unklelemmy

What's awful about Anthem? You objected to her individualism, or the writing or to all her books?

The main thing I disliked about Anthem was how it was written. Very heavy handed and cliched. Completely unrealistic. Plus the entire book was nothing more than a poorly constructed straw man argument for objectivism. I havent read her other books so cant comment on them.

This post seems so phony to me, the misspelled words (new for knew, etc.) Why would someone come on here to dis 'Anthem' knowing that most of us love Ayn Rand's works? And he has trouble getting people to read Anthem? I know people who don't like Ayn Rand at all who still respond to Anthem.

I promise you this isn't phony. I apologize about the typos/misspellings but I am 100% serious. Anthem is awful.

Welcome aboard. What did you do professionally other than cruise the halls looking for heterosexual women?

Adam

I wasnt cruising the halls looking for heterosexual women. I was cruising an ice cream store. I also like reading, discussing religion and politics, watching sports a/o reality television, being a smart ass in general, and drinking tea and beer. Mainly being a smart ass though.

This post seems so phony to me, the misspelled words (new for knew, etc.) Why would someone come on here to dis 'Anthem' knowing that most of us love Ayn Rand's works? And he has trouble getting people to read Anthem? I know people who don't like Ayn Rand at all who still respond to Anthem.

I promise you this isn't phony. I apologize about the typos/misspellings but I am 100% serious. Anthem is awful.

In fact it was the first time I read any Ayn Rand. I had heard of her and new she was an author but didn't know much else. A coworker of mine, Jen, told me she just read a book that I had to read too. She (my co-worker, not Ayn) was cute, intelligent and funny and I had a huge crush on her so I did. Alas she turned out to be a lesbian but that is a story for another day. Anyway, one day at work she came up to me and said she read a book that was so awful that I just had to read it. I figured no way could it be as bad as she was saying and it was very short so I figured what the heck and read the whole thing that night. Well, needless to say it was awfull beyond my dreams. I have often told other people of this horrible book and how they need to read it too but no one will. I guess only Jen and I shared the same interest in awful works of fiction. Alas, if only she was staright....

PS-I started reading it again on the forum and yep-its as bad as I remember!

Thank you for posting it and have a great day!