![]() Putting others first, she argues, means that everyone finishes last. Self-interest, Rand argues, is the best motivation for economics, finance, politics, and basically all of humanity’s pursuits. ![]() (If you think I’m overstating or mischaracterizing her message, please note that Rand literally published a non-fiction book titled The Virtue of Selfishness.) The rest of the world - populated only by collectivists, politicians, and other assorted “takers” - quickly begins to fall apart without them.Ītlas Shrugged serves as a page-turning enticement to Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which is based on the idea that selfishness should be the guiding virtue for all mankind. The mysterious hero of the book, John Galt, encourages captains of industry, inventors, and other heroes of capitalism to join him in a secret utopia hidden in Colorado called Galt’s Gulch. And like a lot of white males, Atlas Shrugged turned me into a huge jerk for a couple of months.Ītlas Shrugged, which was published in 1959 and came in second only after The Bible in a Library of Congress survey of influential books, is a 1,200-page sci-fi novel about what would happen if all the “makers” in the world were to go on strike. Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged when I was 18. ![]()
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![]() Rapid-fire, wickedly biting dialogue and an almost suffocating air of uncertainty and stratagem cultivate a gossipy debut, which capitalizes on present-day social media obsession and one’s ability to take control of their own narrative. Employing an eye-opening combination of Summer’s social media posts, police reports, and flashbacks, all told via alternating, realistic teen perspectives, Weaver expertly crafts a serpentine plot that moves without tarrying from one suspect to the next. But when Summer’s five million followers begin turning against the teens, labeling them as potential killers, the group joins forces to solve the crime and clear their names before public opinion alters the course of their lives forever. While Summer’s biggest fan, Cora Pruitt ex-boyfriend, Adam Mahmoud former roommate, Laney Miyamoto rival influencer, Avalon James and best friend, Grace Godwin, are shocked by her death, they’re also privately relieved, as Summer’s upcoming high-profile, tell-all memoir threatened to reveal each teen’s biggest secret. Halloween murder mystery party turns into a real murder when 16-year-old social media influencer Summer Cartwright is found dead with #TOXIC written on her face. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the slave Epictetus was one of the principal Stoic writers, the emperor Marcus Aurelius's upper-class background is more typical of its devotees. Private cultivation rather than social action makes for the good life. ![]() "The world is rational, but it is only amenable to active intervention within the limits of the individual's capacity. It is a kind of Platonism shrunk to a pursuit of private feelings and thoughts: Do the best with what you can control and refine, and let the rest go. Make the best of what can be humanly cultivated. The Stoics asked the Romans to realize that much that is encountered in life is beyond the individual's control. “The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hera then sends a gadfly to continuously sting her forcing her to forever roam the earth. Zeus sends Hermes to save her and Hermes killed Argus Hera took Argus's eyes and put them on a peacock. She however imprisoned her with hundred eyes Argus. ![]() Zeus changed her into a cow because she had an affair with him and he didn't want Hera to found out. Io Ran into Prometheus when he was bound to a rock. She closed the lid before one last thing "hope". She opened the box and punishments flew out. ![]() ![]() Pandora "The gift to all" Had a box full of troubles and was told to not open it. They go to live at a temple and are ordered to throw stones behind them which creates people, todays ancestors. Zeus pities them and lets them live since they are worshipers. Prometheus however saves them and tells them to get inside a chest. Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and arranged for men to get the better part of the animal (the meat where as the gods would get the fat and bones) Zeus was so upset with him that he created women and tied Prometheus to a rock and sent an eagle to eat the Titans liver even though he had helped him conquer the Titans Third Creation Story: Pyrrha and Deucalion Humans were created out of stone but they were so wicked that Zeus flooded the area to destroy them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo. It is interesting and well written a fast moving plot with accurate facts. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. The book is a 1988 novel so predates modern political and geopolitical situations. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Publication date 1988 Topics United States. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why, Tom? Is Scientology not enough to sate your appetite for batshit insanity? This book was also made into a bad movie by Sony Pictures, starring Tom Hanks. ![]() The book uses footnotes to back up its outlandish claims even though they are bullshit. The novel also depicts the Knights Templar as Gnostics who were in on the secret. ![]() The Da Vinci Code (literally Of Vinci Code da Vinci is not Leonardo's last name) tells the story of a conspiracy to hide the fact that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children. In the end, nothing is what it seems, and the explanation behind the whole thing is both "rational" and really stupid. ![]() Oh, and one of the "good guys" turns out to be a traitor with a hidden agenda. Robert Langdon, the series' protagonist and Dan Brown's obvious self-insert character, is a world-renowned Harvard professor of history of art and "symbology", which isn't even a real thing.Įach novel follows almost one boring formula: some important guy dies from unnatural causes Robert Langdon gets mixed up and, implicated in a conspiracy, has to go on the run looking for historical clues in an over-touristed city with a token female character who is always very beautiful and very smart ( but never as smart as Langdon), while being chased by an unstoppable killer. Because, guess what, they made fucking three. “ ”My dad told me this book was good! Everybody’s dad did! Did you know they made two Da Vinci Code movies? Well, they didn't. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When journalist Landon West disappears and his brother shows up to investigate, Abby can't help but feel the town closing ranks. Now, the string of unsolved disappearances that haunts the town is again thrust into the spotlight when a journalist investigating the story himself disappears.Ībigail has always felt like an outsider among the townspeople and her staff at The Passage Inn. ![]() Cutter's Pass is a place famous for its outdoor offerings - and its tragic history. Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, working at the Passage Inn, a resort nestled in the Appalachian mountain town of Cutter's Pass. With the disappearance of a journalist investigating a string of vanishings, the resort town of Cutter's Pass is once again thrust into the spotlight. New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda is back with a twisty and propulsive thriller. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ī Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature Told in Dantala’s naïve, searching voice, this astonishing debut explores the ways in which young men are seduced by religious fundamentalism and violence. When bloodshed erupts in the city around him, Dantala must decide what kind of Muslim and what kind of man he wants to be. Before long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties, as one of the sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise his own radical movement. ![]() With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque’s sheikh. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. ![]() When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyberspace will no longer be a world of relative freedom instead it will be a world of perfect control where our identities, actions, and desires are monitored, tracked, and analyzed for the latest market research report. Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig warns that, if we're not careful we'll wake up one day to discover that the character of cyberspace has changed from under us. ![]() Should cyberspace be regulated? How can it be done? It's a cherished belief of techies and net denizens everywhere that cyberspace is fundamentally impossible to regulate. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Often afterwards, when he had gone to sleep after trying desperately to recapture that beautiful image, he saw in his dreams a procession of young women who resembled her. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination-the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn.Īfter Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. The tale is recounted by François Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. When Alain-Fournier was killed in battle on the Meuse in 1914, he left behind Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel of wistful enchantment. ![]() |