. . . huh. How utterly bizarre. I've known lots of people who read Rand, but none of them have ever been quite that weird.
I, for the record, wear leather shoes and aspire to own a leather jacket (once I drop two more dress sizes - I'm mostly there!). I don't wear fur, but I would if I lived somewhere cold enough to require that level of warmth. And I was a vegetarian for about fourteen months, but that was mostly because I was keeping more kosher then than I do now.
I actually would recommend Rand's less ranty books; she's not a fantastic written stylist, but she has a real gift for dramatic scenes. (Just thinking about the end of
Atlas Shrugged gives me the willies.) You just kind of have to ignore her posturing. Of course, if you can't, then you definitely should never, ever read her. She postures a lot.
