> 
> I started reading "Atlas Shrugged" a few weeks ago, and just couldn't
> bring myself to finish it. It is so badly written that I am not going to waste
>  any more time on.
> 
> The concepts that Rand tries so heroically to convey in her novel should
> have been left to her mentor, Nietzsche.
Sayeth Miss Rand after reading Nietzche's "The Birth of Tragedy:
He is "statedly anti-reason.  He said that reason is an inferior faculty,
that drunken-orgy emotions were supereior.  That finished him as a
spiritual ally."  (from the biography by Barbara Branden,  "The Passion of
Ayn Rand" 
I found "Atlas Shrugged" to be very ingaging, and have taken many valuable
lessons from her philosophy, as well as some that are best unlearned.  I
haven't read any Nietzche, but would like to-- I dig drunken-orgies.  ;->
Exovivo!
Michael Bowling
"I am, therefore I Jam."