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The Camp of the Saints should become required reading for everyone in the West
Posted on 5/12/26 at 7:47 am
Posted on 5/12/26 at 7:47 am
A good and recent summary of this recently delisted/relisted 1973 novel describing the devastating effect of an invasion of miserable migrants that overwhelm France. I'm in the middle of it and it is eerily prophetic.
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Posted on 5/12/26 at 8:07 am to Morgus
I'd be mighty tempted to pull up stakes and move to whichever town had a school where that was mandatory reading.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 8:55 am to uggabugga
This and Atlas Shrugged
Posted on 5/12/26 at 9:01 am to udtiger
You betcha. ATLAS SHRUGGED is certainly a book one must read. After reading one must stay in touch with the institute.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 9:34 am to Timeoday
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mandatory reading
I’d add two:
The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Posted on 5/12/26 at 9:41 am to Morgus
Bookmarked.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 9:54 am to Morgus
Just ordered it on my Nook. Will check out. Thx
Posted on 5/12/26 at 10:03 am to udtiger
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This and Atlas Shrugged
The problem with both Atlas and The Fountainhead is that Ayn Rand really, really needed an editor. Badly. Her points were of course, important. But truly entertaining parts of the books were often drowned out by dry, pedantic, 50+ page screeds that came off as sermons. You could have easily told the story in Atlas while cutting out 300 pages, and not lost a single bit of important plot. No matter how important you think her ideas are, most people are turned off by the whole “Im brilliant and I love to hear myself talk” thing. She had some truly great scenes in Atlas. The passage where train passengers are rolling off to their deaths inside the tunnels was downright haunting. THAT’S good writing. THAT’S how you sell an audience on your ideas. Not having Howard Roark giving a lecture for 100 pages.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 7:29 pm to Morgus
Oh lawd!!! I bought the book and wouldn't recommend wasting ur money on it!!! Geez.... it's horrible.
Like reading someone's nightmare on acid!
Makes no sense.
I remember why I read fiction.
Like reading someone's nightmare on acid!
Makes no sense.
I remember why I read fiction.
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