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I am guessing you have never met someone who actually did like "Atlas Shrugged". The fact is, some people deserve harsh judgement. Including people who lie to
by EFreethought 2y ago
I am guessing you have never met someone who actually did like "Atlas Shrugged".
The fact is, some people deserve harsh judgement. Including people who lie to someone and think they are morally superior for doing so.
- kbelder 2y agoI liked Atlas Shrugged.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoWhy? What redeeming qualities does it have that make you prefer it to less mediocre books?
- 0xBDB 2y agoNot the person you were responding to, but if you ignore the hundred-page speech (which isn't that difficult to do) it's a fairly serviceable pulp sci-fi romance novel. It's far from Shakespeare and far from my favorite thing I've ever read, but it'll do in a pinch. I don't care for the philosophy/politics, but I've read a lot of good sci-fi that I didn't care for the philosophy behind. I like Starship Troopers, which isn't as fascist as some people think but is certainly right-wing. I like Orson Scott Card, regardless of what I think of his opinions on gay people. I like the Culture novels, which are lowkey anarcho-communist. I like China Mieville, and he's an unsubtle hardcore Marxist. Those are all much better than Rand, but not totally out of the ballpark (I think the Fountainhead is actually much better written than Atlas Shrugged). I agree with the original thread comment: people who can't separate literary and political merit are usually pretty tiresome in lots of other ways.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoA serviceable pulp novel is in line with my definition of mediocre literature, personally.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoThank You for the list, I'm going to look up a couple of these. I've never read the Culture wars or China Mieville. Somehow I've missed a whole range of books from 80's through early 2000's.
- kbelder 2y agoI don't prefer it to less mediocre books.
- mindcrime 2y agoI liked Atlas Shrugged, but consider The Fountainhead a better work.