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Originally Posted by Gnuf Said
I just love how Rand killed an entire trainload of people in the book and found a way to blame each and every one of them for their own deaths.
There, you have just read the whole book.
Rand was really pissed off at somebody.
Notice how shallow the characters are. Notice the fantastic coincidence that hundreds of people who all had the same shallow outlook on life were on the same train together with not one innocent soul. "There was not a man aboard who did not share one or more of their ideas"! Notice how Rand sentences them all to death for committing no crime other than believing in the wrong idea.
The book is stupid. And boring.
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So it may have been overly cruel...But isn't Rand's basic idea pretty solid, That people should be allowed to achieve greatness, without the fetters of society to weigh them down on their quest? That seems like the essence of the American dream to me.