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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Reading advice requested

I'm assuming that most of the H.O.N. bunch has seen the article about Ayn Rand in the Times. I read The Fountainhead in high school, but I never attempted Atlas Shrugged, mainly because I know its philosophical premise and disagree with it, and partly because it's massive. Do you think it's worth slogging through anyway? Have y'all read it?

1 Comment

nuraido said...

I started reading it in college, but never finished it, so I'm admittedly biased. I did read a bunch of secondary stuff when I was writing a background brief on Greenspan for the Nixon Project, and none of it really inspired me to read all 1200 pages.

It's my opinion that if you're a member of the movement, or if you're a grad student, it's important to read the original source (how many self-proclaimed Marxists do you think have never read The Communist Manifesto?) Otherwise, I think that reading applications and critiques from both sides is fine. There's other stuff to read that's much more worth your while, unless you're a budding libertarian, Ms. Wilder =)