false 1097186 male The United States 04/2008 10/2008 16 8 8 true 5711900 read 0 true 2266881 currently-reading 0 true 2266880 to-read A Most Wanted Man (Audio CD) by John le Carré]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34462660 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899899s/3211898.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:59:25 -0700 more...]]> Faust (Paperback) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29166143 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649574s/14706.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:53:50 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20509461 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218317499s/2122.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:43:27 -0700 2. If you can't see this piece as a period piece and virtual pulp fiction you need new glasses, and there isn't much more I can say. It is what it is.
3. The fact that a book sells well and is popular does not make it good or significant. By your metric RA Salvatore and Anne Rice are among the most significant writers of the 20th century.
3. Psychoanalysis in the Freudian sense has been dead for a very long while. As that is what you mentioned, and what Rand espoused, you are both supporting a dead technique. Anyone currently teaching it is holding on to their license by their fingernails.
4. Yes only good prose captures peoples imagination. And only good books get made into movies. Let us ignore Tom Clancy and Eragorn.
5. I don't need to prove Rand wrong. She took care of that for me by espousing a philosophy of letter and morals that proposed to disprove string theory. And this isn't a battle between me and Rand. I'm alive and middling, and she is dead and wrong. There's no fight to be had. I dismiss this book because at the end of the day the significance you ascribe to it is a paper tiger I can brush away by waving my hands in your direction. The only people who think this book is good and significant in any establishment of note anywhere somehow happen to always be those very same people that agree with the philosophy it expounds. Now either the vast, vast majority of the philosophical and literary establishment is being intellectually dishonest because they feel threatened by the works of a dead woman who couldn't even keep a cult of idiots together, or the people who keep propping her literary corpse up are full of shit. Which is more likely?]]> The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Paperback) by John le Carré]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29163725 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167245877s/19494.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:29:07 -0700 more...]]> In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past): Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29163337 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095072s/18796.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:21:36 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18173-utopia-or-dystopia http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522435s/5485.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:17:12 -0700 Life and Fate (Paperback) by Vasily Grossman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24841376 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171134531s/88432.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:49:58 -0700 more...]]> Brave New World (Paperback) by Aldous Huxley]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20509107 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:00:49 -0700 more...]]> The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback) by Ayn Rand]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20509461 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218317499s/2122.jpg 1097186 Foodpie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213828314p2/1097186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1097186-foodpie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:57:16 -0700 more...]]>