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To: Still Thinking
Don’t know what it is about her style, but it seems to have that effect on a lot of people.

With the very first chapter, I got a chill with the gloominess of the setting. And not being a literary-type, I can't figure out how she does it so well either! Her characters also seem to be 2 dimensional. I don't know if it's poor writing (going to get flamed here for that!) or brilliant writing that sets the tone perfectly.
40 posted on 03/07/2009 11:27:36 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall

“Her characters also seem to be 2 dimensional. I don’t know if it’s poor writing (going to get flamed here for that!) or brilliant writing that sets the tone perfectly.”

Perhaps Rand saw her characters as secondary to the setting? Or perhaps she simply fleshed out the characters sufficiently to serve the point she wanted to make?


48 posted on 03/07/2009 11:45:13 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (This is my tagline. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: CottonBall

I read AS about 3 times before I understood that Rand’s books are philosophy books, not entertainment stories. If you approach it from that view point, it’s easier to read.


62 posted on 03/07/2009 3:51:48 PM PST by Clock King (Radical Conservatives, arise!)
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