Recently I remembered a book that I had a hilarious encounter with when I was younger. Read the blurb on the back, grabbed it, and brought it to school in middle school. It was effectively a Sci-Fi smut story (And the school was a religious school). And from what I remember it wasn't even writte...

I was browsing through a library, and a book caught my eye. I pulled it out to look, and the opening paragraph was so stupid that I immediately put it back. I went back a few weeks later because I wanted to show someone else this amazing thing. :-) But it wasn't there. The book was about Pea...

When Dagny crashes in Galt's Gulch, we learn that Ellis Wyatt has been experimenting with ways of producing oil. There's no textual evidence that he's researching new applications of oil (unlike Hank Reardon, who actively researches new applications for his metal). Here's the problem: the main ...