5 Stupid things about Ayn Rand

[Rev. Rye]

I'll bite. Though I've not read her work.

1. Poor writer? Wouldn't know, I do hear atlas shrugged ain't that great, but that seems to me to be irrelevent. Lets attack the idea's, not the exact way they were written.

About her being a poor writer - Rand's magnus opus a humongous novel of over a thousand pages - a novel full of long moralizing speeches (the longest of which runes for more than a hundred pages or 3 hours) and proses with overt author-appeal. She has loads upon loads of characters each of whom have a separate and clearly-laid out back-story and still end up falling in one camp of the other. And her book has consistently ranked among the most widely read. If that doesn't show her good writing skills, I don't know what will.

For what it's worth, I've found that The Fountainhead is far less stupid, and more plot-oriented. Granted, it still has its moments of author filibusters and dick moves by major characters, but it's more readable.