[Laneco]

I finally broke down and bought a Kindle this past Christmas. I had always thought they were rather silly things, until a friend let me try hers. I was hooked. Love to down-load a book for a long plane ride. On my trip back from Alaska this week, I down-loaded a book that has been very well recommended here on the Pelican site. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I've never read anything of hers, and other than Pelican recommendations, had never seen even a review.

I read a couple of books a week. Easy fodder, more of an escape than something truly worth reading. Like potato chips, I enjoy them but none are memorable nor even particularly worth sharing. This book is something else entirely. Ayn Rand can write. Really write. Not the hog-wash that passes for literary success now, nor the pathetic drivel churned out by by what seems to be people simply trying to impress other people with their grasp of the thesaurus, but real writing. The kind that takes to a place so graphically painted with the text that you can touch it in your minds eye and full of characters that you grow to know as intimately as you know yourself.

Just wanted to thank you guys for the recommendation!

angela