RE: Obscure Ayn Rand Novel To Be Released
December 7, 2014 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2014 at 9:06 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 7, 2014 at 4:04 am)Mequa Wrote: And yet, Atlas Shrugged is allegedly the second best-selling book in the States, after the Bible. While that says nothing about the truth claims made in either badly-written tome, it does speak for the popularity and mass appeal of both of these fictional morality tales.
HL Mencken Wrote:No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Where'd you get the figure for "second best-selling" in the US, anyway? I'd imagine Lord of the Rings has it beat by a long shot.