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Not sure what year the cover photo was taken (book published in 1999), but I probably snapped that point-and-shoot shot out of my car window around 2009 or 2010.
That recently? I ask because it's been a long time since that area wasn't that developed. (and it looks like you used film)
 

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I'm reading Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, which is a very atmospheric novel set in Kamchatka, in the far east of Russia, centred around the disappearance of two young girls. The author also happens to be the niece of a good friend and colleague of mine.

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The Martian by Andy Weir.
 

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I am reading Ad Infinitum: A biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler. It goes over how Latin, one of many languages within the pre-Roman Italian peninsula, came to be the language of empire, law, religion, and science, and how it continues to pervade our modern society.
 

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Atlas Shrugged is unreadable. Fountainhead is quite good, tho. Kind of like Stephen King before and after The Stand.
 

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Thankfully ayn rand is neither

I thought Rand was the **** when I was young and clueless in my early twenties... I wish someone had told me back then that she was full of ****.
 

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I thought Rand was the **** when I was young and clueless in my early twenties... I wish someone had told me back then that she was full of ****.

Wish someone had told me that before Tommyknockers.
 

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“I actually do like to read,” I said, after I’d ventured a sip.

“Such as?” She was now studying her glass of whiskey.

...

“Ayn Rand.”

“That crazy old dyke,” she barked, then noticed my shocked expression. “I don’t know, you get the idea that the Empire State Building’s her idea of an excellent marital aid.”

I’ve tried to read Ayn Rand several times since that night, but somehow the charge, however reckless, sent her plummeting down the face of a skyscraper into the gutter reserved for embarrassing former enthusiasms.


— Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
 

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Someday I will finish Gravity’s Rainbow.
 

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I thought Rand was the **** when I was young and clueless in my early twenties... I wish someone had told me back then that she was full of ****.
For some reason which always escaped me The Fountainhead was very popular amongst a number of architectural students/friends at Sydney Uni in the early 80’s.

Personally I tried to read Atlas Shrugged but gave up. Always thought her work and its philosophy of individualism to be ethically and morally bankrupt. Can see why such vacuous crap is popular in the current global political climate.
 

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Personally I tried to read Atlas Shrugged but gave up. Always thought her work and its philosophy of individualism to be ethically and morally bankrupt. Can see why such vacuous crap is popular in the current global political climate.

I do think a lot of libertarian ideas like personal responsibility could be a good guide to lead one’s own life but they are best not applied in macro scale; like as a guideline for setting a social policy(maybe other than legalizing most of the drugs).
 

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Brave New World - pretty amazing book frankly, very interesting insight into human nature.
 

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