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  <title><![CDATA[We the Living: 60th Anniversary Edition]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you ever want to acquire a keen appreciation for food, read any story about the USSR. History or fiction, doesn't matter. Mildewed millet and one loaf of bread a month is enough to break anyone!<br/><br/><em>We The Living</em> is an illustration of the loneliness that seems the unavoidable consequence o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48797176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Instantly as visceral as her more popular later work, Rand's first novel set in early 20th-century communist Russia can really stir you up -- that is, if you support her views on individualism and passion for life, which I do.  Like her other novels, the characters are boldly drawn archetypes, stron...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8228278">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the thing: this book is fucking awesome.  I'm a big fan of this theme - the whole &quot;individual vs. the state&quot; story.  I think most of the books I've read in this vein were descended from &quot;1984&quot;, but this is without doubt my favorite execution of the familiar thematic focus....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1075492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book helped clear up some of Rand's religious philosophy.  At one point, the Heroin asks a friend if he believes in God.  When the friend answers no, she says that was the right answer, because if you believe in God then you don't believe in life.  She goes on to explain that when people believ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34787920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29423656">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 10:41:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know its popular among American youth to essentially worship Ayn Rand. My main problems are two fold. Putting aside philosophical differences for a moment, i just think it was bland writing; i didnt feel for the characters, and i found the dialogue unbelievable.<br/><br/>Now, philosophically, i ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29423656">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first foray into Ayn Rand (I have chosen to read her four major works in chronological order).  The pages drip with her horror at the changes wrought by the Russian Revolution, and you cannot blame her for feeling the way she does.  To watch as talented, successful, intelligent people were margin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10179398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1053976">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Erotica at its best. We the Living is about a young lady with a brilliant mind and a ferocious appetite for sex. The book begins with Kira, a hot little harlot who might have been working at a strip joint (if they weren't so damn bourgeois!), as she seeks to find a nightlife for herself in her newly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1053976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16349411">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book. My soul has never been so pained by a novel. Very few books affect me like this one did. I cannot explain other than it was so beautifully horrific. I knew very little about Communism or what the USSR was like. It caused so much anger and frustration in me, but the pain co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16349411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40037983">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you need to check her off your list, this is the book to start with.  It was difficult going in because the dated writing style was awkward for me, but it was worthwhile getting over that hurdle.<br/><br/>Some people come away from Rand thinking, yeah, communism is evil and capitalism is where ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40037983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="996256">
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    <body><![CDATA[While I enjoyed the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged for their unbending optimism in man's potential, Rand's didactic promotion of her philosophical ideals would overshadow the story in numerous places. Anthem was interesting in a 1984, Fahrenheit 451 type of way. Enjoyable.<br/><br/>However, We th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/996256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand's first major work of fiction, written when she was just 25, while she was still too young and inexperienced in language to be a great writer, but too experienced in life to not have something great to say. If the book seems a little deriviative, one should remember that the now well-known ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67598677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand can be exasperating in a lot of her philosophies but at times she does come with some good points such as the U.S.A. should really invest time into developing capitalism and not just letting it run itself.  Well, I guess she was right in THAT point!  Other times she can really irritate me o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41796386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book by Ayn was her first novel and with Ayn being Russian it would make sense that she'd choose this country as the backdrop for her theme which is man against state and the dictatorship of not just Russia but any place that might have this happen to them.  The main female character is made u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67845492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum) wrote her first novel as an unabashed indictment of the monstrous, despotic communism taking hold in Petrograd (St Petersburg) and all of Russia, following the close of the Civil War in the early 1920's. Rand said this was a semi-autobiographical work, &quot;in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74316601">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite having written a number of fictional works, including the classic <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2122.The_Fountainhead" title="The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand">The Fountainhead</a>, Ayn Rand is considered by many to be more of a philosopher than a novelist. It’s true that The Fountainhead is best remembered for the unique viewpoints of its principal characters than for its writing styl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71645254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think what I liked the most about this book was the characterization. For a first book Rand manages to keep her characters very true to themselves. There wasn't a single action by any of them in the book that made me think &quot;no...they wouldn't have done that.&quot; It's not a cheery book, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70316421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really don't know that there is much I can say about this novel that hasn't already been said.  <strong>We The Living</strong> is the most tragic of Ayn Rand's novels and possibly the most under appreciated. <br/><br/>While it is clearly an early effort for her - her use of English is occasionally off and her st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71174999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shorter than Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, We the Living is much less bogged down with Rand's singular philosophy. Although I could not sympathize with the main protagonist until nearly the end of the novel, several of the supporting characters and the insider look at Communism make this book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5961378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scary, scary book stemming from Rand's hatred of socialism. I hate to think that this is the closest thing to an autobiography she ever wrote. All of Ayn Rand's books have had an impact on my life after reading them, but this one affected me the most. I have never had such strong emotions from readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52074696">more...</a>]]></body>
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