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1381338 No.1381338 [Reply] [Original]

Post why you like or don't like this woman's work.
>inb4 oh here we go

>> No.1381341

for a long time, i mistook her for anne rice

>> No.1381348

>work

Bitching, ranting, wheedling, and whining isn't really "work," per se.

Sage for Ayn Rand.

>> No.1381365

>>1381348

At least she made sense, unlike most continental philosophers. Rand, in making sense, allowed us to criticize her and then move on. Other people waste years and years writing a dissertation on continental drivel! I think Rand deserves at least a little love for that.

>> No.1381367

Her metaphysics are laughably reasoned. They're basically a set of asserted axioms.

>> No.1381369

I thought We the Living was quite good.
Anthem is a superfluous, pretentiousness attempt at poetically saying, "The universe revolves around ME!"

Thereafter, her works get too thoroughly infused with a philosophy with which I don't agree. Though I can more than stand this with some writers, I find that Rand doesn't gracefully integrate objectivism into an eloquent story. The Fountainhead exemplifies this, and Atlas Shrugged epitomizes it.

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>>1381365
>rand
>make sense
>dismissing continental drivel wholesale

>> No.1382658

flat writing, characters that make me long for 2 dimensions, and narcissism disguised as philosophy. Other than that, she sucks.

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>> No.1382748

I don't like her protagonists--they are idiots.