Rand's fiction, like her "philosophy" is sophomoric and laughable.

Having suffered through the actual reading of that-- book--(I rarely give up, I read "Gravity's Rainbow" --a book I adore--twice end to end so far, and favorite passages now and again and still brag about it a bit)

I STILL resent the good reading time wasted reading Atlas Shrugged. When I started learning about her "philosophy" I was even more pissed.

I love that this was from Flannery O'Conner in 1960.

Her stories are amazing!

In fact, I think I should revisit her-- it's been a while and I bought a copy of "The Complete Stories"

thought and challenge with a bite--

I love Everything That Rises Must Converge

O' Conner also wrote two brilliant novels, " Wise Blood" and " The Violent Bear It Away."

Flannery O' Conner gone way too soon at age 39. Ayn Rand spilling her nasty bile for way too long.

My copy has the number 3 spelled out; the amazon one lists it as a #, but mine is really old.

http://www.amazon.com/Flannery-OConnor-Wise-Blood-Violent/dp/B000LS92JG/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1403282447&sr=1-5&keywords=three+by+flannery+o%27connor

Never heard that before. Assumed it was protection.

Happy nonetheless to see Rand readers getting schooled.

When someone is "throwing shade" they are indeed bad-mouthing someone, only it is obvious to the audience that the one throwing shade is taking an unwarranted superior attitude!

Urban Dictionary:

throw shade
to talk trash about a friend or aquaintance, to publicly denounce or disrespect. When throwing shade it's immediately obvious to on-lookers that the thrower, and not the throwee, is the bitcy, uncool one
"How does Kimmy keep any friends? Last night at the party all she did was throw shade at people."

I'm just saying that the term "throwing shade" seems to have been misused. "Talking smack" would have worked.

A perhaps overzealous writer trying out skills. So the title is a fail.

On second thought, O'Conner often wasn't out to be pleasant and this was 1960.

and make them beg for salvation.

Just looked in my bookshelf and still have one of her collection of short stories from college, although the cover is missing.

Intelligent, talented woman.

I would have to say my favorite story by her is "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and remember the paper I wrote on it. Great story...highly recommend it if you've never read it.

Now I like her even more...thanks, and rec!