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[jianantonic]

I just got back from seeing The Devil Wears Prada. I did like it. But that movie is about as much based on the book as Forrest Gump is based on A Tale of Two Cities. Really. Not one detail is the same. But that was good - because when movies try to be like the book, and miss the mark, that pisses me off. This movie didn't even try, and it was good in its own way, as a completely different story from the one told in the book with the same name. (But the book is way better, of course.)

I've just started reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I've been meaning to read some Ayn Rand ever since I read Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady two years ago, wherein author Florence King gushes about her. Atlas is Ahren's favorite book - in fact, he loves it so much, that he refuses to pick up another book and just reads this one over and over. Seriously, the man has never read another book in his life - though I did send him a copy of Confessions, which was probably a waste of the $.75 plus shipping I paid on half.com, but if he doesn't read it, I'll make him give it to me so I can pass it on to one of the hundreds of others I've recommended it to. Seriously, folks, there is not one person in my readership (vast, I know) that wouldn't love this book. Confessions, that is. I'm not far enough into Atlas Shrugged to make that call yet. It's an 1100-page book, tiny print and large pages at that, so I imagine I'll be working on it for a while. Maybe I can squeeze some lighter reading in there on the way up to FRFF. Jer just finished Janet Evanovich's 11th book, and both of us are ready to start the latest one, so he said we can read it out loud to each other in the car on the way to the fest. Her books are such a quick read, though, it probably won't even last us one whole way. I wish book series could all be printed at once, so we don't have to effing wait for the next one - they take so long! Evanovich releases a new one every year, which is better than the two-year wait for Harry Potter updates, but her books only take a couple hours to finish. It's like I'm some sort of addict in desperate need of a fix. Heh. At least being a book addict doesn't make me smell bad - except when I get so wrapped up in a book that I refuse to get out of bed and shower before I finish it...hehe.

And now I'm starting to crash, as I'd predicted I would.

Peace.

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[oobermeister.livejournal.com]

have you ever seen the chicken fucker episode of southpark? at the end of the episode officer barbrady reads 'atlas shrugged' by ayn rand and decides that reading sux

[jianantonic.livejournal.com]

Haha - yeah, but I'd forgotten about that. Actually, pretty much everyone else I've talked to that has read this book said they hated it, but I promised Ahren I'd give it a shot. Plus it is a modern classic, so we'll see.

[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

Ayn Rand stands at an interesting nexus of "liberal" and "conservative." Or so I have understood. As I understand it, she's very libertarian and anti-communist. And she has some weird ideas (e.g. "affairs are generally a good idea" or some such. also, "women want to be raped"). But I've never read anything of hers, only heard about it from others, so I'm on shaky ground here.