[cgbg]

The movies are good—and give a fair idea of the novel.

I was a bright youngster when I was sixteen, and my parents were not happy when they figured out its effect on me.

At one point they were issuing orders I did not like (telling me to stay away from my hot girlfriend) and I said (in classic Ayn Rand style):

“You chose to have me as your child. I did not choose to have you as my parents.”

Ayn Rand is about declaring your independence as a human being—and telling the tyrants to go f&^% off.....

They were stunned and speechless.

[newfreep]

At one point they were issuing orders I did not like (telling me to stay away from my hot girlfriend) and I said (in classic Ayn Rand style): “You chose to have me as your child. I did not choose to have you as my parents.” Ayn Rand is about declaring your independence as a human being—and telling the tyrants to go f&^% off..... They were stunned and speechless.

I gotta ask, what happened next?

I can relate...my hot girlfriend was the petite, blue-eye blonde who lived next door.

We hopped a greyhound and took a "vacation" to Florida. When "johnny law" returned us, we officially became juvenile delinquents with probation officers.

I continued to get straight As and even became the substitute teacher of my high school physics class when the alcoholic teacher wasn't able to stagger into the classroom.

All the while as a juvenile delinquent...

[Silentgypsy]

What do you think your response would have been if your parents had replied, “You have not become the child we would have chosen”?