The Silmarillion was not written. It was compiled. It is a reference work, not a narrative. It's like saying "The phone book was the most boring book I ever read. It was just names and numbers cover to cover."Charles LaRue said:
Beware, Atlas Shrugged isn't so much a book as it is a statement of belief. She ruins what could otherwise be an interesting story that gets her point across subtly with flagrant mult-page speeches decrying the evils of society imposing that the successful be philanthropic.keiji_Maeda said:
THANK YOU. I tried reading it once, but I couldn't even get passed the beginning part where the drifter or whatever sits down on a porch and spills out a whole bunch of history and exposition I have been given ZERO reason to care about. I have no idea where these mountains are and I have no idea about this giant troll race, so why are you telling me they died out and why should I care? I don't mind history and such within a story, but don't go dumping 10 pages of history on me before I even understand how the world is in the present. Give me history if and when it's relevant, tell me about the past when it has some direct effect on the present or future. Otherwise, keep it to yourself.wintercoat said:
I think it's interesting that you would call Rand's objectivism "liberal," considering the main politician I can think of in recent memory who has proudly stated his admiration for Rand is Paul Ryan--whose hardline conservatism made Mitt Romney look like a wet noodle in comparison. Small government, focused on individual growth even if it's at the expense of the welfare of others, a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism...her views could be seen as conservative or libertarian, but I don't see how you can come to the conclusion her ideologies are "liberal."keiji_Maeda said:
Though I haven't read it or seen the film, I read somewhere that the tiger is actually a visual metaphor for him himself. In reality, he was on a boat with other people, but he retold the story with himself as a tiger (to reflect the difficulty he had communicating, or somesuch).Glongpre said:No? Am I going blind?
No but seriously, there is a tiger.
Kind of the point. Don't think you'd get much out of it if you took it as its surface and only focused on its characters. Read it three times in a short space of time and enjoyed it more on each.Kenbo Slice said:
The aggression is unnecessary. I wasn't trying to "take apart the story and themes"; I was simply replying to a question nobody else seemed to have noticed, and freely admitted my knowledge was limited.Axolotl said:
