[pepsi_junkie]

The most striking feature of the book, Chambers said, was its “dictatorial tone . . . Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal . . . From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go!’”

Did Chambers actually read the book? To a gas chamber? That's an insane reading of it!

[r9etb]

Did Chambers actually read the book? To a gas chamber? That's an insane reading of it!

That's a bit of dramatic language ... but OTOH, speaking as somebody who's read the book several times, Chambers is essentially correct. Rand clearly doesn't care who dies, if they're not among her Select Few. (The fate of Eddie Willers, for example.)

[Magnatron]

Along the lines of another critic who said of someone that what she heard was:

“You lie - BOY!”

See how that works? It ain’t what they said, it’s what you THOUGHT they should have said.