OK, I have a question for all youse who said Atlas Shrugged was a good book.
Are you saying the ideas were good?
Her writing was turgid at best but I’ve read pretty much everything she wrote and yes, she was a big time atheist and also cheated on her husband.
The movie Battlefield Earth is great camp, how many different video wipes are possible? I don’t know but they wore the hell out of the middle out and diagonalize wipes.
Here’s a great spoof on the book by Upright Citizen’s Brigade:
http://www.xenutv.com/us/ucb.htm
Southpark spoof:
http://www.xenutv.com/us/mtvawards.htm
Since she asked her husband's permission before sleeping with Nathaniel Branden, I would find it hard to call it "cheating".
Her ideas were brilliant.
It was a great book, and the fact that she was an atheist has nothing to do with it.
Atlas Shrugged (and The Fountainhead, and We the Living, and Anthem] is a book about individualism, and how all of Western society would crumble without individuals taking risk and building their enterprises for their own reasons.
And Atlas Shrugged is also a great cautionary tale of how such a country could slide into socialism by forgetting these basics of human nature.
Atlas Shrugged should be read by every American preferably before they start voting.