Tuesday, October 27, 2009
From Rand to The Road
Quick heads-up: I've posted a list of quotations from The Fountainhead which I will be linking to last week's post about the book as a whole. I enjoyed the book a lot and I found myself taking notes as I read, so I decided to type up those quotes which grabbed my attention and share them with you. I'm probably not the first person to put Ayn Rand quotes on the internet but what the hell, right? It's not like this site couldn't use a bit more class.
There's no spoilers, so if you haven't read the book feel free to read the list and consider whether or not it makes the characters and philosophy sound like something worth exploring. Oh, and the Howard Roark quote from page 602 was one I saw on a T-shirt a few weeks back while walking in Umeda. The wearer looked an awful lot like me, actually. I took it as a sign that I needed to finish reading the book.
I think Atlas Shrugged is going to have to wait for at least a month or two. Hopefully I can finish it before BioShock 2 comes out, not that those two things are necessarily going to be connected. In the meantime, I picked up The Road on a semi-whim this weekend after reading this piece about gaming connecting with other media. It was a paperback so it was pretty affordable. Once I got home I looked it up properly and discovered it has an almost hyperbolic-level of praise. It's also been made into a movie that comes out in the US next month, so this is a good time to read it before the internet start plastering spoilers all over the place.
I also still have a cold from the weekend but it should be gone by Halloween. At the very least, my busiest days of the week are behind me.
There's no spoilers, so if you haven't read the book feel free to read the list and consider whether or not it makes the characters and philosophy sound like something worth exploring. Oh, and the Howard Roark quote from page 602 was one I saw on a T-shirt a few weeks back while walking in Umeda. The wearer looked an awful lot like me, actually. I took it as a sign that I needed to finish reading the book.
I think Atlas Shrugged is going to have to wait for at least a month or two. Hopefully I can finish it before BioShock 2 comes out, not that those two things are necessarily going to be connected. In the meantime, I picked up The Road on a semi-whim this weekend after reading this piece about gaming connecting with other media. It was a paperback so it was pretty affordable. Once I got home I looked it up properly and discovered it has an almost hyperbolic-level of praise. It's also been made into a movie that comes out in the US next month, so this is a good time to read it before the internet start plastering spoilers all over the place.
I also still have a cold from the weekend but it should be gone by Halloween. At the very least, my busiest days of the week are behind me.
Labels: books, The Fountainhead, The Road
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