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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:22:58 AM EDT
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ive read several of her books....I never finished Atlas shrugged....
eta, I dont know that she was ahead of her time....Much of her point of view stemmed from her family loosing everything to the state/communisim |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:27:26 AM EDT
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...and why is he so verbose?
I've never gotten any kind of objection to her basic idea of "Use your brain when faced with problems" other than "I disagree just because". |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:29:32 AM EDT
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...he's a character in a book which I could never bear to finish.
 I was sitting there, 200 or so pages in, when I realized that I had been reading a description of sunlight and shadow on a street for a page and a half.  |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:30:43 AM EDT
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Theres a street named after him in Omaha
 Not sure if it is the one from the book or not |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:32:57 AM EDT
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I just started the book last night. Loved Fountainhead, so i'm sure this will be a good read as well.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:34:59 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:36:09 AM EDT
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she needed a better editor....badly
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:38:04 AM EDT
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I read it when I was 13 and still think its one of the best books I ever read. My parents thought I was nuts. They still do.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:38:04 AM EDT
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Amen. The trick when reading Ayn Rand is to only read every fifth paragraph. She repeats herself so much that you really won't miss anything. 
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:39:16 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:39:33 AM EDT
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Put it down and read The Fountainhead first.
At least that's the order I'd recommend. Try to understand that as with any worldview, Rand got some things wrong. Her sense of intimacy is skewed, and since she was not a native english speaker/writer, she tended to beat the points she was trying to make into a pulp and then stomp on the pieces. Her editors couldn't get past her vehement refusal to consider deleting things, and not only that, they couldnt' figure out what parts of her brilliance they felt smart enough to try and excise. So keep that in mind. But start with the Fountainhead, as that's the core of the philosophy in terms of mans obligations to himself and lack of obligation to those he does not choose to cleave to himself. |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 2:54:22 PM EDT
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Rand was simplistic in her writing and didn't even attempt to live up to her ideals in real life. Her affair with Nathaniel Branden, for example, which destroyed his marriage, not to mention her demonization of him after he decided to quit screwing her (some copies of her books have paragraphs in them informing everyone that she never wants to have anything to do with him again and wants everyone to know this important fact).
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:01:50 PM EDT
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Ayn Rand wrote some good stuff but she was kind of crazy. She had a cult back in the 60's.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:14:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:18:19 PM EDT
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Tag for cult info. 
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:50:08 PM EDT
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Finished it about a week ago. Good book but about 1/3 longer than it needed to be.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:53:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:56:21 PM EDT
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Society, not a cult. A cult is religious. Objective Rationality is the theme, it is not a cult. No religion involved. |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 3:59:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/3/2007 4:11:44 PM EDT
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I've read The Foutainhead and Atlas Shrugged and was very impressed with her writing. In fact I sent my copy of The Fountainhead to my girlfriend's brother (an architect) just a few weeks ago.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 4:15:44 PM EDT
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+1 on reading Fountainhead first.
On a side not, Alan Greenspan was one of the founding members of the Ayn Rand society (at least that is what it says in the jacket of my copy of Atlas shrugged) Speed |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 4:21:44 PM EDT
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Both Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged should be required reading. Even a condensed version might open up the eyes of some.
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Posted: 1/3/2007 4:48:49 PM EDT
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To me that book was like slow torture, well untill I got aroung page 100, and just couldnt take it any more the book accidently got ripped up and thrown out!
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Posted: 1/3/2007 4:55:33 PM EDT
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"Who is John Galt" is more of a statement than a question. I've got a t-shirt with that question printed on the front. Amazing the number of people that ask that question. Read the book, don't skip anything, then read it again (yeah, it's a lot of reading) but if you're going to try to understand the question, you need the whole thing.
It's on my summer reading list every year, along with Fountainhead, We The Living, amongst others. ( you can skip We The Living, it's interesting but not "required reading"  )
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