Northborough author Nick Soutter says he loved 'Atlas Shrugged,' but that it was 'dead wrong.' - Galt's Gulch

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Northborough author Nick Soutter says he loved 'Atlas Shrugged,' but that it was 'dead wrong.'

Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 1 month ago to Books

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"I read Atlas Shrugged. I loved it, thought that the arguments were well made, well reasoned, and none the less dead wrong. I wanted to show why."

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Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 1 month ago

That's quite a contradictory sentence. I wonder if his book reads as eloquently.

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  It's 248 pages, and it's a brilliant rebuttal of 'Atlas Shrugged.' The John Galt speech is almost that long. He has a nice group of reviews on the Amazon site, but for a chance to take a shot at Atlas, I'm sure they weren't hard to get.
  
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Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 1 month ago

I started reading it last night. So far, it's just... horrible. I don't mean that in the sense of "Oh no! Someone is rebutting Ayn Rand!" I mean it in the sense that the writer is just bad and the editor, even worse.

I would love to read a solid counter - I just haven't been able to find one in the past 20 years. Anyone?

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Well, that's very good of you to read it for yourself. I thought about doing the same thing, but threre's so much to read, that I feel robbed when I run into a book that is horrible, like I had time stolen from me. I am glad I didn't. I'm happy to hear the bit that you wrote about it.
  
  It's hard to refute the truth. So you'll probably have to wait for 200 more years until new truths are discovered which require modification of the old themes. Because Atlas can't be disputed, only rejected out of evasion.
  
  Thanks for the tip on the book.
  
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Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years, 1 month ago

Where's the beef?
O.A.

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  Posted by itisntluck 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Where Nick Soutter's brain is supposed to be.
  
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    Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 1 month ago
    
    ha!
    
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Posted by Solver 12 years, 1 month ago

His next book that "proves" Atlas Shrugged is wrong could be called "Air Thief" where individuals are forcefully punished for daring to use planetary air to breath, which is all owned by the big evil mega military corporation monopoly. Only a majority voting for a different government monopoly collective can save the world from these "producers."

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  LOL, and two people will buy it. His mom and his grandma.
  
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