Reply #55: When I was about 17 a good friend [View All]

[SheilaT]

of mine got into Ayn Rand's book, and just raved about how wonderful they were and how I should read them. I started one of them, probably Atlas Shrugged, and found it completely stupid, not to mention nearly unreadable. I seem to recall thinking that every single one of the underlying premises that the book was based on were false.

This was more than forty years ago. I got maybe a third of the way into the book before giving it up as a complete waste of my time, not to mention the brain cells that were dying off from reading that crap. As best I recall, Rand encourages monumental selfishness. And for that she's admired?