On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote: > I never liked Ayn Rand - always felt like she was a drill sergeant insisting > on her way...and all that aggrandizement of architects - utter rubbish.
Yes - I couldn't stomach the characters and the tone. It's been a while since I touched this (30 years?). Another book I had trouble with (finished only about 1/4 of it - unusual for me) this last year was Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I took a strong dislike to all the characters - I suspect it was class prejudice on my part. I know this is unjust and cranky - the writing was great - but I was hoping that all the characters would move on and more interesting ones would move into the neighborhood. As I write this I think I must be channelling my mother. When I was a kid watching Star Trek she used to make fun of their whole world: "You mean - in the future no one has a real job and they fly around in spaceships all day wearing pajamas?". Although I'm sure Austen's characters weren't wearing pajamas I do wish that with their compassion and intelligence that they found something better to do with their time.
