We haven't been ripping on Ayn Rand enough lately

[Dirty Socialist]

I decided Ayn Rand is a target if mine for now. Let’s see:
Rand got started in writing due to an FDR art program. She died while on Social Security. She spent the in between years biting the hand that fed her. Ingrate supreme.

[Cary]

1. Third rate philosopher

Fourth rate science fiction writer.

[leftieNanner]

2. Cleaning out my garage

I came across my old hard back copy of Atlas Shrugged.

Did I sell it to the used book store? No

Did I donate it to the Library? No

Did I donate it to the Goodwill? No

Did I recycle it? No

Did I throw it in the garbage can with some stinky old fish bones? Why, yes. I did.

[applegrove]

4. I think i did that too.

[applegrove]

3. Ayn, Ayn, she all about me, my, mine

Galt, Galt he is ...


Oh sorry. I thought you said "riffing". My bad

[leftieNanner]

5. Very funny applegrove!

I have to admit that when I first read Atlas Shrugged, maybe in high school, I was really drawn in with her compelling story telling. I thought it was a wonderful book. Then I read it again as an adult and had a completely different take - actually understood her selfish philosophy. I guess Paul Ryan never got past the high school phase.

[applegrove]

6. Yes. Appeals to virgin boys and psychopaths (excessive testosterone cases)

I read part of one of her books as an adult. It is compelling at first but then when you see the big picture, well that is when i threw it out before i had finished it. I think i threw it out. It may have been a library book in which case i definitely put it down, but returned it (them) to the Library. I read some celebrity was reading them. Did not know the history of them. Just that they were famous books. Then i got online years later and realized how damaging they were.

[ChubbyStar]

7. Low rent capitalistc bodice ripping

She was an ugly woman.

[marble falls]

9. So we're reduced to body shaming.

[Hekate]

10. Her psyche was ugly. Her behavior was ugly. Her philosophy was ugly. Not sure if anyone other than

...yourself read the comment as body-shaming.

[ChubbyStar]

14. Thanks

marble falls does not like me much, hence the comment.

[Hekate]

18. Everything I've ever read about Ayn Rand's books has turned me off, including her apparant...

...liking for rough sex, aka bodice ripping.

[marble falls]

8. Its easy to rip the dead, they practically crumble in your hands. Let's rip Paul Ryan, instead ...

He's still ... juicy.

[Ilsa]

11. She did a lot of damage. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Didn't he derive his entire world view from Ayn Rand?

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Ayn f'ing Rand.

That’s all.

I read her works of fiction at an impressionable age and was not impressed.

[hatrack]

13. Re. Atlas Shrugged: "This is not a book to be put down lightly."

"It is to be hurled, with great force."

Dorothy Parker, I think.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

John Rodgers

[Hekate]

19. Those are my two favorite quotes about Atlas Shrugged. And to think Ron Paul admired her enough...

...to name his son Rand. Talk about warped.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I love that quote by Dorothy Parker!

She was such a brilliant wit.

The Rodgers quote is great as well. Ayn Rand is absolute garbage. I tried to get through Atlas Shrugged when I was in my early 20's and it bored me to tears. Terrible writing and horrible characters. I couldn't finish it.

She was a horrible person and a hypocrite of the highest order.

[Tarc]

15. "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life"

The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.

The other, of course, involves orcs.

- John Rogers

[Dirty Socialist]

17. I know some "Christian Libertarians"

I haven’t asked them what they think of her, especially of her view that Christian charity is “a human weakness”.