Pynchon, Rand, school reading lists

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:23 AM, jd wrote:

> I want to eventually make it through Atlas Shrugged...  actually I'd
> like to read it ASAP and try to enter her essay contest before I
> graduate... but last time I picked it up I got five pages in and
> couldn't stand her murdering of the language.  That was several years
> ago though, so maybe I have matured enough to deal with it since then.

One doesn't read Ayn Rand for her prose style. The strangeness of her  
mind is sufficient enticement.