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I’m working contract and can bring limited book with me. Atlas Shrugged, Animal Farm and 1984, plus the Bible, are the four I brought with me.

6 posted on 04/15/2016 4:54:04 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)

To: GeorgiaDawg32

I brought the same list, plus the Complete Shakespeare and the Complete Sherlock Holmes on a long trip.

15 posted on 04/15/2016 5:11:59 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)

To: GeorgiaDawg32

I always wonder if current admirers of Atlas Shrugged, like Paul Ryan, understand what a huge ATHEIST Rand was.

Or, if they understand how—in an apparently delusional state (Borderline Personality Disorder?)—she demanded her protegee, Nathaniel Brandon, 20 years her junior, divorce his wife and marry her. (It didn’t happen. Instead the episode shattered the Objectivist movement in about 1969.)

Rand’s Aristotle fetish is also something most people grow out of by the time they are college freshmen.

It is true she hated socialism and communism, courtesy of the USSR. But her flaws argue that she should not be placed on a very high pedestal.

And yes, I have read every word she ever wrote, even her newsletters back in the day.

20 posted on 04/15/2016 5:27:05 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian

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