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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves hobbits.

— Kung Fu Monkey

For the record, as with all things, I went a third way, and read Illuminatus! instead.

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I suppose the reason that I escaped the effects of Ms. Rand was (a) I read The Fountainhead instead of Atlas Shrugged; (b) I was 17 when I did so; (c) I (re)interpreted her politics as a heavy-handed rant-parable about the dangers of hostility to creativity groupthink, and mass-conformity.

Of course, hostility to creativity and groupthink are the very things that Ms. Rand's followers breed. Oh. Irony. of. Ironies! ;)