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Kindle eBook edition of Ayn Rand's novel Anthem.
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Ayn Rand's Anthem is a short dystopic novel about a man who escapes a society from which all individuality has been squeezed. Its allegory is crudely transparent, and the ideas have lost their political urgency. (The book was published in 1938, a decade before Orwell's 1984.) But Anthem provides a good introduction to Rand's philosophy of "objectivism," which is built on individuality, freedom, and reason. Paul Meier is an excellent choice for the novel's first-person narrator--he manages to maintain an urgency in his voice, pleading but never whining, mirroring the main character's struggle against his totalitarian world.
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Kindle eBook edition of Ayn Rand's novel Anthem.
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Also available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1250

Ayn Rand's Anthem is a short dystopic novel about a man who escapes a society from which all individuality has been squeezed. Its allegory is crudely transparent, and the ideas have lost their political urgency. (The book was published in 1938, a decade before Orwell's 1984.) But Anthem provides a good introduction to Rand's philosophy of "objectivism," which is built on individuality, freedom, and reason. Paul Meier is an excellent choice for the novel's first-person narrator--he manages to maintain an urgency in his voice, pleading but never whining, mirroring the main character's struggle against his totalitarian world.

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Jul 19, 2021
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Oisterboy
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This is our library.

Nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
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wehaveadeal
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Yuck. Even free, this isn't a deal.
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Quote from wehaveadeal :
Yuck. Even free, this isn't a deal.
Is there something I am missing about the author or the book?
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HelloClemFandango
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Ayn Rand wrote fan letters to a serial murderer. Google it.
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FuschiaChicken4048
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Great book from a controversial author.
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Quote from HelloClemFandango :
Ayn Rand wrote fan letters to a serial murderer. Google it.
Googled it. She called the serial murderer, William Hickman, a "purposeless monster", something particularly vile within her worldview. She dido so at least three times in her journals, as well as a degenerate. That doesn't really sound like she's a fan. Since you brought up the topic out of the blue, maybe you know something new and interesting on the subject? Or maybe it's just a smear against someone you've been trained to despise?

Then again, you can always resort to the tried-and-true "But she took Social Security payments!" (The one she paid into with roughly 12% of her entire life's income).
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it's ok, would take maybe 30 minutes to read and unlikely to warrant a repeat read. It doesn't have compelling characters like Galt, Toohey, Roark, etc. and the first person singular trick isn't strong enough to carry the plot
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Quote from HelloClemFandango :
So you're part of the cult. Not buying your lies. Sad.
Don't know why you guys have to fight over Ayn Rand on a deals website. A free book is a deal. Anthem is an easy little read and will be thought provoking for some whether you agree with Rand's philosophy or not.
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Even free, this is not a deal because it will cost time to read this horrible drivel. Ayn Rand's views are awful, inconsistent, and mean-spirited. There are millions of much better things to "spend" your time on.
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Quote from BrightCrib972 :
Don't know why you guys have to fight over Ayn Rand on a deals website. A free book is a deal. Anthem is an easy little read and will be thought provoking for some whether you agree with Rand's philosophy or not.
I dunno man, if I saw an Ann Coulter book for free on here, the value comes from shitting on it.
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Quote from HelloClemFandango :
Ayn Rand wrote fan letters to a serial murderer. Google it.
Umm, no, she actually did not. First, she never wrote Hickman a letter, PERIOD, of any kind. Second, she wrote in a journal, where she considered some of his traits and some of the ugly reaction of the society of the time to certain things about him. She did not idolize him in any fashion, and in fact called him a monster, a degenerate, and broke down several other facets of him that were ugly and awful. While doing so, she also noted certain positive elements to him (specifically his desire to make his own choices, regardless of what others think), and certain tragic elements to his story (he was poor, had a terrible upbringing, etc), and that the general public consensus of hate wasn't about the genuinely horrific things about him, but those that weren't.

There is no question, even in Rand's journals, that she saw him as a monster. The claim that she wrote him letters is 100% false, and that she "idolized" him is also completely false. She studied him from the perspective of a writer trying to understand and encapsulate a broader picture than what most people saw. Any good writer does this in everything they do.
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Quote from Dr.PhilosoRaptor :
Even free, this is not a deal because it will cost time to read this horrible drivel. Ayn Rand's views are awful, inconsistent, and mean-spirited. There are millions of much better things to "spend" your time on.
Actually, this is a terrific book, in the vein of 1984, only written a decade earlier.

Rand's views were that human beings are capable of great good when they're guided by a rational code of morality that respects the rights of all individuals to their own lives. And while I agree that some of her rhetoric can sound "mean spirited", I also understand where it comes from: She lived through the Bolshevik Revolution and saw, first hand, how Communism wrecked the lives of millions of people, inculcating a sense of fear and hopelessness even while it spread poverty, oppression, and death. When she came to the US, and saw people who genuinely believed Communism was "a noble experiment", she was horrified, and feared that the US would make the same terrible mistake as the Russians did and birth another nightmare like the Soviet Union.
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Quote from BrightCrib972 :
Don't know why you guys have to fight over Ayn Rand on a deals website. A free book is a deal. Anthem is an easy little read and will be thought provoking for some whether you agree with Rand's philosophy or not.
How dare you bring reason into this conversation?! FEED THE HATE! Big Grin
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Quote from HelloClemFandango :
So you're part of the cult. Not buying your lies. Sad.
What lies? I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, but am familiar with this particular attack on her, and it is clearly an unfair smear to anyone who reads beyond a few unfairly cherry-picked quotes. And *no one* suggests she wrote fan letters to him, so if anyone's lying, it's you.

There are plenty of real things to criticize about Rand and Objectivism. Why are you making some up?
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