Article note: Oh Node ecosystem. I though you were a joke for years (a literal "no one seriously uses this" joke), and it keeps turning out I was right, just not how I thought.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.