<p>Oh, frankly I am scared of Ayn Rand on average – in 7th grade, for whatever reason they made us read Anthem, and I recall neither the teacher nor the students liked it – still recall getting a 97% on the test on that book without doing very much studying at all, given the teacher didn’t care much. There’s this amusing little book called Old School by Tobias Wolff, which I was pretty fond of, even though it isn’t exactly your traditional, classic well-written book. Basically, it’s set at a school where all the students are overenthusiastic literature/writing maniacs, and compete in writing competitions for chances to meet famous authors like R. Frost, A. Rand (supposedly bringing her to the school as a guest was oh-so-controversial), and E. Hemingway. The portrayals of all the authors was pretty funny in some ways. Frost was the sort of somewhat proud poet to spit on the more modernist styles of composition, Hemingway portrayed humanity in his version of the most realistic, “human” way possible, Rand was, quite frankly, Rand!!! That is, wrote about only extraordinary human beings and their tales. Overall something I enjoyed, and can be read with a pretty light spirit.</p>