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by Ayn Rand

Tolle Lege!. rated it

9 years ago

text For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

I usually don't review comic books but I'll make an exception for this book. There is no grey in her world, and this book read like a comic book. The real world is such that you can't have perfect liberty with perfect equality (moreover she doesn't care about anything but the individual so inequali...

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

text For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) (Signet)

I rather sympathize (if not really agree with) a LibraryThing reviewer who gave this a half star and complained this was a cut and paste job. That is true of three-quarters of this book, which consists of excerpts from Rand's novels. Thus my relatively low rating. Her novels certainly should be read...

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sologdin rated it

12 years ago

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Part III of multi-part review series.A greatest hits: introductory essay and selections from the four novels. Will reserve commentary on the novels for those reviews. Introductory essay develops two sets of binaries: Attila/Witch Doctor and Producer/Parasite. The latter is crass unexamined prod...

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