So after reading for about a month, I found out that the copy of Atlas Shrugged I ordered from amazon.com is literally missing the last 51 pages. They are simply not there. The book stops on page 1141 when it should go to 1192 pages. It just cuts off right in the middle of a chapter.I agree with 4Sword, fuckers.. I'm sorry, man :(. Sucks you can't get a refund or anything.
This is the most frustrating and outrageous thing that has happened to me in a long time.
The irony of the whole mess is that the book portrays a society where the men who us their rational minds--the creators--have essentially abandoned the world because of the men who don't use their minds--the parasites. The world crumbles with error after error as men all claim that it wasn't their fault, that they couldn't do anything about it. Gone are the people that created the machines and the systems that worked, and left behind are the people who don't understand how a machine works, but only knows how they've been told to operate it. When something happens that they don't understand, they don't do anything: they don't know any better, it's not their fault, it's not their responsibility.
And so here I am, prevented from finishing what is the greatest book I've ever read, and I'm not even qualified to use that tense.
Considering that you are going to college, it'd be a surprise if they did not have the book in their library. But yeah, getting a book that has been desecrated like that is disappointing and wrong.
Book sounds good, although I don't think leaving the world because there is the inevitable stupidity (Only two infinites in the universe, the universe and stupidity, or however it goes) is very rational, although it may just be a metaphor for when the people who were used to work and solving problems essentially die out and leave people who can't handle something that goes wrong... I'll have to put it on 'The list'
Talk about a cliffhanger.I lol'd.
I own it... I could paste it page by page if you wish to read the rest?I wish you wouldn't have posted. It would have been hilarious if that really WAS the end of the book, judging from IL's first post, haha.
This topic proves that you just shouldn't read books
This happens to me all the time when I order from amazon :S.
I once ordered one book from a series, the first half was the correct book, the second half was of the sequal >_<. I sent it back to get replaced, guess what? The new book had the same problem, only in reverse >_>.
This happens to me all the time when I order from amazon :S.
I once ordered one book from a series, the first half was the correct book, the second half was of the sequal >_<. I sent it back to get replaced, guess what? The new book had the same problem, only in reverse >_>.
So at that point you had both halves of both books. Hoorah!
Relatedly: Dang, that sucks. D:
This topic proves that you just shouldn't buy booksBuy books? Yes, probably. Libraries exist for a reason I suppose.
This topic proves that you just shouldn't buy booksBuy books? Yes, probably. Libraries exist for a reason I suppose.
Read books? *Kills FISSURE*
This topic proves that you just shouldn't buy booksBuy books? Yes, probably. Libraries exist for a reason I suppose.
Read books? *Kills FISSURE*
But with some types of books, such as a book series really long (Wheel of Time lol) you should because everything is inter-related and I have to keep flicking back and forth through them to figure out where one guy comes from etc. Such as a character coming back from two or three books back.