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To: haqihana who wrote (24771)	7/18/2000 12:48:48 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Maybe the writing isn't that great, but that was the right book at the right time. There was a socialist juggernaut on the march with hardly anyone standing up to it. Atlas Shrugged filled a void on the right.

To: haqihana who wrote (24771)	7/18/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The story line is interesting, but in itself lurid. Her treatment of normal businessmen is terribly unfair; her postulate that the heroic inventors, engineers, and entrepeneurs built the world, as if there were no reciprocal need for those who actually execute the work,is insulting to the mass of mankind; the characterizations are ludicrous and resemble comic book characters; the interspersed attempts at poetry and philosophy are callow; the dialogue is stilted; and the writing is execrable. I could barely slog through "Atlas Shrugged", read "Anthem" and a bunch of her essay collections, and did not subject myself to any other fiction........