Ayn Rand

[Deja Q]

Her books.

[JVS]

1. They can be fun to read, but I wouldn't call them good

[Tektonik]

2. I'd rather be a eunuch in BewaretheBeastMan's harem

than read Ayn Rand. ugh

[Aiptasia]

3. words suck

[Benhurst]

4. You have to admit, though, The Fountainhead is

one of the funniest movies ever filmed. Unintentionally funny, but funny nevertheless. A camp classic.

[swimmernsecretsea]

6. Oh, it's hilarious!

During the montage when Patricia Neal's character is sobbing on her couch as she recalls Gary Cooper using a drill into a rock crevice the audience laughed so hard at this hammer-handed Freudian image I thought there was going to be a mass pants-wetting!

It's wonderful to see with a fresh audience...people can't stand it, it's so funny!

[swimmernsecretsea]

5. I've enjoyed reading them, and felt they changed my outlook positively

but I do need to say after a certain point you must abandon her philosophies to form your own.

A high school friend was reading "Atlas Shrugged" when a teacher spotted her with the book. He said he loved reading her books, and they made him want to succeed more, but once he got older and more mature, he realized there was a lot missing from her ideas.

I didn't understand what he meant until I'd read her books myself. I very much enjoyed reading them, and, during the '90's, her books seemed to be echoed in real life. Once I started thinking about her philosophies, however, I thought how cruel you must be to practice them, and how money hardly rewards the achievements of man the way she seems to think in "Atlas Shrugged."

I still feel it was a positive experience reading her work, and think that, as with any ideas, before you can make them your own you have to compare them with other thoughts, and see how they perform in the world.

[GirlinContempt]

7. She was

reincarnated as Ann Coulter, I'm sure of it.
*shudder*

[silvermachine]

8. Loathe would be too mild a term....

....EOM

[cestpaspossible]

9. I enjoyed reading her books as a youth, but her ideas are nuts.

I didn't vote in the poll.

[BamaLefty]

10. I Dislike Her, Like Her Books

I read Atlas Shrugged last semester for 11th grade English, and I actually did like the plot. But, her philosophy is crap... her characters have nothing to do with God (like today's conservatives)... they are self-serving and selfish. That and the situations are unpractical in today's world.

Going to live in a magic, hidden valley working like a slave and then returning back to the world to be raped 24/7? Sign me up!!! :eyes:

[bleedingheart]

11. Interesting personal story ...

My mother in law has to be one of the most un-maternal women I have ever met, she has pitted one son against the other, has even at times "disowned" her children. Sadly her kids try so hard to make her happy in spite of it...and crave her attention.

I always sensed that she weighed every decision on whether it would benefit her or not...and then I found out very recently (from her ex-husband) that she was a big devotee of Ayn Rand...(which explains all the books that ended up in my husband's possession)...

just had to share that...

[NoPasaran]

12. Excellent doorstops

[ooglymoogly]

13. she put a simplistic pretty face on unfettered greed

but i have to admit i read them all as a youth, but even then i knew her philosophy was silly in the deepest sense of the word and could only lead to hell on earth....just like where we are headed right now.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Where's the option for "loathe with the intesity of one thousand

red giants?"

[demnan]

15. The books are entertaining if you don't take it seriously

[blindpig]

16. she'd have made a fine Satanist

same ethos.

[bridgit]

17. laissez faire, anti-republic version of: l. ron hubbard...

imo

"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." Ayn Rand, "For The New Intellectual," For The New Intellectual

welcome to the ayn rand gibberish generator: http://www.hypermall.com/cgi-bin/rand-quotes.pl

[hickman1937]

18. I read a few in 10th grade.

I just skipped over the philosophy portions because they bogged down the plot. Was John Galt a cleaned up version of Henry VIII? If you can't own it, destroy it? I couldn't get through more than a couple paragraphs because I'm allergic to windbags.
edit for bad typing.

[bertha katzenengel]

19. for some strange reason, I tore right through both

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Read them both in just days. But I don't know why. Weird stuff. Especially the fountainhead -- rape?!

[Telly Savalas]

20. I'm into more high-brow stuff like Jackie Collins.

[Doohickie]

21. I can't respond

Never read any of Ayn Rand's stuff.

[progressoid]

22. Eh - don't care about Ayn

Lots of Repubs are torn because she was an atheist too

[MN ChimpH8R]

23. Rand

Read "Fountainhead," "Anthem" most of "Atlas Shrugged" and some of her other stuff in my early 20s. The romantic (in the artistic sense of the term) spin she put on her half-baked philosophy made it superficially appealing despite the turgid prose. Started thinking through the consequences of said half-baked philosophy and ran screaming in the other direction.

Young Repuke types love her cause they all see themselves as Randian heroes and can't imagine that they will wind up lowly worker bees. Gotta surprise coming for you silly children......:evilgrin:

Dig your moniker, 'toad. :)