It is a loooooooong and windy book.
How does it compare to the 900+ pages of Red Storm Rising?
When did you read it and why?
...by an advocate of murdering children. Ayn Rand also absolutely despised President Ronald Reagan. Sure, she spins a fairly good yarn -- albeit very wordy with one-dimensional cartoonish characters (the good guys are always thin, smoke a lot and have sex outside of marriage) -- but since she's a Christ-denying atheist and abortionist, I personally have no use for the woman or her thoughts. A lot of RINOs and liberaltarins seem to wax rhapsodic over her. Guess they aren't pro-life and have no problems with abortion mills.
But it hits the nail on the head when it comes to our current problems.
It is a loooooooong and windy book.
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Agree! Heinlein said it better and shorter: “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.”
And if you start reading it in this day and age it will do nothing else but make you angry—because that world is here now.
Rand's "Anthem" is a shorter book covering many of the same concepts as "Atlas Shrugged" of a dystopian future where individualism has been wiped out by collectivists. Actually, "Anthem" would make a good movie, but I suppose Hollywood would rather make "Transformers 42" instead. Don't want to make any movies that criticize the Regime, even tangentially; look at what happened to Dinesh D'Souza. Make a movie criticizing the Regime, get prosecuted by the Regime.
Much better listening on tape.