“I thought the characters were great...more like extreme, archetypal representations than real people, but I'm ok with that. It was nice to read a novel where people were actually competent.”
“well, if you can imagine john galt as dick cheney, his selfish thieving lying self is so much more charming in rands story than these guys are in real life. but then, i tend to have a bias towards decent human beings and a bias against lazy parasites who suck the blood out of their workers and then complain when their top heavy creations colapse, leaving them with a slightly crumpled golden parachute on some remote island that does not have an extridiction treaty with the us....”
