I’m not wearing any green. It’s not that I really get into St. Patrick’s Day, but I don’t like to be unnecessarily pinched. Or pinched at all, rather.
I feel like I climbed Mount Everest or swam the English Channel (only one of those sounds remotely appealing to me, and I’m not that strong of a swimmer…yet)…last night I finally finished reading Atlas Shrugged in all its 1100 pages of small font. It’s taken me months (okay, about a month and a half, when you factor in that I took a break from it for about a month) and I really enjoyed it, but I’ll be glad to move on to something else.
Ayn Rand is a great author and has some good points, but ultimately, I don’t buy her philosophy. A simple explaination of it can be found in the motto of her heroes, “I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
If you know me, you know that I have essentially sworn to live my life for another man, THE God-Man, Jesus Christ.
*pinch*
I have a copy. I should read it. At that length, it really seems like more work than anything else.
Congrats on managing it!
I’m impressed. I takes me a month to get through a Jodi Picoult book and I really love her writing, one that I’m not into would probably take a year for me.
Thanks for stopping in to say hello.
Thanks for reading the book for me :)
Come on, girl…we both know that you are a view-nature-from-a-distance kind of gal…you’d never climb Mt. Everest. :)
1100 pages? That is a feat unto itself. Congrats for that! I’m reading The Bell Jar right now….fascinating to me.
Yeah, Everest would only be fun if done on a Rollercoaster at Disney.
I love how you summed this post up. Excellent!
Amazing that you finished the book…even though you were not that into it. Well done! Much more than I could have done.
-Francesca
You know, if you didn’t wear green, wouldn’t you get unnecessarily pinched MORE?
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love to study history and to read historical novels. :0)