RE: Obscure Ayn Rand Novel To Be Released
December 9, 2014 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2014 at 4:50 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(December 9, 2014 at 4:46 pm)simplemoss Wrote: Ok if she's such a bad writer in your high literary opinion then why is she so influential. Why does everyone here know her name??? I'm sure there are many great writers that we could not say the same about
Woah there...that's a particularly horrible argument...
There are plenty of awfully written literature that is still influential for one reason or another (kind of like..dunno..the Bible?). Appealing to its "influence" isn't any sort of point for or against a book's quality of writing.
And if I can put on my Godwin hat (as this was honestly the first thing that popped into my head)...
Ok if he's such a bad writer in your high literary opinion then why is she so influential. Why does everyone here know his name??? I'm sure there are many great writers that we could not say the same about
(Hitler)
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
