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[–] SCB 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My main objection i similar to our but broader in scope. None of the main characters feel like real people. They are Platonic Ideals of Ayn Rand's fantasy lifestyle, full stop

That always annoys the shit out of me when not one well. It can be done well, but it takes a significantly better author.

I think author-kinks are a bit misrepresented (especially with Jordan, who I read more as commentary on power dynamics) but the point is not invalid at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of the main characters feel like real people.

Apparently she did that on purpose. From Wikipedia:

She wanted her fiction to present the world "as it could be and should be", rather than as it was. This approach led her to create highly stylized situations and characters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I consider that to be a wishful revisionism on her part. The truth is shes just a bad writer.

The charactors in her first book "Anthem" are exactly as wooden and fake as the charactors in "Atlas shrugged." She never developed any finesse or depth because real people aren't as shallow as the imaginary people she dreamt about.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago

The Fountainhead too. Howard Roark was just a cardboard cutout with a bunch of notes pinned to it.