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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - 11:00am

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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, 2005 - 11:07am

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He wrote the afterword...

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - 11:09am

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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, 2005 - 11:11am

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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, 2005 - 11:21am

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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, 2005 - 1:50pm

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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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Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 9:47pm

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    So, maybe The New Testament is now going to be "by God, Mathew, Mark, Luke and John (with comments by St. Paul)" ?   :D

    Finally, the 'true authors' (ghost-writers and whoever) will now get their due?

    Amazon: what hath thou wrought?

LLAP
J:D