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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe haven't been ripping on Ayn Rand enough lately
I decided Ayn Rand is a target if mine for now. Lets see:
Rand got started in writing due to an FDR art program. She died while on Social Security. She spent the in between years biting the hand that fed her. Ingrate supreme.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Fourth rate science fiction writer.
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)I came across my old hard back copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Did I sell it to the used book store? No
Did I donate it to the Library? No
Did I donate it to the Goodwill? No
Did I recycle it? No
Did I throw it in the garbage can with some stinky old fish bones? Why, yes. I did.
applegrove
(118,612 posts)applegrove
(118,612 posts)Galt, Galt he is ...
Oh sorry. I thought you said "riffing". My bad
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)I have to admit that when I first read Atlas Shrugged, maybe in high school, I was really drawn in with her compelling story telling. I thought it was a wonderful book. Then I read it again as an adult and had a completely different take - actually understood her selfish philosophy. I guess Paul Ryan never got past the high school phase.
applegrove
(118,612 posts)I read part of one of her books as an adult. It is compelling at first but then when you see the big picture, well that is when i threw it out before i had finished it. I think i threw it out. It may have been a library book in which case i definitely put it down, but returned it (them) to the Library. I read some celebrity was reading them. Did not know the history of them. Just that they were famous books. Then i got online years later and realized how damaging they were.
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)She was an ugly woman.
marble falls
(57,075 posts)Hekate
(90,642 posts)...yourself read the comment as body-shaming.
marble falls does not like me much, hence the comment.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)...liking for rough sex, aka bodice ripping.
marble falls
(57,075 posts)He's still ... juicy.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,027 posts)Thats all.
I read her works of fiction at an impressionable age and was not impressed.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)"It is to be hurled, with great force."
Dorothy Parker, I think.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year olds 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."
John Rodgers
Hekate
(90,642 posts)...to name his son Rand. Talk about warped.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She was such a brilliant wit.
The Rodgers quote is great as well. Ayn Rand is absolute garbage. I tried to get through Atlas Shrugged when I was in my early 20's and it bored me to tears. Terrible writing and horrible characters. I couldn't finish it.
She was a horrible person and a hypocrite of the highest order.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)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.
- John Rogers
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)I havent asked them what they think of her, especially of her view that Christian charity is a human weakness.