[Churchillspirit]

I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.

[highimpact]

Bother. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain.

[snowrip]

The Fountainhead was a great read, but nowhere near the same league as Atlas Shrugged.

[grey_whiskers]

I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.

Don't. Even the sex scene between Hank Reardon and Dagny Taggart is boring.

Too much of Rand was written in opposition to the Communists, to the point that she almost comes off as a photographic negative of their beliefs--excepting of course the secular atheism.

No, I couldn't finish the book--and as proof of my endurance, I even managed to make it to the end of Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Years..

Cheers!

[Misterioso]

I struggled through The Fountainhead and now I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.

I am often amused that so many "readers" of Ayn Rand's books are willing to boast of their ignorance and herd mentality. These threads are the evidence of why she recoiled from conservatism. It doesn't take any great amount of intelligence to "get" Objectivism, so long as you are able to question your knowledge.

[TheKidster]

I look at Atlas Shrugged on my book shelf and wonder if I should bother.

You must read it, it's like a prophecy of our current political environment. It's uncanny in it's accuracy.