re: #256 Nimed

This always sound a bit pedantic. If you never read Nietzsche and you are of a certain age, it may be exhilarating to expose yourself to a completely different system of morality. Books who do that are pretty rare. Atlas Shrugged is itself heavily inspired by Nietzsche (I would be less kind and call it a ripoff), and much more accessible work.

If by “accessible” you mean stilted, shorn of nuance, and lacking in any glimmer of poetry or inspiration - maybe so.

Nietzsche, even in translation, glows. Rand is ash and embers beside his fire.