Marjorie Suddard wrote: I grew out of the Bee Gees, too, though TBH, they play a he'll of a lot better now for nostalgia's sake than her sycophant-seeking, hypocritical ass still does.
+10 for using sycophant in a hyphenated combo!
I have Tragedy on my jogging playlist. My only concession to the disco era. They were awesome.
Yep, I discovered Ayn Rand when I was about 14 too (tenth grade). While I embraced the idea of personal achievement and uncompromising beliefs, even at that tender age I realized that nothing was as black and white as Rand depicted.
Shoot, when I was in High School I thought Ronald Reagan was awesome.
Funny, the music I listened to in High School is still pretty awesome. The Police, The Cars, Psychedelic Furs, XTC... Adam Ant. Okay, not all of it.
I bet Rand was a checkers person.
I love to read, it's right up there with twirling wrenches in my personal pantheon. I devoured books all through high school (yeah I was and still am a nerd). But I could not get through any of Rand's books to save my life.
That puts her in there with only two other books I could not stand and never finished: Charles Dicken's 'David Copperfield' and James Dickey's 'Alnilam' (which is weird because he did a GREAT job with 'Deliverance').
And yeah I liked 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'. 
Marjorie Suddard wrote: I have, as far as I know, read everything she ever wrote. Her philosophy and writing resonated quite strongly with me at one time in my life. I was 14. I grew out of the Bee Gees, too,
+1 million, and Margie is now exponentially cooler than I had possibly imagined.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: +10 for using sycophant in a hyphenated combo! I have Tragedy on my jogging playlist. My only concession to the disco era. They were awesome.
No kidding- you should work in print media or something!
Ayn Rand is the kind of person that writes 10 pages where 3 sentences would've been more succinct, reasonable, and poetic. In other words, she was a self-masturbatory egomaniac.
Curmudgeon wrote: I love to read, it's right up there with twirling wrenches in my personal pantheon. I devoured books all through high school (yeah I was and still am a nerd). But I could not get through any of Rand's books to save my life. That puts her in there with only two other books I could not stand and never finished: Charles Dicken's 'David Copperfield' and James Dickey's 'Alnilam' (which is weird because he did a GREAT job with 'Deliverance'). And yeah I liked 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'.
but he made the Statue of Liberty disappear...
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