Extremely late to the thread but figured I would comment anyway.

I think I had seen Atlas Shrugged in book stores and been drawn to it, but never read it. Then I went to Vegas for a special book signing event with Terry Goodkind where someone asked about "Faith of the Fallen", which is my favorite Goodkind book, and he said it was his own version of Atlas Shrugged and his most blatant attempt to portray Objectivism.

No this isn't right, I know I had read it before that.

Maybe by now it's been 10 years?

I'm not sure now.

I try to read Atlas Shrugged at least once a year. Fountainhead as well if I can get it in.

I've read We the Living, Virtue of Selfishness, Anthem, and another thing or two. I have whatever I don't own on my Amazon wish list to finish out my collection.

It has always just identified so deeply with me when I read it that I couldn't help it.

So the movies have had no effect on my reading. I enjoyed them with an understanding that they were trying to achieve something very difficult.

Yes, thanks.

Should mention that when I was living in Auckland New Zealand I showed AS1 movie to two friends who were immigrants from Poland. Both were good at speaking English but still had an occasional question about the principles behind AS.
One was so interested that she bought a copy in Polish a few months later, when she had a vacation there.

we all divide and conquer :)

you are near mimi. You guys should do lunch

and I, yours! . I bought the new kindle, so here
comes another great read! . Thanks!!! -- j
.

My pleasure.

Sweet. Thanks for the confirmation.

NMA Virtue of Selfishness will be my next read. It's seems everything I read of AR affirms what and how I think and feel. Thanks for all your insite.

Impressive, and doing things for yourself, Virtue of Selfishness style, I spot on, and certainly not something to ever diminish in any way. Glad you see it as bettering yourself.
Cows and calves are certainly going to take up your day, as is stocking up for the harsher climes ahead. That definitely is a daily requirement.
Glad you have found the site, and you are enjoying exploring and interacting!
NMA

always enjoy your posts

K, I did the reverse -- found Rand in '64 and the
online gulch in '13. . you and the fine folks here are
now an extraordinary part of my life. . Thank You!!! -- j

p.s. I read everything I can grab, about Rand!
.

thanks, elinel, always look forward to you comments

I did the read first, and waited the 30 years for the movie. In the meantime I have started at least 7 businesses, only one failed, but at 70 I'm on #8 and looking to move on to #9.
That's what we do , take it to 90% and move on to a new idea or challenge.
Hopefully we become "infectious" in society.
Tom

I'll be teaching class, writing papers, and communicating via the Gulch.

Its a shame you aren't going to make the summit JB

Those sizzling kilts are always causing trouble.

:-(

You two sound like my dad and stepmom were, in all their years together before she died. They have always been my example of what two people who love each other embody. I'm so happy you and she have that.

Always with deep friendship,
NMA

My heartfelt sympathies. It gets more...accustomed, but I still catch myself saying, "I'll have to tell Itsy about that!" from time to time.

Jan

coming up on one year for me. very hard

First started hearing about AR in high school- she was taught in senior AP English, which I missed because I graduated early. One of my friends got to see her live once. Didn't think about her much for many years. Early in Obama's first term, I started hearing how much real life was starting to look like AS, so I picked it up. Read it almost-straight through, then immediately started reading again with a pen for margin notes and a highlighter. Scared the p!ss out of me. This was shortly before AS1 came out. Have read it repeatedly since, and have a collection of Now Non-Fiction T-shirts that I wear everywhere. Hope to read We The Living and some non-fiction in the near future, just been stymied by a combination of busyness and laziness. I'll get there eventually.

Currently working on increasing self-reliance and eliminating debt.

I'm another of those who finds no personal conflict between faith and reason, but I'm willing to live and let live.

we always watch the sun set and rise for that matter. we walk along the beach together every morning.

Yeah. That was super of her. She never liked reading or studying, but she quite fully supported the geeky tendencies of her daughters (and left a few scars on school personnel in the process of so doing).

It has been 15 years and I still miss her.

Jan