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To: Taro who wrote (462043)	3/8/2009 6:42:29 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575417

That's not really true. Mark Twain grabbed me at an early age, and is STILL a great read. Because he was a great writer. Rand was not.

To: Taro who wrote (462043)	3/8/2009 6:49:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575417

read "The Fountainhead" when I was about 14. Didn't really grab me. Of course not, just my point. It takes a higher level of maturity to 'read' The Fountainhead or any of her works. A good beginning obviously being to watch the movie with Gary Cooper, not to bad in all its tragedy. On the contrary, I reread The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when I was in my early 20s. I found her premise to be utterly ridiculous. I couldn't even begin to understand why I was turned on as a kid. After reading her bio, I now understand why she wrote what she wrote......she emigrated to the US from a communist country.