Something Weird

[brightly_lit]

In the spirit of the something random meme, a thing that's been on my mind a lot lately: What's something you are, or were, TOTALLY into--a book or actor or hobby or anything at all--that NO ONE you knew, online or in person, was into at all so you were left feeling like a weirdo and you couldn't share your love of it like we can do here with SPN?

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[deceptivemirror.livejournal.com]

...would you believe I actually was (and am, to an extent) an Ayn Rand fan? I have the Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, and really liked Anthem in high school. Everyone else hated her! I could not discuss the books with a single other soul.

I disagree with a lot of what is in the books regarding her personal philosophy, but damn if they don't make a person think.

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

I totally went through an Ayn Rand phase! I abhor her philosophy, but nonetheless, The Fountainhead was one of my favorite books. I actually did have a friend to talk to about it, though. We even read it aloud to each other.

I liked Anthem, too. It was one of the first literature books I read, freshman year in high school, that I really got into and found totally haunting, like the stuff I read on purpose. :-)

[deceptivemirror.livejournal.com]

Her philosophy's a bit hard to take in places, yeah, especially the idea that a person should be sexually attracted only to those who share the same ideals and ideas. I don't get the point, and that's actually something she got angry about outside of the books. Apparently a lover of hers about 10 or so years her junior decided to get frisky with another woman who was dumb as a post. The way it was described, she actually got more pissed off about the fact that he slept with a woman as dumb as a post more than the fact that he actually cheated. Funky chicken.

Anthem was really fun. I kind of wish we could have seen the further adventures of Gaia and Prometheus, but eh, such is life.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

ME TOO! Loved Anthem, loved The Fountainhead (though for whatever reason I couldn't get into Atlas Shrugged), and was regarded with bewilderment for liking them!

What's weird to me about her bizarre 'philosophy' is that, after reading up on it, I feel strongly like, especially with The Fountainhead, what the books were about and valued was the exact OPPOSITE of what she claims to be her philosophy. But yeah, great stuff. Howard Roark ftw!

[deceptivemirror.livejournal.com]

Atlas Shrugged is and remains the only book that forced me to read about what my friends describe as "normal people speed." It took me two WEEKS to wade through that thing, and it takes me the same amount of time each time I re-read it (which hasn't been for a while, but still).

Her philosophy's kind of fluid. She believes a bit in the almighty dollar too much for me to handle, and she keep sticking up for intellectual superiority, but the vast majority of her characters embody the complete opposite, and the ones who DO follow her philosophy end up on top only because they let the dumbasses (for lack of a better word) knock down all the other social structures first so that the only thing to go on is what the smart person wants. I liked Roark, though I feel his personality isn't quite as fleshed out as other characters'.