[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: the HP books came in 4th

[Lee Kaiwen]

kempermentor On 01/05/2008 23:44:

> Kemper now:
> You'd think more people would've read 'Fountainhead' over 'Atlas
> Shrugged'.

I would've thought people had read *anything* over "Atlas Shrugged". I 
had to read it for university and it was one of my least favorite 
memories of my college years. Incredibly long and massively boring.

The "massively boring" bit also applies to anything by Dan Brown (with 
apologies to the two OTChatter folk who voted for him). I have no idea 
how he ever got published. "Masively boring" (along with "intellectually 
insulting" and "historically boneheaded" also applies to DaVinci 
(DaVinci? DaVinci?!? The guy's name is LEONARDO, please!) Code, which 
was probably the worse thing I've read since Sword of Shannara thirty 
years ago. Definitely two hours of my life I'd like to get back.

> I wonder if the cult of Ayn Rand passed money to get A Shrugged 
 > on the list.

Petra doesn't say what poll it was. But if it's like the recent Time 
Magazine "100 Best English Language Novels" (which included at least one 
comic book!), the process was probably highly political. The Time Mag 
list reads like one of those "gotta include something by F. Scott 
Fitzgerald, gotta include something by Philip K. Dick" exercises.

Now that I've thoroughly offended all the Dan Brown, Terry Brooks and 
Ayn Rand fans here, I'll be off.

CJ