Reply #16: Its nice fiction that [View All]

I enjoyed reading that thick tome, but rather prefer the fountainhead
for its brevity, and more engaging plotline. When i was a younger
reagan supporter, i read the book and agreed with her principals.

Now, as an wiser democratic libertarian, I still like her book, not
as a model for anything, but that someone was inspired with their
frustration at social decay, and set out to create utopian visions.

I respect anyone who wishes for a utopia, and can understand how an
immigrant woman from eastern europe, would pen her wish in to a
tome.

There are enlightened people in this world, who i image as the real
"john gault".. not some industrialist wet dream of an eastern
european women from bad times.... but total wisdom and awakening in
a human life. Gladly, such folks are still about giving counsel in
the real world, and not holed up in some far away cloister.

I think of her novel as a theravada buddhist novel, about discovering
the jewel of enlightenment in a remote mountain hideaway. There,
like in tibet, she journeys and travels to finally meet her guru,
and in this sense, i find the novel sincere.

Too bad she's dead. I'd love to read "Atlas Returned", when the
guru comes back and changes the world... the mahayana sequal.