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Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death
Read the book then give me a review. You might actually like it
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I liked
Atlas Shrugged but it should have been about 4,000,000 pages shorter.
We the Living was better (because it was shorter, IMO). If you read
Atlas Shrugged, don't bother with
The Fountainhead; they're 82% the same story. I'm not passionate about Rand but I don't regret having read her novels.
Rand's philosophy "Objectivism" is clearly a product of the Soviet revolution in the early 20th century, and has some serious holes, IMO. But, it's an interesting historiographical source for seeing one intellectual response to communism. In the end, Rand's extremism is as tiring to me as communism's. Same bird, different ends of the spectrum (and yes, I mixed that metaphor on purpose).