<p>what should i do?</p>
<p>Wax at length about her on the HS Life forum, that’s what :)!</p>
<p>What is it about her that fascinates you? Is it her cynical view of human nature, or her political and economic views?</p>
<p>ALL OF IT. </p>
<p>she sounds crazy. but interesting.</p>
<p>Essay essay essay essay essay. I want to read more philosophical essays. Moar. :).</p>
<p>I was about to say, have you read her essays? We got to analyze them last year, which was cool, but by the end I was a little tired of her lol.</p>
<p>Are you interested by her /horrible/ books? Me too!</p>
<p>I really like her books, they’re interesting, especially Anthem.</p>
<p>just googled her. she does seem a bit daft :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I agree, Ayn Rand is pretty fascinating. But then again, so was Hitler, even though I abhor his views. (evoked Godwin’s law there =p)</p>
<p>^ /thread?</p>
<p>I was so angry when I read Atlas Shrugged. It’s so unrealistic. inspiring? when it is so ridiculously unrealistic, it’s not even inspiring. it’s like those magazines post pictures of the most “idealized” women pictures, who probably got their shape by dieting and staying in the gym 10 hours a day. What’s inspiring about that?! Rand’s “hero” is like that - sickening.</p>
<p>So far I love Atlas Shrugged! I’m only half way through…</p>
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<p>I never cared for Atlas Shrugged. It’s like The Fountainhead, but pulled down by all her failures of thought in later years. The Fountainhead, though… beautiful. </p>
<p>I’ve read most of her essays. I love her style of argumentation. Just the right amount of disdain for her opponents’ views. </p>
<p>However, she was totally lost on sexuality and love, and she tried to foist her hang-ups on everyone else. And, in her later years, as her brain hardened and grew old, she stopped learning and grew petty. </p>
<p>I’d recommend reading Goddess of the Market. It’s a fascinating, fair-minded biography.</p>
<p>I dislike Ayn Rand very much. I’m so glad that I’ve never had to do an assignment on one of her books, I’d spend the entire time trying to refute the principles in it.</p>
<p>haha her essays sound exciting. i don’t really have the patience for fiction. but i like good biographies. thanks for the recommendation. if i went beyond her wikipedia page i would probably go there.</p>
<p>ANTHEM reminded me of The Giver, so I kinda liked it.
She did seem really politically apathetic, and “survival of the fittest”</p>
<p>ayn was smarter and more fierce than any of us though. that’s my impression anyway. we have to respect her for that. </p>
<p>also, omg, her devotion to reason - it’s so admirable. she was only 16 (!) when she went full atheist/objectivist/whatever. I give her props for that. and when you hear her say everything, all her views, followed from this commitment to reason, then you know she was a serious woman.</p>
<p>at the same time i get the sense she had issues from excessive vitality and emotional volatility. if you wanted to criticize her then do it on those grounds, that she was a little crazy, delusional about herself (narcissistic, grandiose?), or whatever; or on the grounds of her becoming intellectually stagnant in her later years (though can we really fault people for getting old?), but not for her ideas. they sound cool and funny.</p>
<p>i kind of wonder how much of the attention she got was due to her being a woman, or how much her being a woman helped or affected her career. her being a woman is one of the most interesting things about her to me. it really helps her iconoclastic image i think.</p>
<p>@enfield, </p>
<p>Off-topic, I know, but I’m fascinated that you never capitalize any of your words. You’re one of the smartest people on this site but you never use proper grammar. I’m completely dumbfounded.</p>
<p>lol I am not one of the smartest people on this site. maybe seventy-fifth percentile. thanks for the compliment though. compliments make me feel nice.</p>
<p>i do know a handful of forumers who i think are intelligent who do not capitalize. so i don’t think it’s really that much of an anomaly. </p>
<p>the short story probably is once i stopped capitalizing it became a burden to capitalize. why did i stop capitalizing? because i was impressionable.</p>