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Getting famous and having a cult following isn't always the best thing for an author. Not for their works. Rand wrote one good book [0]. Actually really got to
by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Getting famous and having a cult following isn't always the best thing
for an author. Not for their works. Rand wrote one good book
[0]. Actually really got to me. Probably not one you think of. "We
The Living", a pretty bleak account of collectivisation and the exodus
from communism. A shocking, semi-autobiographical account of watching
the world you love and know torn up. I think it might be more apropos
Americans today than any of the "objectivism" stuff. All her later
work I read in my 30s seemed lacking. But that first one really had an
impact, not quite Solzhenitsyn or Kafka, but a hard hit with a similar
interior. That book really defines her I think.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_The_Living https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_The_Living