23rd
I'm Writing Again (maybe)
When I purchased Bioshock, I found out it was based heavily on the philosophy of a writer named Ayn Rand. I checked out some of her works from the library, and I’m now reading Atlas Shrugged.
I picked, of course, one of the longest books ever written. I read this for two hours and got through about 30 pages. The font is minute, perhaps size six. That all aside, the first 30 pages were nothing short of stunning.
One of the problems I had with All the King’s Men (an English required-read) was that the themes were so convoluted and subdued that I couldn’t understand them. When Rand makes a simile, when she forms a metaphor, she puts everything on the table. They’re not obvious, but they’re not obscured by the overly flowery language Robert Penn Warren used.