[ken5050]

Can I ask how old you are?...see, either of Rand's two novels can have a stupendous impression on a 16 year old..which was my age when I first read them.....and all my friends were reading "Catcher in the Rye"..which is a much, much shorter book.....Rand makes you think, she overwhelms you, especially at that age..makes you question a lot of what you've been taught to date.......

[dubyagee]

Rand makes you think, she overwhelms you, especially at that age..makes you question a lot of what you've been taught to date.......

I agree! I would not recommend my children read this at their age. I'm old enough to know better! (35). My opinions are formed and can only be sharpened at this point...

[stylin_geek]

Ah yes, the Catcher in the Rye, the most over-hyped piece of twaddle ever passed of as literature. Ellsworth Toohey would have been proud of this Gallant Gallstone of a modern classic.

[PJ-Comix]

Rand's two novels can have a stupendous impression on a 16 year old..which was my age when I first read them.....

Yeah, there used to be a lot of really arrogant know-it-all 16-, 17-, and 18- year-olds who thought they had ALL the philosophical answers wrapped into a neat little package because they read Ayn Rand. I remember when they would smugly recite crap like "A equals A" as if it was something incredibly profound. Oh, and Ayn Rand could NEVER be wrong in their view.

I don't see too much of those young objectivist types anymore. Probably because youngsters nowadays prefer video games to reading. Also, there was a lot of falling away from Rand because of that Nathaniel Branden affair.