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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I think the timing is key for liking Heinlein/finding him profound.
I have this same response to Ayn Rand. I just think there are author's you read and you think "Oh. Yeah. Deep. Model for my life." and then you grow up and realize, "Huh. Crappy."
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
I have this same response to Ayn Rand.
Man. If I had a nickel for every meat head in a Co-ed Naked Wrestling t-shirt who had some life-changing epiphany after reading The Fountainhead, I could take a year off of work.
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
Be grateful you aren't rereading Fu Manchu. It didn't start out great, and man, is it worse when you aren't an adolescent.
I think my Ayn Rand issue (and Tim, frankly, I don't give a shit if you think she's brilliant. You're wrong.) rests around the idea that her whole philosophy was justification for behavior that was juvenile and selfish, unnecessarily self-important and self-indulgent and just generally crappy.
Betsy, huh? Fu Manchu?
Agreed, Kat re: Rand.
She would have made a good third wife to Heinlen.
Ouch!
I make me laugh.
It makes me laugh too!
I think my Ayn Rand issue... rests around the idea that her whole philosophy was justification for behavior that was juvenile and selfish, unnecessarily self-important and self-indulgent and just generally crappy.
I agree, and I don't like her writing either. Objectionable content + unappealing style = I think I'll read something else. Such as Elvis Shrugged.
I adored Fu Manchu. (I knew it was bad and Bad For Me; I just loved the over-the-top melodrama.)