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We the Living
We the Living | Ayn Rand
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The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century-available for the first time in trade paperback. Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel, We the Living, "It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not...The specific events of Kira's life were not mine: her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are." We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman's passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the banners and slogans.
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ravenlee
ravenlee
We the Living | Ayn Rand
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Bailedbailed

After two months of intermittent slogging I give up. I‘m not enjoying anything about this, and I can‘t care about the main character at all. How can you care about someone who cares about nothing?

My MIL likes this book. I have to wonder why.

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ravenlee
ravenlee
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I already want to kick Victor in the balls.

Admittedly, I don‘t think much of Kira yet, either. I hope this picks up soon.

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LeahBergen
LeahBergen
We the Living | Ayn Rand
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I read this in the '80s when I was young and impressionable and loved it. This paperback was an old and ugly hand-me-down even then and I can't quite figure out what nostalgic part of me has kept it all these years. 🤔 Has anyone else read it?
#RockinMay

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Texreader Yes but I loved all her books back in the day. I was an "objectivist" for so long. Took me a long time to learn the world really wasn't just black and white. But what an amazing writer. I still respect the heck out of this woman. 8y
LeahBergen @Texreader It's the only thing I've read by her. 8y
Reagan Loved this book when I read it, it was years ago though. 8y
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Hobbinol Too bad she's such a fascist. I'd boil that one down to pulp fiction. 8y
merelybookish I'm impressed you avoided The Fountainhead! 8y
LeahBergen @Reagan-reads I hardly remember it (and suspect that much of it went over my head!). 8y
LeahBergen @merelybookish I guess I wasn't all THAT impressionable. 😉 8y
LeahBergen @Hobbinol I'll dismember it and make you something crafty out of it. 😂 8y
merelybookish @LeahBergen Good for you! I read it on th advice of Sassy magazine (along with Kafkas Metamorphosis and Austen's Emma.) I was very impressionable! 😉 8y
LeahBergen @merelybookish That insidious Sassy magazine! 😂 8y
Cinfhen Have not read it but I did read Sassy Magazine 😬😉😂 8y
Sweettartlaura I haven't read this one, but I have read a couple. And I agree with @Texreader - she's compelling. So is JK Rowling ... And I haven't joined a Quidditch league😜. I never understand why reading her means taking on her entire mindset to so many people. So with Rand, I take the good, let it sink in, & then read something else 📚 8y
LeahBergen @Sweettartlaura So true - and I LOVE the Quidditch analogy. 😂😂 8y
JazzFeathers That's definitely a late 1970s cover 😅 8y
Texreader @Sweettartlaura I think it's like @LeahBergen said, I read her at an impressionable age. But her books started a love of philosophy, logic and economics I still have today. Her books had depth in so many areas that I've never seen since from another author. 8y
tricours I like Rand! I've read this one translated into Russian 🤓 8y
Suet624 I'm with @hobbinol. A horrible woman. And Paul Ryan's best friend. 8y
DivineDiana @merelybookish Sassy! ❤️️ 8y
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Chrisalynn
Chrisalynn
We the Living | Ayn Rand
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She is my current literary obsession

LeahBergen I read this exact paperback years ago! 8y
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Lilitherat
Lilitherat
We the Living | Ayn Rand
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Latest book haul from Riga! Especially happy with We The Living as I was searching for another Ayn Rand book after reading Anthem this summer. Also very curious about Puppet Maker, about a Latvian born doctor living in London who is in search of what happened to his father in Siberia in 1941 during the Soviet occupation. The clue to this mystery lies in a wooden puppet...

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