The Fountainhead was great when I was in high school. As for the Left Behind series, I have not read them, but I know a religious scholar who wrote about the "wars of religion" in the States, and his description of the literalism is pretty frightening.
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> I actually have read Atlas Shrugged (well, most of it - I may have
> skimmed a couple of hundred pages here and there). I'm pretty certain
> I'll never read anything *else* by Ayn Rand, though.
>
> I can't absolutely rule out ever reading any of the "Left Behind"
> series*, but I think I should probably just admit to myself that I'll
> never read Proust in the original French.
>
> Dominic
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> * for "research" purposes, although I can't at present imagine what
> sort of research that might be.
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