Really? And you base this ass plucked opinion on what? Usually I find the converse true from those Tea Partiers I've spoken to. Many have read little summer fluff books like The 1000 year leap, Atlas Shrugged, Road to Serfdom, The Real George Washington... lots of books off of Glenn Beck's reading list.I doubt most TP folks are big readers.
Generally speaking, of course.
Of course, they don't read much. Maybe some bodice rippers in between watching Inside Edition, TMZ and Judge Joe Brown. It's how they stay so informed about legislation, policy, politics and current news events.
All of Rand's work is shit from a literary perspective. Care to read some proof?
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20070915RAND_nyt_atlasreview.pdf
Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign - TIME
Whittaker Chambers -- Big Sister is Watching You
Her characters are wooden, her plots are ridiculous, and her writing is overly dramatic (although it still manages to be fucking dull...). Perhaps, if her writing was better, I wouldn't despise Rand and her ilk so much. I think its the fact that the books are so bad, combined with the fact that people just like them because they provide an intellectualization for unchecked greed and amorality.
And here I thought her work provided a guideline for self reliance, resistance to idealogues and the nobility of the human striving for something better.
The definition of art is that it causes a second creation in the audience after the first creation by the artist.
Rand obviously create very different things in each of us. Does this make her work art?