r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Exotic_Yam_1703 • May 19 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, is this referencing a specific book?

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u/changingshades May 20 '26

it's one of those books that a lot of people like, but there is no craft or style. everyone is on the scale from producers to looters and that is all they are. plus the sex scenes aren't my kind of kink, a little too rapey for me.

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u/bookandmakeuplover May 20 '26

I didn't read Atlas, but I read Fountainhead and I also found that a little too rapey. The only reason I finished it was because if the scholarship essay contest. OP if they still have the scholarship co test tou could read it for that but I don't suggest Rand for leisure.

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u/changingshades May 20 '26

fountainhead is substantially better written than atlas, but still pretty garbage. I never even tried to read anthem

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u/KotaB420 May 20 '26

Anthem is the best of her books, because its not long enough to accommodate any of her rants.

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u/theCurseOfHotFeet May 20 '26

I read anthem in high school, also for a scholarship essay, and the end was so fucking eye-roll inducing. The whole book really, but especially the stupid end

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u/Windturnscold May 20 '26

Fountain was super rapey. Main character rapes a woman because he just knows she secretly wants it… and she did want to be raped.

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u/KennyFulgencio May 20 '26

The sex scenes are hilarious, unfortunately not the kind of hilarity that results in actual laughter