Oh, no. Not a NEW book from Ayn Rand.

[WinstonSmith4740]

Now we'll have to hear about her genius again from the rethugs. I do like the "patron saint of non-tippers" comment, though.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/new-lost-ayn-rand-novel-will-bring-her-crimes-against-literature-to-new-generation-of-jerks/

[yeoman6987]

1. Right before Christmas...ugh!

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. well...same as it ever was...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Cleita]

3. Also, this by author John Rogers:

“(t)here are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

[hifiguy]

5. The brilliance and accuracy of

that quote is impossible to overstate.

[MANative]

12. Best. Assessment. Ever. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

4. Ayn Rand. Shes stunk more as a person than she does as a corpse.

It's usually the other way around.

[hifiguy]

6. Rand's "work" cannot be called writing.

It s barely typing.

[Wolf Frankula]

7. My Cousin Gary works for a publisher

He says he would not publish Ayn Rand's works. Those are not novels, those are tracts. We do not publish tracts. Rand could not create believable characters, situations, or dialog. Her characters do not talk to each other, they make speeches. And the speeches are boring and nonsensical. Those are his words

Wolf

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Maybe, just maybe...

this one is so bad it'll kill what reputation she has.

(At least one can hope...)

[baldguy]

9. Taking lessons from L Ron Hubbard?

[shenmue]

10. Eeew

Just eew. I tried to read "Atlas Shrugged" back in college. I gave up maybe 1/5 of the way through. Completely incomprehensible.

[hifiguy]

13. I found it all too comprehensible.

I got to the "tunnel" scene and did a Dorothy Parker and threw it aside with great force. The most morally horrifying thing I ever had the misfortune to encounter.

It is no wonder she held a serial killer/cannibal to be the perfect embodiment if her "philosophy."

Nietzsche misdigested by a fifth-rate mind.

[m-lekktor]

11. She DESPISED religion, I can't believe

wingnuts love her so much. Their adoration of unfettered capitalism must trump everything else.

[hifiguy]

14. You have hit the nail

squarely on the head. They will all be billionaires. In their tiny minds and nowhere else.

[NobodyHere]

15. ...

[Recursion]

16. To the meme-generator!

[UglyGreed]

17. Patton Oswalt knows how to handle

Ayn Rand groupies

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/02/patton-oswalt-owns-a-would-be-conservative-troll-on-twitter-take-ayn-rands-dck-out-of-your-mouth/