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Wednesday, October 5 - 11:00amSanction this postReply
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I noticed something very interesting when I went to Amazon.com today. 

Big news.... Leonard Peikoff apparently co-wrote The Fountainhead.  LOLOLOLOLOL 

The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff





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Wednesday, October 5 - 11:07amSanction this postReply
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He wrote the afterword...



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Wednesday, October 5 - 11:09amSanction this postReply
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I think that's acknowledging the afterword he wrote.

Not that those intro's and retrospectives are worth much.  At least this one wasn't an intro, he has a bad habit of writing like he's speaking to a person who's been an objectivist longer than he has and like they just need a little incentive to buy each new edition of the book.  Which is nice and all but it's annoying when you're picking a book up for the first time and he gives away every plot twist ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK YOU READ.

---LAndon




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Wednesday, October 5 - 11:11amSanction this postReply
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Yes indeed - that one he did for AS was enough to want a necktie party...



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Wednesday, October 5 - 11:21amSanction this postReply
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Yeah I'll put into my context. Atlas was the first Objectivist book I ever read... never had any experience with it at all and here was the plot laid out on page one all twists intact.  Ditto for Anthem, how I was able to plow through and *WAIT* for the plot developments.

---Landon




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Wednesday, October 5 - 1:50pmSanction this postReply
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Isn't it usual for a book's author to be credited with authorship, then with something like "With Forward by So-and-So"?

Amazon seems to be pretty sloppy about this. How about:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett?

This just came up while looking:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Constance%20Garnett&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank/102-9782874-8790558

and I can't resist mentioning what happens when you scroll down a bit:

The Brothers Karamazov by Constance Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Translator).

//;-)

Michael




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