Who is Henry Galt?

[Redchrome]

http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=418

Looks like Ayn Rand wasn't so terribly original in Atlas Shrugged.

[Friday]

http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=418

Looks like Ayn Rand wasn't so terribly original in Atlas Shrugged.

Wow, that's kind of a bummer.  I don't believe it was a coincidence.  Bad show, Ayn.   

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'm guessing she must have been the first author to have been inspired from book they have read.

[KBCraig]

I'm guessing she must have been the first author to have been inspired from book they have read.

Ya think?

She was definitely arrogant enough to deliberately fail to acknowledge prior influences. Whether or not that was the case here, we can only speculate.

"Big O-ism" is as distinct from "little o-ism", as "Fervent LP-ism" is from "leave me the hell alone-ism".

[Friday]

I'm guessing she must have been the first author to have been inspired from book they have read.

From the looks of it, "inspired" is being too generous.  "Who is John Galt?" is a catchphrase in her novel (not to mention the first sentence).  She lifted it straight out of another libertarian writer's novel.

[Puke]

Wow! Makes the book seem even more crappy to me.