>>>>http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/trailer?gclid=CPunh_6SnagCFUh-5QodXhmhIQ
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>>>>The greatest novel of all time finally comes to the big screen.
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>>>Kevin, you know I like you and all, but I just don't have the words to tell you how much I disagree with you on this one. Although it occurs to me that I might have mentioned it before (once or twice).
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>>Clearly it is Dianetics ! <s>
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>That reminds me of something that happened maybe 40 years ago or so (I have to admit that I'm a little fuzzy on the date - late 60s to early 70s I would guess). I was walking down Yonge Street here in Toronto around the Dundas Intersection. A guy came up to me and tried to sell me the book. I asked him what it was about and he explained that it helped one to know oneself and gave one strength of mind and soul etc. etc. etc.
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>Anyway, I bought it. I actually knew about it, but had never read it. So, I took it home, read a bit of it and then threw it in the garbage. A couple of weeks later, in the same place, the same guy tried to sell me a copy again. I mentioned that I had bought it from him a couple of weeks before. He asked what I thought about it and I told him I'd chucked it in the garbage. The guy became livid. You could almost see steam coming out of his ears. So, I asked him if he'd read it, and he literally yelled that of course he had, spittle flying in all directions. I told him that it didn't seem to work very well and walked away.
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>I've only ever thrown one other book in the bin, and that was "Love Story". The girlfriend of a friend of mine (my girlfriend-in-law?) bought it (shortly after it came out - early 70s). She read about half of it and threw it in the kitchen bin. Henry got angry and told her you don't throw books in the garbage. So he retrieved it. He read about half of it and binned it (so much for principles). So, wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I grabbed it, read less than half and binned it again.
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>I've never done that with another book - just those two. I mean, not even Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain"; a book to which I confess having admitted defeat.

I think it is fair to say "Love Story" is to literature as Dianetics is to philosophy <bg>

The real question for those impressed with Dianetics is not have they read it but have they ever read anything else ?

I always was fascinated by LRH's talk of his "research" and "discoveries".

There's a seeker born every minute.