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The Story of O.
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This book I read called "The Last Canadian".
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The Bible, sure. But Atlas Shrugged? Puhleese. You're in your own personal fantasy land with that one.
BTW, I have a first edition of Atlas Shrugged and it's worth a couple hundred bucks. My almost first edition of Gone With the Wind would have been worth a couple thousand but it turned out to be a second printing. On the Antiques Roadshow, for comparison, a first edition of The Book of Mormon, was about $75K IIRC. |
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I've seen precisely 1 copy of Atlas Shrugged in my entire life, and I'm studying to become a Library Technician.
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That's a great Krugman quote.
As for the Atlas Shrugged mythology, there are a lot of Libertarians who believe in Rand folly. It's no wonder they push the myth their god is the greatest. But I'm pretty sure the fact there are more Mormons, more Christians, more Muslims, more Hindus and so on than Libertarians is evidence the worship of Rand is full of exaggerated beliefs about the influence of Randism. Heck, the Libertarians can't even get their own candidates in major elections in this country, they have to run as Republicans. Is it true that Atlas Shrugged is the second most influential book ever written?
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Heh, I have to share the story of how I found the first edition. At out Friends of the Library book store they had a display on the top shelf. They had old books in groups of 3-4 literally glued together to make fake displays. When I saw Atlas Shrugged I talked the sales clerk into selling it to me. But I didn't want to damage it so I took it and the book it was glued to for $2. I took them home and carefully separated them. Turns out the other book was worth about $50 as well. But without the dust jacket the Atlas Shrugged book is worth a lot less than if it had had the jacket. Still, for $2 it was a score.
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My bet is not on single titles, but on a genre: Cookbooks are IMO the most influential ever printed.
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For the record, the quote wasn't Krugman's originally - he quoted it from John Rogers heree: http://kfmonkey.blogspot.se/2009/03/...ra-2009-7.html
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If we discount the bible, I would have to say the collected works of Aristotle. His influence on philosophy was enormous.
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Indeed it certainly is. In fact the whole thesis of AS revolves around idiocy and the various ways it manifests itself in collective society. Namely, when people shirk the responsibility for individual decisions and place their trust in the collective, they have rejected to that extent, intelligent thinking and decision making, and embraced idiocy.
It's not the first time I've agreed with varwoche, although never in the way expected. ![]() But someone should politely inform the Bamsters that AS is just a fiction book, not an instruction manual. |
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i loves the little birdies they goes tweet tweet tweet hee hee i loves them they sings to each other tweet twet tweet hee hee i loves them they is so cute i love yje little birdies little birdies in the room when birfies sings ther is no gloom i lobes the little birdies they goess tweet tweet tweet hee hee hee i loves them they sings me to sleep sing me to slrrp now little birdies - The wisdom of Shemp. |
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The Analects of Confucius is another good contender.
And while we're in China - The Art of War. |
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For the record, if you look at my assertion above:
No other response would be expected or proper from the Ellsworth Toohey of 2012. And then you look at the actual article by Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/201...sworth-toohey/ You will find that Krugman admits to being the slimeball of the planet. |
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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Newton's Principia belongs on the short list. Certainly it belongs higher on the list than Wiki's #49 in Andy's second post.
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Though he likely wasn't the first to have done so (according to what I've read anyway,) I'd suggest Herodotus' The Histories as pretty influential, if only due to the style of constructing a cohesive historical narrative upon which many more modern works would follow.
While the bias and historical accuracy of the contents can be questionable at best (and pretty far in the "holy crap!" zone at worst,) it's still recognizable for its literary influences. |
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It's interesting how few books on the above (impressively comprehensive) "most influential" list are works of fiction. Don Quixote was a good pick - I'm glad they included it. And of course there is the Bible, but it's my understanding that AndyAndy does not want us to blaspheme in this particular thread.
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