Announcement. Gary and I have officially finished "Atlas Shrugged". It was 1069 pages long and took us 17 months to complete. HOORAY!!!! Course we read all those other books at the same time last year so that really isn't such a horrid time frame...right? Now we can start in with the book club again.
While I don't agree with the author's (Ayn Rand's) philosophy or morals, I'm glad we read the book. I'm glad we stuck with it and read the entire thing together. It's interesting to read other books and see what others believe. I won't recommend this book to anyone. She is WAY too wordy. She could have cut the book in half by eliminating sentences like, "John held himself in a way that exuded confidence, but not the kind of confidence one might normally find in every day life. It was the kind of confidence that says you are happy to be alive for the sake of being alive. That you enjoy every ligamental movement of your scapular artery in the subquantext of your lean mean freakin' muscle machine...that you move for the sake of moving. That you enjoy the...."
If you are saying "What the?" then you are in the same boat we were half the time we read it. Sometimes we just burst out laughing at the absurdity of it all. Anyway...
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Did she really say "lean mean freakin' muscle machine"? Whoa, I missed a ton by listening to the abridged version.
So, I say all of you all that read Train to Potevka, discuss and we pick a new book to begin the month of March. What does everyone else think?
Sounds good to me.
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