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Actually it does not start with the action. It starts with the scene with the quirky dying of the banyon trees in the garden. The press conference isn’t held until halfway through the book.

Hi! Eric, an old friend here. One of the finest things about Crichton is the blending of science and humanity and presenting them in a techno-thriller style. However, I am only familiar with two of his novels, Andromeda Strain and Congo. So I think Eruption has the same style and it definitely will be my upcoming read. I would like to know what you think about Congo if you have read it. Happy reading, always.

Attack a book and the attacker gets another book in return.❤

I have read The Noise and Zoo by Patterson and Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Crichton. While I enjoyed all of those books, I also appreciated the authors' different approaches to writing. I think a Crichton/Patterson mashup would be too weird for me.😅

Also, I overall didn't like Finn, but I did like a line that Finn has. So he's been arrested by the police because they think he's someone else, and the crazy police officers start torturing Finn to get the "truth" out of him. When the craziness of one of the police officers starts making itself manifest, Finn asks, "Are you okay?" It's such a funny question coming from the guy being tortured. I laughed out loud.

Random notes on a couple of these: In Danny Coughlin's dream story, I really wish he didn't make the crazy police detective religious. King does this all the time with his villains. Sometimes this makes sense, but in this case, he already had the villainous elements in place. It's like he put it in there out of habit. The villain would have been more logically consistent without it.

I put the fifth step first because I'm learning English now. Thanks for your share.bro .

Freedom of speach is important because you dont know how much easy to make people blind by totalitarianism religions

Very cool way to review short stories in a book. Enjoyed your review, as always

With a little "reading between the lines" I learned that you'll have to read the book multiple times in order to retain the information alot better. (Which I'm cool with it) How many times? That varies on the readers capacity to remember the information. Timeless book. 👍

Another excellent book is her first published novel, We the Living.

Perfect beard length. Nailed it

Fight Club is a very sickening and dark book. Their self destruction is so violent and stupid, their thoughts are so dark and disturbing, it is so hard to push through the reading. i dont understand why nobody says the self beat up and gory messes up their head? Why are people trying to act cool by saying Fight Club is a cool/genius/etc (majority only had watched the movie but not read the book). it is not cool. it is stupid as hell. i feel like i am wasting my time trying to run through the book as fast as possible to save my sanity. i suspect the writer Chuck Palahniuk may have a mental illness to have conjured so much violence, bloody mess, self destruction and such sad lives. Only a person with a very dark mind can think of such and to write a bloody book of it! i would not suggest this book/movie for anyone with depression. Too much insanity and bloody gory in destroying their stupid sad lives, nonstop like a vertigo to make me want to vomit! To the book reviewers and people who watched the movie and say Fight Club is cool, i suspect they are the type that got bullied often and imagined themselves fighting someone. LOL!😂

I saw the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. So then I read the book. Now I’m glad that I saw the movie, but only because it introduced me to read the book.

Good discussion. Looking forward to documentary.

After three or four failed attempts to get through the book I finally conquered it and left the experience with a kind of ho-hum attitude towards it. I've read a few Ayn Rand books beforehand, both fiction and non-fiction so I was familiar with her "style" of writing and her philosophy. I actually quite enjoyed The Fountainhead, although, like Atlas Shrugged, is far too long and would have benefited greatly with a serious editing. Whereas The Fountainhead had a more concise story and kept its characters to a few, Atlas Shrugged is just weighed down by too many plotlines and far too many characters. It all feels like an author's ego run wild and she just should have focused on the primary themes. Most of those secondary characters come and go and add very little to the story, oftentimes bringing it to a dead stop just as it was getting interesting. It's ironic that the story should focus on a railroad because it derails frequently over the thousand plus pages. What initially attracted me to it were the two ideas: "the immovable movers" and "I will stop the motors of the world." But the story just meanders along, then you come to the long speech by John Galt. I thought this was going to be where I would cone to an insurmountable obstacle. Howard Roark in The Fountainhead also gives a very long winded speech during his trial as he justifies his actions. But I found this passage to be among the best and breezed through it quite quickly. Without spoiling the ending, I found it underwhelming and it reads like a scene from an action movie, feeling totally out of place with the rest of the story. Ayn Rand cannot write dialogue. It's laughably wooden and feels like you're being lectured to rather than hearing natural conversation between two characters. This is also the weakest aspect of The Fountsinhead. I highly recommend watching the film version starring Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper. Director King Vidor was forbidden to tinker with the dialogue as Rand kept a close eye on the production and made sure it was a faithful adaptation. It's laughably serious and very heavyhanded in how it delivers its "message". I don't subscribe to her values and sees the virtue of selfishness, but the themes of individuality is one I gravitated towards and discarded the rest. I cannot imagine reading this again. Once was more than enough.

Great exchanges!

Just a note that Cityboy should be one word.

Good interview

Thank you! I loved this book as he shares his concept of mortality, suffering through chemotherapy and radiation. Very inspiring.

Thanks for having me!

Great reviewer🎉

as a dictator i think this book will beneficial to me as well.. thank you for your review

Thanks for another thoughtful analysis. (That is a great line!)

Thank you..❤

I just finished it and honestly I assumed going in that a book this long would at least have some nuance. It misses the mark hard as an example of the political philosophy presented as every capitalist is a perfect chad who is always the most correct, smartest, most talented person in the room. John Galt basically says “I’m right and everyone who disagrees with me secretly knows they are wrong and hate everything.” Disco Elysium is a very pro-communist piece of media but even it spends a good chunk of time critiquing its own ideology.

When I saw the Netflix documentary Hack your Health I thought this was some sham research, but when I read the book, yes, I got convinced of Giulia's research. Ayurveda too discusses about the 3 doshas - wind, acidity and mucous. My acidity vanished once I started the habit of drinking no water 15 min before and after any meal and consuming half a bottle 30 min later. All the best to Giulia Enders

Historical architecture is what your stammering to conclude

One of the finest books I have ever read. I absolutely loved it and cannot recommend it highly enough.

Atlas shrugged. A book about Villains who don't know they are villains and heroes who don't want to be heroes

Great review! Just read the book. Loved it.

the Hunger Games type section was incredibly boring

Oh, yeah... that's 100% pride. Once you have built your whole identity on being X... not being that is death to some

You should be a therapist. Your voice is like butter. I've had this book in my TBR for so long. I guess it's time to read it.

i read his first book "Cant Hurt Me" when i was in a very dark place mentally. I suffered Depression and psychosis... i really pushed my self to not give up on life it inspired me to go trough the mental toughness lessons and maybe become stronger after this horrible disease, in the bible there's a quote that says " Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Just by reading the bible and listening and Reading Davids story brings me a greater vision and mindset so i highly recommend reading both books, stay strong everyone, there is hope and purpose is always there, its you becoming a best version of yourself!

Great review. I agree with you on the 5 stars for this one; life-changing to think about the themes. But, wait... did you say his "eyes is opened"? Precision of language, Jonas. I'm really enjoying your videos. I appreciate the depth of analysis that you achieve in such brief videos.

"I was nice to this person and it turns out I got exactly what I wanted." If not convincing, highly tempting. I'm gonna keep a box of chocolates on hand to help out any money launderers who are sufficiently repentant.

Comedy gold that can't be duplicated. Requires ignorance on one side and knowledge on the other. Once the author is aware of the error, it's no longer funny. That being said, I didn't realize that new moons rose with the sun. I'm just learning now that the time of moon rising is part of the phases of the moon. You've ruined my chances at making this humorous moment for someone else.

It will be great work of Salman Rushdie for freedom of speech as well as stayed courageous .❤

Ayn Rand misunderstood Max Stirner's "Einzige" - Stirner was an individualist mystic in his "The Only One and It's Possessions" who infuriated Karl Marx and the Capitalist establishment.

God gave him another chance to live after an attack. The fool is still a Atheist. What an arrogant man. As for those who persist in disbelief, it is the same whether you warn them or not-they will never believe. Lord has sealed their hearts and their hearing, and their sight is covered. They will suffer a tremendous punishment. Pretty much sums it up.

that book is amarzing

Many of the complaints about this novel come about through applying the standards of naturalism to the book. We are deeply steeped in naturalism in our culture. Rand wasn't just not a naturalist, she was against naturalism as a debased anti-conceptual approach to art. Rand didn't write didactically, and her characters are rich realizations of fundamental principles. They will only seem "flat" to someone who only has that word in their vocabulary to describe a person who doesn't have what Rand called "mixed premises". Our world is full of mixed people, that's what we're used to, it's what our literary standards hold as good and interesting. But Rand wasn't interested in recreating something haphazard. She wanted a complexity full of characters each showing how certain principles work out against each other. In most cases you see how they come across on the surface at first, and over time you see deeper into their motivation, until the fundamental principles are revealed. For lesser characters of course there may not be time for a progression. What she is showing you in her characters is an inductive progression by which you can identify over time what are the premises each person operates on. If you aren't used to thinking that way they will just look like unchanging unconflicted types, i.e. "flat". What you're missing is how the evidence builds over time to understand what core ideas are driving these people, that's the progression for many of her characters. Of course some of the characters have their own progression toward understanding, i.e. Dagny, Rearden, Cheryl, even Jim Taggart in the perverse slow grind of coming face to face with his real self. Anyway this is the same pattern as any brand of Rand criticism, it is mostly done from the point of view of our culture's common values, and she absolutely stood apart from that. This is not about whether you will agree with her, but rather it's about understanding her. You simply never will if you don't study her foundational premises and arguments. Anyone interested in getting the most out of the book might find a lot of value in the Ayn Rand Institute Channel's video series of discussions about the book, it's called "The Atlas Project".

Interesting. This sounds like it has some great nuggets in there.

Salman Rushdie is a brilliant novelist and short story writer !...

I've read both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. And I loved both books.

Seems interesting and kind of similar to Robert Ludlum and some of his themes which I find only sometimes work but are usually at least entertaining lol. Great video nevertheless keep it up!

I just ordered this last night. The movie is haunting me. Opp's motivations seem to flipflop a lot, and don't make a heck of a lot of sense. Hoping the book helps me understand better. Buuuut. Is this a biography or a novel? Some of the things you say in here lead me to believe it's more a novel than a straight biography. Amazon says the book will be here tomorrow; guess I'll find out then. Thanks for the Fermi recommendation!

It's not that a person does not want to be responsible for their actions. The truth is you can't be responsible for your actions once you have your first drink or drugs because of how it inhibits the part of your brain that is responsible for rational thinking/responsibility (Prefontal cortex). If your sober The prefrontal cortex would be working as it should due to the absence of substances.

Great review thank you. As someone who is moving more into acting myself I came across this book today and thought ohhh I gotta read this. He also has a cool acting class on CZcams. I’ll check it out thanks for the recommendation.