With whom?

My wife, a skilled orator and actress, reads aloud, for me privately. And sometimes for the children when they want a story.

It really is a beautiful novel though, philosophy aside.

As long as he doesn't move on to Atlas Shrugged....

I don't know that you can separate it from the philosophy, and even if you can I disagree - her writing is awful. I think it appeals to people my age and a little older of above-average intelligence because it tells them they're special and that other people only want to drag them down, and I'm glad it's not a phase I've ever had.

Well, to each their own I guess. I was able to look past the philosophy and enjoy the vivid imagery of the novel.

Her imagery is what really gets me into the book for sure.

my ADD makes reading slower cause i constantly start thinking about other ****. sometimes i will be saying the words im reading in my head but not paying attention to them and actually thinking about something else, then i will have to backtrack and re-read that section to get it.

i generally do like reading though.. but it has to be the right kind of writing. i like a lot of 20th century stuff... hemingway, steinbeck, bukowski, philip k dick, etc.. and i can even **** with some older stuff to a certain extent like a few poe stories and whatnot... but generally speaking i have a harder time with stuff that is really old. even dickens and stuff like that can be a bit boring to me. i remember some of the stuff they made us read in high school was absolute torture to me. beowulf and shakespeare and that kind of ****... can't do it, man.

i did start reading the iliad though and i liked it. especially the part where zeus was telling his woman hera to slow her role like "look bitch, i tell you the things i think you can handle and the rest is for me to worry about." zeus knows how to keep his pimp hand strong.

Ayn Rand did have talent, her prose is good, but I do tend to find her detestable.