rocketpig on 09 April 2009
I implore you to read Atlas Shrugged. At the very least, you will despise every character. At most, you will come away from it with an interesting take on humanity and its nature. Rand is obnoxious at times but she brings up good points, especially considering her upbringing under a Stalin regime.
I was your age when I first read her work. I fully believed in it. As time wrought that evil called age upon me, I came to realize that she's a sexist bitch and her ideas of "utopia" are just as ineffectual and unrealistic as the left-leaning writings of the time.
Still, it's an interesting exercise in a challenge of your beliefs.
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