[Mojave]

Her followers used to claim (falsely) that Ayn sold more copies than the Bible. You would think that they would be pleased to have her called a Goddess.

[DesertRhino]

You would think that they would be pleased to have her called a Goddess.

The writer claimed “Goddess of the free market”. Exactly when was the last time in America that there was a free market economy, rather than a centrally-planned economy?

[mmercier]

it was somewhere claimed that atlas shrugged was the most influential book on thinking americans since the bible.

i have never heard your assertion, but dont doubt it has been put out there.

all of her works remain in print, no small feat for fiction/philosophy.

i am presently rereading the fountainhead and for the new intellectual.

many people are immediately turned off by her writing style, not to mention objectivism.

[snowrip]

Her followers used to claim (falsely) that Ayn sold more copies than the Bible.

Fail again. The figure you're looking for is the Library of Congress study that shows Atlas Shrugged as being the second-most influential book of all time... second to the Bible.