Thoughts on Ayn Rand?

What does Veeky Forums think of Atlas Shrugged?

i have heard so much poison shit about her that i am never going to read it.

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>everyone says it's bad therefore it's bad
Ok

I don't know a single intellectual that thinks she's good. So why should I waste my time?

H'es right imo

This is exactly the reason that I did read it

Her entire philosophy is born from her getting BTFO by the Bolsheviks. It's her irrational desperate response to attack the people that traumatised her, when the Bolsheviks took her daddies property and money.

Don't waste your time reading Ayn Rand. I'm serious.
Not only does her writing spout off bad ideas such as that of objectivism, it's also simply just bad writing. One of her shorter works, Anthem, can be summarized as the following:
-"Collectivist" dystopia, a dark age, everyone is assigned roles at a certain age, everyone has god awful names that are random words mixed with numbers such as "Liberty-2358"
-Protagonist accidentally discovers electricity while cutting into a dead frog in a sewer
-Experiments, literally re-invents the light bulb
-Shows it to the high up inventors council, gets shamed, runs off to the woods with lover to start a new life
All in all, it's trash. No single person has been the "Penultimate inventor" responsible for inventing the greatest of great inventions.
Even Thomas Edison's light bulb was based on 40 years worth of ideas before him.
Ayn Rand's reading is good to read, if you're only beginning to really, truly, think for yourself. Many that read Ayn Rand and believe heavily in its philosophy don't expand past Rand.
If you already know how to think for yourself, don't bother with reading her work as it's simply a waste of time.

i'd be pissed too, but im more of a take a shit on your doorstep kind of guy and not a shit talker through books