> they are. But when it comes to reading Rand, I must say I loathed her from > the 3rd page of the Fountainhead onwards. I have plodded through Atlas > Shrugged and Fountainhead (I was 17 - 12th Standard summer break) when Rand > was discovered and have never liked her - everything has been a problem, > from her style to her philosophy. I have remained eternally bewildered about > why she has been so popular. > >
My experience: It was part-ignorance and part-confusion. My reading then comprised random stuff I could scavenge from my relatives and neighbours. And we didn't have a good library around. Atlas Shrugged was one such book. This was the time when there was a lot of debate on reservations and the like, and Rand seemed to have arguments for a merit-based system.For most of my friends, this was the case. My ignorance about caste also contributed to it. I didn't agree with all that she said, but a great part of it, yes. As years went by, I gave her up, call it the process of coming out the well.:) I just realised that I feel queasy debating Rand now, being on the other side now. :)
