Atlas Shrugged in Contest for Best Book...VOTE!
During a program on May 22nd, PBS introduced the 100 best loved books in America. Atlas Shrugged was one of them. This is to be a contest. Voting is to take place all summer with the winning book announced in the Fall. You can vote for A.S. every day all summer long. So Gulchers vote and tell your friends to vote. It just takes a few seconds of your time each day. Even if A.S. does not win, we can at least try to keep it in the contest and maybe make it a finalist. The American people need to know that this book exists and is an important part of our culture. Maybe even a few snowflakes will read it. Remember to vote every day so that it is not eliminated. Let's do this! Go to :
PBS.org/greatamericanread
PBS.org/greatamericanread
Thank you for the post. I gladly voted for Atlas Shrugged. We all know how beneficial it would be for everyone to read about how to live a happy joyful life, with your own ethical self interest as a guiding moral principle.
Me dino don't do Facebook.
The Gulch is as close to social media as I care to get.
Never read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Maybe I should.
Not listed is Dracula which I read decades ago.,
Me dino liked the fictitious way Bram Stoker strung together a letter, a ship's log, journals and so forth in a row and managed to make a creepy novel out of that.
In the Appendix, they are all called "Prof." from "Prof. A through Prof. M." Are you familiiar with Isaac Asimov's Black Widowers?
That was the second Black Widowers story. The courtesy of calling everyone "Doctor" does not appear iin the first one, "The Acquisitive Chuckle." It may be repeated in later episodes. We have a complete set, but I am not going to go on with this.
For the purposes ot fhe book, it was first a courtesy, but also served to further anonymize them.
My reference to the Black Widowers was only a cultural aside to show that calling them all "Prof" when some were not was itiself not so peculiar.
Number 20! And it moved from number 43 to 20 in the last few days, or so Meredith Viera said during the broadcast.. Of course, I wanted it to be number one (as it remains my favorite all-time book), but overall, I think it did well.
I know I voted nearly every day for it. I suspect that this community certainly helped it climb.
A lot of Atlas Shrugged fans dropped the ball. The rules allowed for voting 6 times a day using 4 different mechanisms for about 5 months. https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
I think they said the winning book got about 56,000 votes. At just one vote a day that is only a few hundred people. At maximum voting frequency it is equivalent to only about 60 people.
Maybe, 2001 A Space Odyssey?
Something from Camus or Nietzche?
Also, 2001: A Space Odyssey was actually a short story called "Sentinel." The so-called "novel" was just a result of the screenplay of the movie. And, to the point, while the movie had its important moments, and while "The Sentinel" has an interesting plot, the fact is that not much in them can make your life better. They are far out-classed by Atlas Shrugged..
Have you read any of Ayn Rand's other works, such as her non-fiction?
Surprised that PBS included it in the selection, as one of the most PC liberal entity.
You can also vote for other favorites. Happy voting!
Most Loved Books - Ha! By liberals at the NYT?
I also voted for Pride and Prejudice, The Book Thief, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Gone With the Wind.
It should be taught in public school along with Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
(PBS statists must have included AS as a token of diversity.)
Now, Lord of the Rings. . . there was a tough slog.
But no Heinlein? That's ridiculous. If I could have the collected works of only one author, it would be Heinlein, even ahead of Rand (though AS is my single favorite book). At the very least, Stranger in a Strange Land belongs on their ballot.
Foundation started off interesting, but after the first book it became less so- for me;^)
Completely agree on Heinlein. He would be the author for desert island relaxation if I had a choice.
Just voting for AS when I think of it.