Maybe yes, because I don’t know what you are talking about.
Better get some better reading material.
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Ruined? Nah, I think not. I have not read any of the three of these books, but I probably will eventually - once I work my way down through the big stack of books I already have to read. I have found that people are as widely varied (if not more so) as the books you can choose. Variety being the spice of life, it is not a bad thing to “mix it up” a bit, and select from widely disparate sources because it forces you to look at and wrestle with different things. Just my 2 cents...
Haven’t read “Tuesdays with Morrie”. However, Ellsworth Toohey is perhaps the most evil character in literature. His evil is not the overt kind of a Hitler or Stalin, rather it is a like a subtle anestesia that puts the victime to sleep by killing their soul. Ayn Rand out did herself by brilliantly personifying the evils of socialism.
I’ve only read the Rand books, NOT the Albom one.....VERY different books, however. I’ve perused the Albom one. I can see why you feel the way you do.
I’ve never done a vanity. (Unless I was drunk and don’t remember.)
Recommendations? I read Atlas Shrugged last year and finished the Fountainhead just last week.
The old dying man says something like “I went to the funeral of my friend and it was such a waste. He couldn’t hear all the great things said about him”. So how does this guy know that? He doesn’t.
I read two books once that struck me in a similar way. I read THE BELL JAR about a spoiled brat who attempts suicide and eventually the author really commits suicide. I read Bell Jar right after reading CANCER WARD by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. On one level CANCER WARD is about hospitals in the old USSR (in this case Tashkent), on a deeper level it is about the USSR, and on a still deeper level it is about life and the love of life. Its characters have little but desperately love life and want to live while in the BELL JAR the young woman has so much but wants to end her life. Guess which book gets the most reprints and is assigned in the most classes at American universities.
Couldn’t tell you, because I’ll never read anything by mitch albom.
Make sure you read the last two Rand books... Atlas Shrugged and Anthem. Anthem is my personal favorite.
You can be 'selfless' and an egoist at the same time. As a matter of fact, it is almost a guarantee.
When you think it thru, I wonder if anyone of us has really done ANYTHING out of pure selflessness, from donating to church or charity to caring for our kids. Pure selflessness, I would guess, is as rare a commodity as any.
Nah. You’re not ruined. “Tuesdays with Morrie” sucked. Shallow, stupid and pointless. I didn’t shed a tear, in fact, the author’s brazen attempt at manipulation made me mad. With all the hype, I kept reading to the end. I’ll not make the same mistake again.
Life is too short to read bad books.
If you're talking about Mitch Albom, you are absolutely correct. The Liberal little twit with a big head and big ears (is he related to Dennis Kucinich) is totally full of himself. Go figure, here in the Detroit area his program airs immediately following first Rush then Hannity. At that point I switch channels.......