Re: The REAL pop 100 -Reply

dm (MAHANTYD@ojp.usdoj.gov)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:30:01 -0400

Matt Kozusko wrote:
> 
> Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> 
> >  You'll also be happy to know that at the moment the top 3
> > are Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Catcher in the Rye by Some
Guy (: and
> > Tolkein's `The Hobbit'. And hurray and hurrah, Dr Seuss has made it
into
> > this one!
> 
> Splendid company, indeed.  Personal fascism and fantasy fiction.
> 

>Catcher in the Rye is about fascism?

To comment on _Atlas Shrugged_ and _Catcher; I'm not sure which is
which, but I've heard rumors that one is an extraordinarily insightful and
well prepared novel, and the other is the precariously oversimplistic, if
not well written, porn credo for "libertarians" and econ majors of the
public choice school. Just hearsay...