Junior English teacher assigned an Ayn Rand book.

[Broletariat]

Oh dear :/

[The Man]

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[JazzRemington]

I saw two Rand books at the local Goodwill...along with a plethora of religious books.

I wonder sometimes...

[Red Commissar]

I had to read Anthem back in high school. Luckily the student from the previous year scrawled amusing comments all over it.

[GPDP]

I had to read Anthem back in high school. Luckily the student from the previous year scrawled amusing comments all over it.

I had a choice of Anthem, The Giver, and Animal Farm (part of the dystopian-societies-that-makes-American-society-look-good-in-comparison curriculum, otherwise known as anti-communist propaganda). I had already read The Giver the year before, so I scratched it out. I ended up going with Anthem because I thought it sounded cooler than Animal Farm.

On hindsight, I was an idiot back then.

[Tablo]

I like Animal Farm. :)

[Aurorus Ruber]

Yeah, and it's way shorter than pretty much anything Ayn Rand writes, certainly an advantage for books you don't want to read anyway.

[Jack]

Sparksnotes, comrade.

[ChrisK]

Okay, here be the summary of anthem. Theres some dude, he's special unlike all the sheeple. He meets a chick. They run away and he smart so they can no catch him. Yay.

[El Chuncho]

Okay, here be the summary of anthem. Theres some dude, he's special unlike all the sheeple. He meets a chick. They run away and he smart so they can no catch him. Yay.

WOW, that is actually a very accurate summary, I am impressed.

And I feel sorry for anyone who HAS to read any of the ''works'' by Ayn Rand.

[ChrisK]

I've read Anthem and The Fountainhead. Don't read them.

[Omsk]

I am so glad i live in the good old post-socialist motherland.

I sure am happy I will never have to read such garbage.

[graymouser]

Ugh. Hopefully it's just Anthem, which is awful but short. I had to read that in high school and Fountainhead in college - all of which is time I'm never getting back.

[Omsk]

What is interesting about these books in the amount of attention they think they caused,especially in socialist countries.

Believe me,back in the socialist motherlannnd,nobody was interested in that garbage.

[GPDP]

It just strikes me how masturbatory these works are, is all. Ayn Rand's novels are nothing but badly-written propaganda for her own shitty philosophy, full of anti-communist strawmen and Mary Sue characters that have no flaws and always exemplify the perfect entrepreneur.

I still remember, unfortunately, one scene in Anthem where the main character shows off his invention to his peers (who you could tell were commies because the word "I" was striken from the vocabulary, so everyone called themselves "we"), and they tell him it must be destroyed because it makes things easier for people, and people only live to toil.

Yeah, I'm sure that was the philosophy back in Soviet Russia, shitty as it may have been at the time. :rolleyes:

[eyedrop]

I'd never heard of Ayn Rand, before I came to this site and saw how obsessed it was with it. And Laissez Fair (or however you spell that shitty word) trolls weren't all over the internet either.

[Red Commissar]

It just strikes me how masturbatory these works are, is all. Ayn Rand's novels are nothing but badly-written propaganda for her own shitty philosophy, full of anti-communist strawmen and Mary Sue characters that have no flaws and always exemplify the perfect entrepreneur.

I still remember, unfortunately, one scene in Anthem where the main character shows off his invention to his peers (who you could tell were commies because the word "I" was striken from the vocabulary, so everyone called themselves "we"), and they tell him it must be destroyed because it makes things easier for people, and people only live to toil.

Yeah, I'm sure that was the philosophy back in Soviet Russia, shitty as it may have been at the time. :rolleyes:

rabble rabble collectivists rabble rabble

Only saving grace was Anthem was short like Greymouser said. I don't know what I would've done if the teacher was a total randroid and involved readings from Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged :laugh:

[Robespierre Richard]

I'd never heard of Ayn Rand, before I came to this site and saw how obsessed it was with it. And Laissez Fair (or however you spell that shitty word) trolls weren't all over the internet either.

Yeah internet libertarians are a more post-Bush Reelection trend.

[Il Medico]

I had an English professor assign Glenn Beck as required reading once. I walked out when he said that and switched my class.

[Sir Comradical]

Are Ayn Rand's books any good? Can they be appreciated purely for their literary qualities?

Obviously I'd rather read 'Grapes of Wrath'.

[Sir Comradical]

I had an English professor assign Glenn Beck as required reading once. I walked out when he said that and switched my class.

Your English teacher should be shot.

[El Chuncho]

I've read Anthem and The Fountainhead. Don't read them.

If you need a shoulder to cry on, I am here for you. :D

[El Chuncho]

Are Ayn Rand's books any good? Can they be appreciated purely for their literary qualities?


No and no. :crying: They are painful in any way you approach them.