Win an "Atlas Shrugged" Storyboard

Posted by GaltsGulch 8 years, 8 months ago to The Gulch: General
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Celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day by entering to win an authentic Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt? storyboard created during the pre-production stage of Atlas Shrugged Part 3.

To enter just comment on this post telling us about the first time you read Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged. What was the situation? What were your thoughts as you went through it? How did it change your life?

One week from today, on September 8th, we’ll pick one Gulcher who shared their Atlas Shrugged experience to receive a hand drawn storyboard from Atlas Shrugged Part 3!

Go!

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Note: The storyboard shown is not the one the winner will receive.

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  • Posted by Jacqui 8 years, 8 months ago
    The first time in my life I felt understood after reading atlas shrugged . Morally, mentally and psychologically it was all I felt for men and life .
    I was eager to read Ayns biography to understand how her mind works . It is an political book and yet it's a soul searcher book . Atlas shrugged -it's my bible -
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  • Posted by jaqo 8 years, 8 months ago
    Read it in middle age as I am striving to read everything I wanted to read before passing. It confirmed or agreed with most of my core beliefs about collectivism, reason, economics, etc. It really didn't change my life.
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  • Posted by Daphne3872 8 years, 8 months ago
    I have never read the books, but my husband and I have seen the movies and we loved them. It is our mentality!!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago
    Devil's Advocate Taylor Caldwell
    Not This August Pohl and Kornbluth*
    Atlas Shrugged AynRand.
    Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
    Last Of The Breed Louis Lamour

    One is impossible three next to difficult four is just right as a pared to the bones list. Five is comfortable unless you want non fiction
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is true. Reading aloud one can, like an actor, use pauses, inflections, the punctuation especially the ending of each sentence. If it's right the words flow, If not they scratch the blackboard. Either it's your reading or it's the writing but both will improve and most important you find the hidden mistakes. such as those caused by digital or cerebral spell and grammar checkers.

    Stupidly I tried to imitate Dos Passos only to find he fully but sparingly used punctuation but of course had ten others to choose from covering all ranges of literate illiteracy and boringly left out the parts of a sentence in fiction which conveyed the mood of the character leaving the reader perplexed cold and not in a buying mood thus shelved the book and my royalties with it
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Happy holiday awebb , There are benefits to reading aloud to someone . I have read that authors are encouraged to read aloud their words.
    I know that you must read every word and for the most part understand what you are saying. The listener also comprehends the story.
    Experiencing a philosophical life changing ,revealing novel that Atlas Shrugged is with your best friend is priceless.
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  • Posted by starbird56 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I bought another copy of AS today to place in the little free library on campus. The first copy I put in hasn't come back (I hope it's being read instead of mooched).
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow, that was pretty hard one for me to pin down. I guess I never gave which single book was most relevant to me. Even now I can't say with surety, but I can say AS isn't #1 (probably a close 2).

    Contenders for #1

    Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

    Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2]

    Common Sense by Thomas Paine

    Th!nk By Michael R. LeGault


    Solely the best though goes back to Asimov and his Foundation and Robot Series though.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I went though a Magoo phase, anything Magoo made into a cartoon I read. I'll have to really think on what would be my sole favorite relevant book (I've read quite a few books), but for pleasure I loved reading Sea Wolf, Call of the Wild, Count of Monte Cristo , Asmiov's Foundation and Robot Series, and Moorcock's Eternal Champion Series..

    None of those has meaningful impact as AS though, for that I'll have to think a bit.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks awebb, that was the sense I got , but I will read it and I understand that a happy ending is
    not assured. Have a great weekend and holiday.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Starnes believe in something. They are wrong. They are parasites. BUT they believe in something.

    The workers are the ones who are afraid to stand up and take a side. They don't really think the plan is good or noble but they're afraid or feel too guilty to say so. They just go along.
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  • Posted by dwedding 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    By the way, I think I would like to have an excerpt of just that story. It shows the evils of Socialism in one brief story.
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  • Posted by dwedding 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are right. The sheep that willingly walk into the slaughter house are the ones that make the Starnes children possible.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've actually never listened to the Atlas Shrugged audio book. Kind of wishing I had it now... I'm currently driving across the country.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wear Atlas Shrugged shirts frequently and it makes my day when someone actually asks about it or knows the references. Unfortunately, this isn't very often.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We the Living is a good read but it is rather sad. It does not have the same sense of hope that Rand's later work had, in my opinion.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ”… but nobody asked any questions. None of us knew just how the plan would work, but every one us thought that the next fellow knew it. And if anybody had doubts, he felt guilty and kept his mouth shut… “

    For me, the workers who voted for and lived by the "plan" were far scarier than the Starnes.
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  • Posted by awebb 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I try to read Atlas Shrugged annually... maybe next time I'll read it aloud to someone :)
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 8 months ago
    I read AS in 2002 as my business was in its final death throes. I was prompted to do so when someone in a yahoo philosophical chat room typed "Who is John Galt?" and I was curious what it meant. After reading AS I felt validated and I wished I had read it sooner. I knew the core elements of my conservatism would then have taken precedence in my decision making and I may have salvaged my company. Hindsight.

    AS, not the best book I ever read but certainly one of the 2 most relevant and meaningful.
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  • Posted by NoeticCoach 8 years, 8 months ago
    Since Atlas Shrugged was published when I was one, I can't say I read it when it first came out. I would say it was nearly 45 years ago that I first heard of Ayn Rand and picked up a copy of the novel. From that reading, I would say that my roots as a Conservative Libertarian were formed. I believe in Capitalism and lessened government intervention, yet I also strongly believe in an individual taking responsibility for his/her own actions. Unable to get Part III of the movie on my Movie Channel or Netflix, I bought a copy and am looking forward to viewing it.
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