[Favorite TV shows]

Sherlock

Mythbusters

Antiques Roadshow

Indiana Week In Review

The McLaughlin Group

["Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket"]

I just read "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets" by Jack Finney for school. Anyone else read it?

[light hearted / humorous book recommendations]

"The Open Window," a short story by Saki, is great.

[Favorite Non-Ayn Rand Novel?]

Another Mockingbird fan!

I would say my top books are To Kill A Mockingbird, Sherlock Holmes, Crime and Punishment and the Dante Club. My favorite authors are Doestovsky, Rand, Grisham and Clancy

[Favorite Non-Ayn Rand Novel?]

To Kill A Mockingbird. That's simply my favorite book.

[The Giving Tree]

That book was disturbing to me before I was an Objectivist. I do enjoy his poetry books, though.

I think an interesting book to put into Objectivist thought would be my favorite picture book, The Story of Ferdinand. I see it as a story of a young animal version of Howard Roark, going against everything that he's expected to do to follow his own conscience.

[Favorite Atlas Shrugged Couple]

I'd vote for Eddie and Cheryl too. That would have been great.

["OF" in Atlas Shrugged]

Nothing beats Eddie telling James: "Don't let's discuss this."

There's a phrase you never hear

I love this line.

[Favorite Atlas Shrugged Couple]

What do you mean, Eddie and Dagny isn't a choice? I liked Eddie's love for Dagny best. It's a sad part of the book. Eddie always was on the outside looking in.

[Last Question: Cleopatra]

Cleopatra is generally considered to be Greek, as that was her family's line. An interesting fact: She was the first of the Ptolemies to bother learning Egyptian, the language of her subjects.

[The Karate Kid]

I liked the new movie, but I'm biased as I practice Kung Fu.

[Who Was The Greatest Military Leader Of All Time?]

In the absence of William Tecumseh Sherman and Georgi Zhukov, I vote Julius Caesar.

[What are you listening at the moment?]

"Numb" by Linkin Park.