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To: Brookhaven
Rand’s work is difficult to read. She takes 10 pages to make a story point that could be made in one page.

If it's that easy, why don't you write a book. Cover the same themes, make it entertaining, and simplify it enough so the masses can enjoy it too...

43 posted on 04/18/2011 9:32:22 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Dead Corpse

If it’s that easy, why don’t you write a book. Cover the same themes, make it entertaining, and simplify it enough so the masses can enjoy it too...


In the same class of statement as “if we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we...” Pretty much pointless.

I’ve said in the past that the points she makes in the book are almost prophetic. Certainly her insight is pretty deep. But the fact is her writing style hard to read. It just is what it is.

Recently I downloaded some short stories in epub format from a site that has areas for new and little know authors. I didn’t really look at the author’s names, but just read the some that had descriptions that looked interesting. After I finished one, I thought “that was a great read.” It was so well written that I forget I was even reading. Turned out it was an old short story by Frank Herbert (author of Dune).

I’ve read Dune several times, just for the fun of reading. It deals with complex ideas, yet (imho) it doesn’t bog down and is an entertaining read.

Atlas Shrugged (imho) is a hard read. I’m not critisizing the ideas found in the book, but the writing itself is hard to handle. That’s just (again imho) just the way it is.


46 posted on 04/18/2011 10:21:59 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Moderates = non-thinkers)
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