About a week ago, I started reading the Jungle by Upton Sinclair which is about the atrocious working conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry at the turn of the century. Good book, but the entire story leads up to the the finale, in the last chapter: a passionate Socialist rant. Directly, I picked up Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, which was probably the most dramatic change in philosophy and writing style that I could have planned. Both capture the spirit and essence of what MAN is is such different ways, opposite ways. Not to mentions their polar views on capitalist systems. But I didn't plan it; I knew nothing about either novel before I read them.