RE: Obscure Ayn Rand Novel To Be Released
December 7, 2014 at 5:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2014 at 5:44 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 7, 2014 at 5:16 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Very true - though the same can be said of any human economic or political system, when too much power is invested in individuals or bureaucracy, and left unchecked.
Indeed -- it's almost a generic criticism, and weaker for it. But that in itself shows the power of greed, that it subverts every effort to either discard it or harness it, which is the essential distinction, respectively, between Marxism and unbridled capitalism.
(December 7, 2014 at 5:39 pm)Nope Wrote: I have tried several times to read Rand's novels but have never been able to connect with her characters. Every person that she creates just seems too flat. There are other books that I have enjoyed with one dimensional characters but usually there is an interesting plot or something else to keep my attention. Rand's novels don't even have an interesting plot and are just boring. It amazes me that her books are popular when they are so bad.
Her ability to sculpt characters is perhaps the worst of any best-selling author I've ever read in my life. And shitty dialogue, too.
