Cheryl Cline wrote: > JDHadden@aol.com wrote: > > > > I'm tempted to agree with you, as she was often painful (trans. BORING) to > > read, but she did present some important ideas. Just (try to) read Atlas > > Shrugged or The Fountainhead. It's worth it. > > I've only read Fountainhead, but I didn't find it boring at all. And > she got her point across pretty damn loud and clear. I tack up:And Atlas Shrugged is sheer brilliance just to see her take The Fountainhead and blow it up on a much larger canvas. Howard Roark becoming John Galt. Dominique and Dagny. I read it in Hawaii the summer after I graduated from high school. That's how good it is. Still, I've never felt inclined to genuflect at her, like some do. Boring? I'd never thought of the concepts of love and work and money and worth that intensely before. Maybe 25 or 50 pages on each of those teeny tiny concepts is kind of self indulgent, but, again, the canvas is so large that she's dealing with. And you must always remember that she was born in the worst years of the Soviet era, so if you think she's strident, damn straight, that's how she was able to leave and then overcompensate in the good old U. S. of A. Malcs (still enjoying his newly shaved head. It was Jay Buhner Buzzcut Night at the Dome last Thursday and over 4000 Mariner fans got their heads shaved in exchange to see Randy Johnson pitch for free. A no-brainer, right? Well, I needed a haircut anyway. And if I hadn't done it you just know we would have lost the game. :) )