[ml/nj]

Ayn Rand is to literature as WJC is to ethics.

And you, of course, are the supreme judge of everything.

I've read Atlas Shrugged probably six times by now. It's an incredibly great novel by a woman of remarkable perception. Just the idea of writing about an "Equalization of Opportunity Bill" and an "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Bill" in the 50's is amazing to me. The book is sufficiently complex that I notice something new each time I go back to it. Maybe it overwhelmed you?

ML/NJ

[justshutupandtakeit]

I have read all her novels of which I am aware. The best is Fountainhead and even it is not worthy of consideration on such a list. A.S. is a ham-handed polemic with one-dimensional characterizations. Compared with truly great writers' literature: Dickens, Doestoevski, Flaukner, even Steinbeck, Melville, Austin and dozens of others it looks amatuerish. Now compared to Stephen King, Danielle Steel, Erica Jong, Harold Robbins, Leon Uris, Zane Grey, or Loius L'Amour it is adequate.

You are wasting your time re-reading such a book when there are hundreds of more significant ones out there. Maybe thousands.