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Title: Yuck!
Review: Rand...has created one of the most appallingly simplistic and inadequate philosophies ever. And it's (surprise, surprise) very popular....This novel is overlong in the extreme, full of one-dimensionals, and horribly written. Pure bad with a capital B. BAD.Objectivism (I cringe even dignifying Rand's vision with its proper name) is the purest form of skunking, existentialism's great sin, creating yourself as unique and vital to the world. So even though the two philosophies are often linked (mostly by idiots), they are in direct opposition.If you're looking for literary developments of competent philosophies check out Sartre and Camus. These guys don't pull their punches, and they don't ignore the areas of life that pose problems for their ideologies.To ease up on Rand, she did write a novel I really enjoyed: Anthem. At just over a hundred pages in length, I didn't have time to puke, because she didn't have time to rant, and her constant deployment of first person plural was amusing.
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