"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs
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that's hilarious. i never made it through "atlas shrugged", though i remember really liking "the fountainhead". atlas shrugged was just *too* tedious though.
i actually didn't read LOTR til sometime during my college years.
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