What's your favorite book?

[Umberger]

all of the Harry Potters!!! (don't hate... they're really really addictive)

 

[aircooled]

I'm not a book reader. I'm dyslexic, it's too much work, I spend more time reading each word than absorbing the story.

Plus it would just ruin the movie

 

[Kevin1211]

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 

[Patt]

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland. Classic for the computer crowd!

 

[bo0]

Originally posted by: laurenlex
Where The Red Fern Grows

Great book.
You just gave me flash backs of how sad I was after finishing the book.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: RandomFool

Originally posted by: loki8481
Atlas Shrugged

I couldn't stand that book, i tried to read it this summer and it was just awful...I think it's because i don't agree with anything the author believed in.

How so?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Candide

 

[Corporate Thug]

green mile

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: RandomFool

Originally posted by: loki8481
Atlas Shrugged

I couldn't stand that book, i tried to read it this summer and it was just awful...I think it's because i don't agree with anything the author believed in.

How so?

Objectivism holds that there is no greater moral goal than achieving happiness. But one cannot achieve happiness by wish or whim. Fundamentally, it requires rational respect for the facts of reality, including the facts about our human nature and needs. Happiness requires that one live by objective principles, including moral integrity and respect for the rights of others. Politically, Objectivists advocate laissez-faire capitalism. Under capitalism, a strictly limited government protects each person's rights to life, liberty, and property and forbids that anyone initiate force against anyone else. The heroes of Objectivism are achievers who build businesses, invent technologies, and create art and ideas, depending on their own talents and on trade with other independent people to reach their goals. Taken from here


Basically at least from what I understand of it, Objectivism, is all about making yourself happy through your work but doesn't really seem to include anyone else unless they're like you and working to make themselves. You look out for yourself and no one else is what i get out of it. So any poor slob who can't/won't(for whatever reason) do as good as you gets left behind. Not that I believe the poor slob should get a free ride but I don't like the idea of just abandoning people completely like objectivism seems to advocate. It all seems very selfish to me. IF everyone was an objectivist then maybe it could work but it seems like you'd have to have an completely equal society for that to happen which is impossible. It all just seems very uncaring. Of course I haven't looked into it too deeply so i might be and probably amwrong about some or all of this but something about it just doesn't sit right with me.