I wanted to read this book so I could see what the fuss was all about. I’ve never made it 80% of the way through any other book and then intentionally stopped reading it. Everything about the way it is written is so bad. The characters are all made of cardboard. The situations that arise make no sense. Pretty much everything about the book makes no sense and is just to drive the story towards whatever idiotic conclusion Rand wanted.
When John Galt finally appeared and I realized he was just three incoherent speeches in a trench coat and not an actual attempt at writing a character, I basically abandoned finishing the book in disgust.
Did you get to the part where Galt had a magical machine that generated power from static electricity that would power his entire society? See? All we need for an objectivist paradise is to forget about all that “science” nonsense and make it happen through willpower!
I wanted to read this book so I could see what the fuss was all about. I’ve never made it 80% of the way through any other book and then intentionally stopped reading it. Everything about the way it is written is so bad. The characters are all made of cardboard. The situations that arise make no sense. Pretty much everything about the book makes no sense and is just to drive the story towards whatever idiotic conclusion Rand wanted.
When John Galt finally appeared and I realized he was just three incoherent speeches in a trench coat and not an actual attempt at writing a character, I basically abandoned finishing the book in disgust.
Did you get to the part where Galt had a magical machine that generated power from static electricity that would power his entire society? See? All we need for an objectivist paradise is to forget about all that “science” nonsense and make it happen through willpower!
Nah I didn’t make it that far. I couldn’t take too much of that character. It doesn’t surprise me that it gets even more ridiculous though.