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...best, and the results are quite bizarre. Though John Q. Internet has kept The Great Gatsby and The Sound and the Fury in the top 50, he's also added Starship Troopers and several works by Stephen King. Four works in the top ten are by Ayn Rand. Number one, Atlas Shrugged, has received many more votes than the first non-Rand entry, Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Clearly, this suggests not that Ayn Rand is at the forefront of America's literary tastes, but rather that a lot of Objectivists have been surfing...
...PAGING AYN RAND...
...Fountainhead, Ayn Rand...
...Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand...
...Bellenson and Sasson are not good examples. Check out the Website of software billionaire Paul Allen if you want a taste.) Inside this Beltway some grownups in their 20s and 30s are still obsessed with Captain Kirk. If they have any political interest, it's a lingering passion for Ayn Rand. And this Beltway's spectacular success keeps it, and them, every bit as isolated from the rest of the country as the Beltway at the other end of Highway 50. Neither Beltway has a monopoly on virtue. Each could be improved by knowing a bit more about the other...