A Tale of Two Novels: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged vs James Joyce’s Ulysses
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3251
Two brilliant books that are a pain in the a$$ to get thru.
Ulysses is unreadable, but more readable than Finnegan’s Wake.
Atlas Shrugged? Readable again and again. But I would not have voted it the best.
I vote for Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.
“A poll conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club asked what book has most affected reader’s personal lives. Atlas Shrugged placed second only to the Bible.”
Just stumbled onto another “oldie but goodie” that I had on my shelf: Albert Jay Knock’s “Our Enemy, the State”.
It is NOT about ‘black helicopters’. The book was written as a criticism about the FDR regime, and it is truly frightening and enlightening.
It too is a difficult read, it was written in 1935, at a time when true academics had a command of the language that has long since been battered by liberals and union thug teachers.
The book was intended as a text for post graduate political science types, so be prepared.
But it is short and very many things in it are pertinent to what is happening today.
http://mises.org/etexts/ourenemy.pdf
Frankly I found both quotations to be overwritten and a bit silly. That isn’t Rand’s best writing by far. Joyce’s either. IMHO.