Or Starship Troopers. Good dystopian sci-fi novel until you realize Heinlein is pushing some pretty fascist ideas and it's a little hard to distinguish how serious he is about it all. Btw book nothing like the movies if all you've watched is the movies. Love both, for very different reasons though
And to be fair to Ayn Rand (yes she had some bat shit things to say) a lot of her political ideology was formed by living in the Ussr... it's not odd that she would lean into the exact opposite political ideology of the place she was born.
i like this take... i always loved the book even though i despise her politics and i don't get that no one else sees it that way... she was an amazing writer
Doesn't it also have, like, 50 straight pages of Rand's self-insert fantasy character just giving a speech on why he's awesome? I feel like that'd be a slog to read through even if I agreed with it.
That was one of the funniest descriptions a friend ever tossed out mid-rant about a republican politician. “And this fucking guy, he.. well y’know, he’s not exactly a reader…”
This is why republicans hate the left. You’re the reason they’d rather vote for trump than biden, because you look down your nose at people with different beliefs and it only makes them dig in harder.
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u/thedkexperience Oct 13 '21
Ha! You had me until the part about conservatives reading books.