Our First FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged

A Publius Essay | 15 January 2009 | Publius

[ilgipper]

I am in. ping me. I just bought the book a few weeks ago and it would be motivational to keep plodding through it. I have made it through maybe two fiction books in my adult life.

[baseballmom]

Please keep me on your ping list. Great idea.

[NellieMae]

Great idea. Please add me to the list.

[GatorGirl]

Hi I would love to join and will take my copy of Atlas Shrugged off the shelf and immediately start reading. We are overlapping soccer and softball with spring football to start soon so I will be sitting at alot of practices and will read on the sidelines. (I do watch the games.)

I also would recommend dailylit.com. It is a service which will email up to three installments of books each day. It’s a great way for a busy person to read in small bits. Alas Atlas Shrugged is not offered but Democracy in America is, along with other great classics. DailyLit.com is free.

[mick]

Thank you for the tip on DailyLit.com.

I had never heard of this site. What a great resource!

It's ideas like that from people like you that make Free Republic such a great place to spend time.

Thank you again

[CottonBall]

By the way, I think many people are reading it. All of the copies in our library system were checked out when I went looking for it.

I couldn't find a single copy checked in in the 7 libraries in our system.

[kb2614]

Sure, add me too the ping list. This is my second attempt at reading Atlas Shrugged. I tried 20 years ago, but had an attention span of a fruit fly so I never finished it. I started reading it a week ago. I’m on page 100. I like it, alot, though I haven’t figured out why yet.

[Scotswife]

Thanks for the chuckle!
I just got done reading a sex scene and that spoof is spot on!

[Scotswife]

“Nah. I would be counted among the apostates.”

apostates can be fun too!

[definitelynotaliberal]

Indeed I am.

[Brasil]

I want in.
I reread Atlas Shrugged during the first months of Klinton when it seemed civilization was ending---and the situation is even more scary now.

[misanthrope]

I wanna play!!!

[Impy]

This a fun idea, I'll be the guy who pretends to have read the book!

[TheThinker]

I'm in.

I just bought the Ten Big Lies About America by Michael Medved. It's a great read so far.

[wastedyears]

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.

[wastedyears]

I refuse to lie down and submit. I’d rather fight and die.

And listen to this while I slay. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUeSYJZI2w

[I_like_good_things_too]

I love this idea, please add me to the list.

Also, any hope of creating a “real, live” King County book club? I’d love to join that, given that I’m concerned about the quality of discourse in an o-line bookclub. I’d love to get together with real humans once in a while to discuss political books.

[omronnie]

Please add me to your ping list.

I’m in.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

(In case anybody’s interested.)

[Gondring]

Please add me, Publius.

I very much like the idea of the Federalist/Anti-Federalist chronological readings, too.

Thanks!