The only book I have re-read multiple times. The only thing that breaks my heart is that Ms. Rand was an atheist. I would have found her company engaging forever. Fountainhead was good, but not Atlas Shrugged. We The Living was so horribly sad, I couldn’t take it.
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Have you read Anthem?
Her personal life was a mess. I suspicion she saw herself as a tall, gorgeous blond like her heroines - but trapped in a short, dumpy, dark homely body.
That said, if we judged/read books by the private lives of the authors rather than the content of the books, we'd miss a lot of valuable information/insight.
I diverge with Ms. Rand on that one too. What's interesting--and I believe she uses the "A is A" argument against the existence of God--just as she does justifying abortion; i.e., "a fetus is not a human being, so abortion is not wrong."
I could be paraphrasing, and I could be completely mistaken in my recollection about this. Please enlightenn me.