r-mode and w-mode

Reading, in a way that precludes me from writing (not because I can't, but because the full-body immersion in someone else's work taints my style). The system is on input and not output. I'm taking advantage of the fact to clear some of the doorstops on my list, which is why I'm finally reading Atlas Shrugged. ...Out of curiosity, how many of you are into Ayn Rand, or at any rate like her novels? Leave me a note. No, I won't unfriend you or attempt to debate you. XD It's purely curiosity. I have interestingly mixed feelings on Rand - that is, separate strands of opinion on her writing, her philosophy and her devotees - that perhaps only vie in complexity with my feelings on Christianity. It's as deserving of an essay as anything else, but the essay would be a long one.

I'll attempt to clear Mervyn Peake after the Rand book if this keeps up, but that plan is provisory. ^^; And I typically don't even include my online reading when I tot up time spent (which is probably why I always think I *should* have slept more than I do), but Manna's Administration series is so counter-normatively long that I can't whitewash those hours from the books. So add four decent-length novels to the count for the last week, as well as the Herbert re-read. ^^;