[CreekerFreeper]

1. The Bible

2. The Art of War

3. The Wealth of Nations

4. Common Sense

5. Plato's Republic

6. Any Text by Milton Friedman

7. Any Text by Forrest MacDonald

8. Any Test by Ludwig von Mises

9. God and Man at Yale

10. Any Text by Ayn Rand

[Burkeman1]

Hmmmm- I tried to read "Atlas Shrugged" about a year ago on recommandation from a friend. I found it highly stylistic and polemic. What made me not like it was that she has the same style of leftist preachy writers. It is unbelievable. Her heros are always cookie cutter and the situations are always so staged.

I guess I never got her because I read her when I was already an avowed anti ideologue and a conservative and not a "libertarian". But regardless of that- one has to plow through her books like one does an L. Ron. Hubbard novel. She is an atrocious writer in the 1930's Stalinist mode- but what she has to say has more truth than most.