Seeing as how I'm living in a real life Atlas Shrugged world ...

[dogtag]

I figured I may as well read it again. I could watch the three
part movie but the different actors put me off. The first time
I read it in the distant past I endured the seemingly endless
John Galt diatribe which apart from being endless, was boring
and repetitive and I gleaned nothing from it that I hadn't got
from the preceding pages. So the next time, I skipped it.
So I will this time. 200 pages in, and a 1000 to go.
Maybe I'm doing some kind of penance I'm not aware of, but
taken with an occasional sip of bourbon, it ain't too bad a slog.

[dryheat]

That's the way I did it. I pretty much had the rant memorized and just skipped over it after the second or third time.

[dogtag]

That's the way I did it. I pretty much had the rant memorized and just skipped over it after the second or third time.

We have some here who remind me of Wesley Mouch or Bertram Scudder

[dryheat]

Writers have assistants. You can tell when Larry McMurtry has built the structure of the story and the help fills it in.

-Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd-

In this book, their first collaboration, you could tell from one sentence to the next who was writing. I didn't care for the fluff and skipped over a lot of it once I caught on.