Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site cdstar.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!wjh12!cdstar!pearson
From: pearson@cdstar.UUCP (Mark Pearson)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Representative Ayn Rand Book(s)
Message-ID: <204@cdstar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:09:45 EST
Article-I.D.: cdstar.204
Posted: Thu Nov 21 12:09:45 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 10:21:33 EST
References: <644@im4u.UUCP>
Organization: Cambridge Digital Systems - Cambridge, MA
Lines: 14
Summary: my thoughts

In article <644@im4u.UUCP>, bradley@im4u.UUCP (David K. Bradley) writes:
> In your opinion which of Ayn Rand's books is most representative of
> her writings?

Depends upon what you want:  
The most complete statement of her philosophy in novel form: Atlas Shrugged.
Less complete statement of philosophy but more "human" novel: Fountainhead.
Let's-get-down-in-the-mud-and-cry-about-life's-crap but not well developed
philosophically: We the Living.
Quick synopsis of her "sense of life" (her term): Anthem.

When I decide I need a Rand ReRead, I usually go for Fountainhead or
Atlas, depending on how close-to-the-real-world human I want to be
(Fountainhead being closer).