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 got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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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.
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 7:24:07 am PST #4115 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 7:28:31 am PST #4116 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
Kat - Jan 27, 2005 7:41:29 am PST #4117 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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?
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 7:45:04 am PST #4118 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Agreed, Kat re: Rand.
She would have made a good third wife to Heinlen.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 27, 2005 7:47:30 am PST #4119 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ouch!
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 7:48:35 am PST #4120 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I make me laugh.
Kat - Jan 27, 2005 7:49:58 am PST #4121 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It makes me laugh too!
joe boucher - Jan 27, 2005 8:04:43 am PST #4122 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
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.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 8:06:06 am PST #4123 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I adored Fu Manchu. (I knew it was bad and Bad For Me; I just loved the over-the-top melodrama.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 27, 2005 8:11:01 am PST #4124 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
I don't know that it changed my life or anything, but I really liked Siddhartha. I dug the theme of duality.