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In reply to the discussion: Has anyone in DU actually read 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)73. I read everything she wrote about 15 years ago
It has a certain internal logic. But then one realizes there is nothing in human nature that would allow the world she claimed she wanted. People will have compassion. We can't make that into a vice, as she wanted to.
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My first big philosophical disagreement with my first GF was over the Fountainhead
Xipe Totec
Aug 2012
#26
Some consider it important to be familiar with literature that influences others - for example
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#6
Several times, actually. Always tried to make sense of those long soliloquys,
kestrel91316
Aug 2012
#5
Don't forget the complete works of Krishnamurti and Balzac's "In Search of the Absolute"!
Walk away
Aug 2012
#60
wow. I read Atlas shrugged. started "fountainhead" but the long speeches did me in
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#22
If I didn't have a job, bills to pay and actual responsibilitites I might think about reading it.
bluestateguy
Aug 2012
#30
When I was a teenager two books I read early alarmed me Atlas Shrugged and Mein Kampf.
gordianot
Aug 2012
#31
When I was 17-18 years old I read all of her fiction. Tried to pick it up not long ago and found it
patrice
Aug 2012
#33
I read it between terms at University, urged by a fellow worker, but quit 20 pages from the end. . .
Journeyman
Aug 2012
#40
Read it a few years ago and don't see why it makes such an impression on people
sammytko
Aug 2012
#44
Read "The Fountainhead" at the prompting of a woman I was crazy about........
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2012
#80
I read the Ms. Magazine review of Ayn Rand years ago. That was enough for me.
McCamy Taylor
Aug 2012
#95
Have read it cover to cover several times and have an autographed copy. n/t
Tansy_Gold
Aug 2012
#108
It's a very difficult book to get through. Not because it's difficult to understand, mind you.
Marr
Aug 2012
#114
Thanks. I'm amazed that so many DUers have read it from cover to cover. Wonder what the %
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#119