Aargh

Ayn Rand is totally pissing me off. No, not because she’s a reactionary b**ch (though I’ve heard it said). No. It’s because the stupid book (Atlas Shrugged, that is) is actually kind of interesting. Not interesting as in “I think I’ll become an objectivist” (or wtf they call themselves), but as in “I’d really like to finish this”. But it’s so bloody loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

I don’t, as a rule, mind long books. In fact, I mostly think huge, weighty tomes A Good Thing. However, not if most of it is waffle. Or not waffle exactly, but certainly spending 1000 words saying something that could be said in 10. I’ve only read about 300 pages in about a week, and I’ve got 500 pages to go (this copy has 1100 pages of TINY print). That means another week and a half of my reading life spent on this.

Of course, I could just put it down and not finish, but then it IS actually kind of interesting.

Urk.

Addendum: I’ve finished. Also, a point needs to be cleared up: Personally I don’t, as a matter of fact, think Rand is a reactionary b**ch, I’m just quoting hearsay. On the evidence of Atlas Shrugged she seems like rather an interesting person. Her philosophy or politics do not annoy me at all – her verbosity, however, did.