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To: nickcarraway

Rand’s writing (fiction) was so ponderous and silly, I couldn’t care less what her politics were.


15 posted on 06/20/2013 1:02:51 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

tl:dr

Herp derp...


18 posted on 06/20/2013 1:05:21 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Trailerpark Badass: "Rand’s writing (fiction) was so ponderous and silly, I couldn’t care less what her politics were."

That is an astonishingly silly comment, FRiend.
You need to remember that there once was a time, no so very long ago, when many people made the effort to have coherent, cogent ideas which took more than a few words to express.

These days we all (including me) think and write in abbreviated bullet-points, hoping to cram the most salient thoughts into the fewest words possible.

Ayn Rand came from a different school.
Remember, she was first and foremost Russian, and so we don't compare her to Tom Clancy's fiction, but rather to other Russians -- like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky or Pasternak.
Second, she was born Jewish, which could explain her lack of interest in Christian doctrines.
Third, she escaped Soviet Communism in 1925 (age 20), and for the rest of her life was very sensitive to the language and thought processes of socialists in America.

In her books, those people were always the antagonists, against whom her heroes struggled mightily and... well, you'll have to read them... ;-)

55 posted on 06/20/2013 1:36:53 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I actually enjoyed her novels.


101 posted on 06/20/2013 3:18:48 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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