Ayn Rand
Magellan's Log:
Best English Language Books of the 20th Century
Not many readers can resist checking these out. But there is something strange here.
You might vehemently disagree with:
Modern Library Best 20 th. Century English Novels
then just to compare you look at:
Modern Library 100 Best 20 th. Century English Novels: Readers’ Choices
What is going on here?
1: The Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
6: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
22: Anthem by Ayn Rand
33: We the living by Ayn Rand
Conclusion: this is a joke; then: this is American; then: why do they do reader's choice which is more a demonstration they haven't read much.
Not having read Rand it was apparent pretty quick she was very popular in the States, her books still selling 100,000 a year.
Wiki: Ayn Rand
The internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ayn Rand
The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult by Murray N. Rothbard
By the time you have read these and maybe
Jenny Turner's LRB review of Ayn Rand by Jeff Britting
the final conclusion is you don't really need to read any of Rand's novels but are still puzzled by why so many Americans do (until, that is, you read this):
Death at the gazebo : Conservativism In Extremis at Hillsdale College
which brings in Rand.
posted by Adfero Affero @ 11:31 AM
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