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In reply to the discussion: Obama Says Ayn Rand Is For Teens [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)51. To quote Truman Capote
(though about another author), "that's not writing, it is typing."
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I grew up tribal. The whole selfishness of it is a completely evil & alien concept to me
catbyte
Oct 2012
#38
Yeah...Her theory made sense to me for about five minutes -- Then I realized it was bullshit.
whathehell
Oct 2012
#107
I think the joke is that even an idiot who just learned to read knows Atlas Shrugged is terrible /nt
Ash_F
Oct 2012
#131
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and
msanthrope
Oct 2012
#7
I think I saw parts of it, or maybe I'm thinking of the Bill Moyers series
Voice for Peace
Oct 2012
#121
she was a satanist - she may not have been yelling "hail satan" but she lived under his law
leftyohiolib
Oct 2012
#11
You forgot to add a forger, armed robber, child kidnapper, serial murderer promoter
fasttense
Oct 2012
#139
The entirety was an understatement, & about something so emotional. Our prez: 1 classy guy. nt
JudyM
Oct 2012
#77
I prefer Virginia Woolf: "There's no there there" (said about the city
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#111
We hosted a foreign exchange student from Thailand a couple of years ago
central scrutinizer
Oct 2012
#23
I read it at 20 and found it interesting, but quickly realized that it didn't fit with the real
truthisfreedom
Oct 2012
#30
Well said, Mr. President! And all too true. The reason Rand rings a bell with teens....
Moonwalk
Oct 2012
#41
Made it through about a third of "The Fountainhead" before I returned it to the library
NICO9000
Oct 2012
#45
I agree. I was hooked in high school. Quickly recalibrated once I enter the real world. nm
rhett o rick
Oct 2012
#58
I read Fountainhead and didn't get it, don't remember anything about it.
Dont call me Shirley
Oct 2012
#64
Best put down of Rand I've ever heard. And I've read everyone of her books.
David Zephyr
Oct 2012
#73
I never thought ANYONES liquidation in a Stalinist death camp would make the world a better place.
infidel dog
Oct 2012
#80
I read Ayn Rand. Then I read Hemingway and F.Scott Fitzgerald and Salinger
MichiganVote
Oct 2012
#81
Something teenagers read when they are "feeling misunderstood" but should grow out of in adult hood.
AlbertCat
Oct 2012
#97
I think all republicans social/mental development stopped in 9th grade. n/t
Bonhomme Richard
Oct 2012
#104
I loved Atlas Shrugged. I was 20 when I read it. That was 47 years ago....
Speck Tater
Oct 2012
#127
You should have included one of the Paul Ryan Pics with the backwards Cap in your post
JI7
Oct 2012
#133
I love that Obama has pointed out something that any thinking person already knows.
Flipper999
Oct 2012
#149