Perhaps a separate Ayn Rand topic is in order? For me, I was drawn to Anthem because I was reading a lot of dystopias - Brave New World, etc off of my parents bookshelves. And I read We the Living because its about the Russian Revolution/ ... >34, Too true about Ayn Rand. I read We the Living and Anthem when I was a teenager and was so caught up in the stories, shaking my fist, "damn" the man. Only after I finished reading them did I realize her deeply creepy philosophy.
I'm new, btw. Murr invited me a while back, but I was ... ...
2. Artemis Fowl
3. Stormbreaker in Graphic Novel Version
4. The Wish List
5. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
6. Anthem
7. Heir Apparent
are all decent books I would recommend for younger scifi fans. geneg in Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 27, 2009, 3:21pm) ... but mostly non-fiction. Started with lots of Barbara Tuchman. Somewhere in this period I read my first Ayn Rand, Anthem I believe. It seemed pretty over the top to me. I also took a stab at de Sade during this period. Was pretty disgusted and didn't finish. It was at this time that I ... ... the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Death of Ivan Illyich, The Awakening, more poetry and short stories.
We also did Anthem and something(s) by Dickens at some point.
Sorry that this list is incomplete. I'm sure we read probably double what I listed. I always remember having reading ... Modern Library's Top 100
1. Anthem by Ayn Rand
2. Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough's
3. The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein
4. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
5. Greenmantle by Charles de Lint
6. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
7. It by Stephen King
8. Appointment ... Some of my favorite books that I've read in class were Anthem, The Illustrated Man, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Like #2, I think more world literature in the curriculum would be nice. I got a little bit of world literature in English I or II, but it consisted of a ... My only Ayn Rand experience is Anthem. If I remember correctly, the first line is "It is a sin to write this." By the time I got to the last line ("The sacred word: EGO." or something like that) I was in complete agreement with the first line. That wouldn't cause the brain to "melt"? And Anthem is rather short, which is out of character for Rand's usual capitalist-fascist logorrhea. I wonder if reading Anathem and Anthem simultaneously would cause brain-meltage? ... that was my only reading material. I needed to make it last.
I had an idea how bad it was going to be because I had read Anthem and The Fountainhead before. Both had been assigned in class not because of Rand's (nonexistent) stature as a writer but because the Ayn Rand Institute bribes ... ... K. A Stroke of Midnight. 385 pages. 1.16.09
6. Hamilton, Laurell K. The Harlequin. 422 pages. 1.23.09.
7. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
8. Hamilton, Laurell K. Mistral's Kiss. 302 pages. 1.28.09.
9. Armstrong, Kelley. Men of the Otherwold. 369 pages. 1.29.09.
10. Glaspell, S ... 16. Anthemby Ayn Rand
Just got done with this, talk about a fast read! I must say I didn't really like it. I've read 1984 and it's hard not to compare other dystopian novels to it. So while I was reading Anthem I kept thinking about 1984 and how I much rather be reading that. I want to read Br ... ... whether or not you agree with Objectivism.
I definitely recommend you read it. Personally, I think it's better than Anthem as a next read though, of course, the latter is trivially short. Rand's Anthem is definitely SF.
One could also make a case for Atlas Shrugged, due to the engine that Galt invents and the superweapon the government invents. >15 - I love your terminology - "mountaintop epiphany" indeed. Yes, that's Anthem, all right.
Oh, come now, that gives narcissists a very bad name. People may love themselves for the exact opposite reasons, after all. Loving oneself doesn't mean being a silly little bigot. Is Anthem the one in which a man and a woman (boy and girl) go Galt and wind up having a mountaintop epiphany of the concept of the ego?
If yes, I read that many, many years ago and thought it pretty silly. I think narcissism is the central requirement for understanding Rand. ... Into the wish-list it goes.
I didn't say "I" a lot, but I praised the crap out of Ayn Rand, her "philosophy," and Anthem. Felt disgusting yet hilarious writing it. Horrifyingly forced bull. Also, the structure of the essay was bad because I essentially spent one day writing the ... On the topic of Ayn Rand, I entered an essay contest regarding Anthem. If I get nothing out of reading that ridiculous thing and writing that ridiculous paper, I will be very sad. The book is very thin (not to mention the type is huge), and it still took me months to slog through it. Unbelievably ... ... was okay. That, however, is simply not the case. This is one of the few books I dislike with a passion, right up there with Anthem (also very forced 'symbolism') and Cry, the Beloved Country (is it really English I'm seeing written in this book?). If anyone can make a good argument for it, I'm ... Brave New World and Anthem are my two favorite dystopian books, and I think Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn series is great.
I do not watch many movies, and have not seen any that I would classify as dystopian. ... in the YA section of the book store. It may be simplistic, but it works for me.
Oh! And here in Texas, Ayn Rand's Anthem is a required school read. ... ner
A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin
AD 381 - Freeman
AK - Peter Dickinson
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Avalon::The Return of the King - Stephen Lawhead
The Basalisk - N M Browne
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Boy's ... ... 05/09/09
143. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare 05/09/09
144. How Fiction Works by James Wood 05/10/09
145. Anthem by Ayn Rand 05/10/09 144. How Fiction Works by James Wood 05/10/09
145. Anthem by Ayn Rand 05/10/09 21. Anthem - Ayn Rand
For some reason I skipped over this tiny little book when going through my Ayn Rand phase, starting with The Fountainhead and then moving onto Atlas Shrugged and We the Living. Of these, We the Living is by far the best for my money, for the simple reason that ... I think the worst thing I have read this year is Anthem - Ayn Rand. I have read worse books though. Anything by Dan Brown for instance (although his writing style is not terrible - I just can't stand the pathetic plot holes and the terrible research).
I also have been reading Murakami and have ... ... ner
A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin
AD 381 - Freeman
AK - Peter Dickinson
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Avalon::The Return of the King Stephen Lawhead
The Basalisk - N M Browne
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Boy's ... ... fel
Secret Song by Catherine Coulter
Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky
Calypso Magic by Catherine Coulter
Anthem by Ayn Rand
My 10 Favorite:
1. Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
2. Anthem - Ayn Rand
3. Dracula - Bram Stoker
4. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
5. Abhorsen trilogy - Garth Nix
6. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
7. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8. One Flew Over the ... ... 0.09.
4. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 189 pages. 3.12.09.
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Classic Novels
1. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
2. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 303 pages. 2.4.09.
3. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.0 ... ... 0.09.
4. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 189 pages. 3.12.09.
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Classic Novels
1. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
2. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 303 pages. 2.4.09.
3. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.0 ... It was founded on such missmaddie ... Anthem is an example of reversing that trend to the extreme. Pretty much that has been replaced with the welfare state long since. I read Ayn Rand's Anthem in my teens, and it did make on an impression on me (jseger9000 #2). The story is just so true to my beliefs that I continue to hold it in high esteem.
andyl #14 - I'm not so surprised that the US follows Rand. After all the US is founded on liberty and capitalism, yes? ... If you (meaning someone curious not some particular 'you') want a look at perhaps the best of Ayn Rand's fiction, try Anthem. It's a short story and you can read it for free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1250
... up the subject of environmental terrorism.
Distopias
Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Rand's Anthem, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange all can get discussions going. However, the discussions are often one-sided because you often get of a lot of people just agreeing ... Rush actually has a song called Anthem. ... shallow you were in high school. I am so grateful to my English teachers that the only Ayn Rand they inflicted on me was Anthem, short enough that I escaped the serious brain damage that seems to occur to any young person who reads much Ayn Rand. Unfortunately, Alan Greenspan did not escape, ... ... is there a way of saying you have NO interest in a book/author, and for LT to not show it again (for me, only, of course). Anthem keeps showing up. And as much as i appreciate the irony of the default LT cover for Anthem looking remarkably like classic Soviet realism art, i'd just as soon not ... ... and LisaMorr- I've been meaning to read some Rand, but don't always have time to sit down with long novels, so I thought Anthem would serve as a good introduction. I would highly suggest it. I really want to check out Atlas Shrugged as well, but that may be saved for a summer read. I love The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, but have never gotten around to Anthem. Your blurb about it has bumped it a little further up my list. :) ... Stroke of Midnight. 385 pages. 1.16.09
6. Hamilton, Laurell K. The Harlequin. 422 pages. 1.23.09
7. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
At once so familiar and so strange, Ayn Rand's Anthem is a phenomenal experience. She exalts the joy of man and individuality, and impresses ... I had to read Anthem by Ayn Rand in high school. I rolled my eyes so much, especially at the ending, that I almost had to have them surgically reoriented. ... he's as morally strident as Ayn Rand, but unlike Rand, he can actually write. I'll take Philosophy in the Bedroom over Anthem any day. ... c'mon iansales. The Fountainhead is nowhere near as bad as Atlas Shrugged! ;->
Actually, though, Anthem really wasn't at all bad (even if it was a bit of a rip-off of Zamyatin's We). And my recollection (though my memory is 40+ years old) is that We the Living ... ... **My Review**
3 - Anthem - Ayn Rand **My Review**
4 - The Children of Men – P.D. James **My Review ... I'm really happy that Ayn Rand has influenced so many people. I have to say that Anthem and The Fountainhead are two of the books that I have gone back to time and time again.
However, my most influential book is actually the play Our Town. In fact, I love it so much that I have a couple ... ...
Neverwhere and American Gods
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
and finally Anthem by Ayn Rand.
Also some books came in intended for Christmas gifts:
The Master and Margarita, The Gate to Women's Country, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstr ... ... Moon by: Stephenie Meyer
4.)Eclipse by: Stephenie Meyer
5.)Breaking Dawn by: Stephenie Meyer*
6.)Anthem by: Ayn Rand
7.)I am the Cheese by: Robert Cormier*
8.)Fire Star by: Chris D'Lacey
9.)Hummer by:
10.)Water for Elephants by:Sara Gruen
1 ... ...
Mighty Queens of Freeville, The: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them
Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day
Anthem
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
The Voyages ... If I recall correctly, we read Flowers for Algernon, Animal Farm, 1984, Anthem, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I think Lord of the Flies. That was in the late 70s-early 80s. ... :
Serious books:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Serious kid's books:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
... ... y
Barry Strauss' The Trojan War
Ulysses Found
The Alienist
Ultimate Hard Bastards
Atonement
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
and the list goes on... ... and get the first line from a book like such:
It is a sin to write this.
( ) The Name of the Rose
( ) Anthem
( ) Star Trek 8
( ) Captain's Courageous
( ) The Golden Compass
And then got points for getting it right - and said points continued to add up -and there ... I read We a few years ago, but don't remember much about it, other than that it felt somewhat like reading Rand's Anthem. Memory, though, may be clouding it all. Haven't read any of his other works. ... the length criteria that the Society appears to have for Fine Editions. I would also like to see The Fountainhead and Anthem. ... as I can remember and it's such a classic and lovable story. Farenheit 451 is another simple classic. Animal Farm and Anthem, too.
What about Agatha Christie mysteries? I second the Cat Who books as well.
And this may be totally out of left field, but what about Roald Dahl? He ... #17: Anthem by Ayn Rand
Anthem is a great introduction to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. A dystopian novella, it is much less intimidating than The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. I guess it’s considered science fiction as well, so I also counted it for Carl’s Sci-Fi Experience.
It was ... ... why it might not be to the taste of many commercial readers. It's the shorter efforts that left me cold. I found Anthem to be too abstract, and The Night of January Sixteenth was simply weird.
Does anyone have an opinion of the film of We the Living? I thought it was brilliant- ... "We have built strange things with this discovery of ours."
Anthem by Ayn Rand ... Apart:
A school assignment, but an interesting book nonetheless. The cultural knowledge I gained is worth this read.
Anthem:
A very simple, yet powerful book on individuality. I read this in a few short sittings, yet its message still resonates within me. A great short novel.
Down ... Right now I'm reading:
Anthem by Ayn Rand
So far, I'm not exactly blown away. It's a short work and Rand's ideology is a bit much (though all of her books seem this way).
Dragons of War by Christopher Rowley.
I've found that my favorite fantasy stories are supported by well-forme ... >12 I've read them both, and realized that when I referred to Anthem in my post #9, We the Living was the one I was thinking of (that's the one where the guy doesn't have the word "I", right?) Going back up there to edit the post now...
eta: no, I think I had it right the first time. Now ... Has anyone read Ayn Rand's novels, Anthem or We the Living?
When I noted this link, I didn't see that it also had Alan W Watts in the title. I've got Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts unknown; a mountain journal and The Supreme Identity. I only read one of his books, and it may have ... >8 You might have a bit more luck with The Fountainhead. It's not as long, nor as preachy. Even shorter is Anthem (maybe 75 pages long, if that?), but it's not very representative of her style (although the style in it is extremely unique). Anthem
Teenagers already know how to be selfish. I'm finishing Anthem during my downtimes at work. (Hi Boss).
I want to read Cryptonomicon, but I want to read The Diamond Age first for some reason. ... the Alias Books, a used bookstore walking distance to my house and I know I'll be returning there regularly.
I picked up Anthem and Affinity. I'm currently reading the former and it's great in a creepy, dystopian, this-could-totally-happen kind of way. ... when reading Hemingway. Now that I think about it, the only book I truly enjoyed from English class was Ayn Rand's Anthem. Everything else we read seemed to be dark and depressing. One book we read in my senior year was so bad, IMO, that I refused to finish it and willingly took a ... Don't forget Rush's 2112 which was based on Anthem by Ayn Rand. ... the books, but the 6th, not as much.
-Ender's series (also listed, but I love them!
-Fahrenheit 451 so good!
-Anthem by Ayn Rand (surprisingly short, but one of her best, if not the best.
-Bridge to Teribithea that is the only book that can make me sob, some others I ... ... some fiction, try one of Ayn Rand's works. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are both pretty huge tomes, but Anthem is pretty short & accessible, and would be relevant.
Sorry touchstones are wonky on so many authors there, but I hope that helps. Good luck! Starting:
1)A Raisin in the Sun
2)Slaughterhouse Five
3)Can't remember the name...
4)Anthem
And finishing:
1)The Agony and the Ecstasy
2)To Kill a Mockingbird
I liked Anthem and got to read it in English class at 14, but it's blessed with a brevity and (teen-friendly) message of self-realization that make it more palatable than Rand's extended philosophical offerings like The Fountainhead. I got MOST of the way through the latter at 16, and really ... ... an angsty teenager it's great stuff. lol
>13 philosojerk (great username, btw)
Same here about Rand. I read Anthem and The Fountainhead and both of them were breathtaking. Her authorial skills are horrid but the books still held me in!
At the time I read them I was really ... I read Ayn Rand's Anthem when I was about 15. When the character finally realized his individuality, I did a double take that nearly broke my neck! I had never read anything remotely like it before.That book has hung with me for decades. ... there was a Banned Book Week!
As a child, I absolutely loved The Giver and just about any dystopia books like that. Anthem by Ayn Rand is another one that was pretty good.
The thing that makes me incredibly sad - you can't help but marvel at the irony of it - is that Farenheit 451 ... April '07:
14. Leonardo da Vinci: the Flights of the Mind, by Charles Nicholl
15. Night, by Elie Wiesl
16. Leonard, by Martin Kemp
17. Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
18. Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
19. How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton ... 53. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 338 pages
54. Anthem by Ayn Rand, 105 pages #40: LucasTrask
I've been interested in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (I liked Anthem), but have been daunted by the length. I guess I've been worried they slow down like you said. I'll probably try reading them in the future anyway to find out for myself how I find them. =)
... abokov
politics...
politics by aristotle
utopia by thomas more
utilitarianism by john stuart mill
anthem by ayn rand
erewhon by samuel butler
fiction...
siddhartha by herman hesse
dune by frank herbert
falconer by john cheever
shogun ... 15) Anthem by Ayn Rand - Rand's ode to Ego. It has some good points but this was a bit simplistic and preachy. Has a very mythological feel to it. A future world where men live as a collective WE. But one man defies authority and breaks out to worship the Ego. It would have been better if ... Yes, I'll also have to include Gone With the Wind. And Anthem by Ayn Rand.
I'm also adding On The Beach, since it epitomizes the cold-and-maybe-getting-hot era I grew up in. I recall reading the part about SAC getting nuked as I was babysitting in a nearby suburb of Omaha. It was very ... ... relevant to a discussion such as this? Isn't this site about books or are only "conservative" books (of which I assume Anthem is one) allowed for debate? Please get off your high horses. We were thinking more along the lines of Anthem. The Ayn Rand that compares to 1984 is Anthem. ... while many novels are set in the future, they are really about NOW. While we are all acquainted with dystopian novels like Anthem or Brave New World or even the latest Ishiguro novel; there are other science fiction stories that are book-group friendly (groups not accustomed to reading SF): ... ... many an hour discussing it so if you haven't already read it-pick it up.
I, as well, recommend The Handmaid's Tale, Anthem, Alongside Night, A Clockwork Orange and Gun, with Occasional Music (one of my all time favorites, I just finished it a few months ago, Lethem is such a ... ... strawberries and cream? Perhaps Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, although I'd thought of Zamyatin's "We" too. Anthem by Ayn Rand...?
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