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 I need to read this!

Is it on par with Atlas Shrugged!? 
 Not super comparable. 
Easy read or listen.  
Its just a family, The Mandibles. Follows them in a post US economic collapse.  Not necessarily what will happen but a plausible outcome. 
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 Awesome thanks! 
 Altlas shrugged is like 1500 pages lol.  I listened to the audio book on tape many years ago and it was great buuuut was like 15hours long 
 i barely managed 200 pages, if that, and decided it was boring af 
 The ideas are extremely important but the cliffs notes are an alternative 
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 yeah, i just think it's something for a quieter time

i tried to read lovecraft and also found it extremely tedious

i did start reading Fountainhead, i think it was, that was easier going

one thing i will say, is that part of what makes her so important but also so hard to read is that it's too much like reality, like, even though we fight, it seems so much like we are only winning the small things and the big things keep getting bigger, darker and uglier 
 60 hours I think 
 Was it that long?  It was 35 years ago.
On Cassets lol 
 63 hours, according to google, to be more exact 😆  
 yeah, i didn't think 15 hours was nearly enough... that's gonna just be enough for like The Hobbit or Long Dark Teatime of the Soul 
 I have to admit that it changed my life. 

Some of the monologues are tough to get through for sure.

And yes it’s a tome.

I think it’s over 60 hours on audio 😂