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Title: Oh, dear.
Review: I wanted so badly to love this book. Really, I did. I adore Ayn Rand's ideas, and I'm more than convinced of the moral rectitude of her mission, but--WHY, OH WHY, did it have to be so BADLY WRITTEN? I've read almost all of these reviews--the ones that proclaim it a new Truth and Light, and the ones that say it's inspired by Satan himself--and my primary issue is that the prose is tortured and unimaginative.By the middle of the book, I was so tired of people saying things "coldly" or "mockingly" I was ready to throw the book across the room. Yes, yes, yes, and Jim Taggarts lines are always "screamed" or "whined." We got the picture by page 40, Ms. Rand.She needed a very good editor, and she undermined her own philosophy by claiming to value only the best of everything and then submitting a work of "art" that is in every way artistically inferior.Too bad.Incidentally, I adored "South Park's" recent take on this book. And agreed.
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