It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
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It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
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Having grown up in the Ayn Rand (It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.) era, I never thought I would live to see the day (
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While I do love these list threads , this one has gotten a bit vague and sloppy, as the OP didn't really make it clear. Half are posting their current "flavor of the day" favorite authors, and some are posting who in there humble (or not so humble) opinions are the top five authors....
Ohwell, I'll play too..
Who I think? feel? TODAY are the 5 BEST Authors, not necessarily my FAVORITE
Above Category: Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Beckett
4. Kafka
5. Elliot
You see, Dante is not in there, as I have not read him YET, Cervantes is not in there I have'nt read Don Quixote in 30 yrs (and have little memory of it)
and he probably should be....
TOMORROW:
1 Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Beckett
4. ?
5. ?
Well then we're making progress, it seems, since those two are incomparable.It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
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I don't know how pervasive the Ayn Rand love used to be, but I'm a freshman in college and it seems everyone I know has two unfortunate copies of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead sitting in their dorm room bookshelves (who knows how many have actually read it--often times the book is only within a few feet of an Obama poster), while only a few read Dostoevsky. Still, if what you say is the case, Dostoevskian fanboyism is undeniably an improvement over the Ayn Rand cult.It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
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#1 (Bazarov won't need me to fill this one in.)
#2 Aesop
#3 Jonathan Swift
#4 Ben Elton
#5 Tom Sharpe
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
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No order.
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Orwell
Fitzgerald
Dostoyevsky
I agree with that, luke...I often wonder though if they're actually reading them given the length factor. What Rand had going for her is the number of small books that summarize her big ones.It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
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Ben Elton? Tom Sharpe? You are joking, yes? Ben Elton above Shakespeare?
No, I am certainly not joking.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
Shakespeare is overrated.
Take it back!
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No way. Half the people I talk to about Shakespeare these days don't even know why they like him. They only do because they're expected to.
Shakespeare is overrated.
Yeah... an Mozart sucks too.
Give me a break.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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