Comments on: Review: “We The Living,” by Ayn Rand http://www.ariyam.com/2008/07/26/review-%e2%80%9cwe-the-living%e2%80%9d-by-ayn-rand/ and babblings! Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John http://www.ariyam.com/2008/07/26/review-%e2%80%9cwe-the-living%e2%80%9d-by-ayn-rand/#comment-103609 John Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:17:49 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/?p=196#comment-103609 Cool!, having read books; among those, the fountainhead and I was pleased enough with We...(another great Russian nov) to commiserate its value here - but, but, but - as a novel it's, like, ok and as a work of philosophy, or a wedge stone in Rand's grand Cathedral it seems more pertinent. For a first novel by an acclaimed authoir it has the same tendencies most new authors eschew: the infallible plot (fallible plot?) substantiated by seemingly real-life experiences, a love story or something of the human drama in a mildly atypical format; that it is post White-Red War Russia is cool, but, like I'd say that its shallow and covets its realism as a mechanism to disguise its inability, I should say, her inability to move beyond the tendencies of a a-b-c-abc plot and really her writing is turgid or something. Read, Envy. If you want a simple Russian novel, as this is, and not worth any less for its simplicity, read Chekov. There are a lot of interesting scenes with soap in We The Living and the prose, is pretty solid. I would love for a good book rec. e-mail me at pacayasong@gmail.com Cool!, having read books; among those, the fountainhead and I was pleased enough with We…(another great Russian nov) to commiserate its value here – but, but, but – as a novel it’s, like, ok and as a work of philosophy, or a wedge stone in Rand’s grand Cathedral it seems more pertinent.

For a first novel by an acclaimed authoir it has the same tendencies most new authors eschew: the infallible plot (fallible plot?) substantiated by seemingly real-life experiences, a love story or something of the human drama in a mildly atypical format; that it is post White-Red War Russia is cool, but, like I’d say that its shallow and covets its realism as a mechanism to disguise its inability, I should say, her inability to move beyond the tendencies of a a-b-c-abc plot and really her writing is turgid or something.

Read, Envy.
If you want a simple Russian novel, as this is, and not worth any less for its simplicity, read Chekov. There are a lot of interesting scenes with soap in We The Living and the prose, is pretty solid.

I would love for a good book rec. e-mail me at pacayasong@gmail.com

]]> By: Savithri http://www.ariyam.com/2008/07/26/review-%e2%80%9cwe-the-living%e2%80%9d-by-ayn-rand/#comment-91635 Savithri Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:36:50 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/?p=196#comment-91635 We the living may not be a masterpeice as compared to her other works but it definitely had a messge like all her works.iot tells the story of a young woman caught between love for a man and the supression by the communists in Russia.I liked the book for its theme.However i it did not make me feel as i did after i read Atlas shruuged and The Fountainhead We the living may not be a masterpeice as compared to her other works but it definitely had a messge like all her works.iot tells the story of a young woman caught between love for a man and the supression by the communists in Russia.I liked the book for its theme.However i it did not make me feel as i did after i read Atlas shruuged and The Fountainhead

]]> By: derick http://www.ariyam.com/2008/07/26/review-%e2%80%9cwe-the-living%e2%80%9d-by-ayn-rand/#comment-75654 derick Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:52:17 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/?p=196#comment-75654 That's a fair response, and well-stated. But, can you offer something more specific as to why you liked the novel? That’s a fair response, and well-stated. But, can you offer something more specific as to why you liked the novel?

]]> By: RnBram http://www.ariyam.com/2008/07/26/review-%e2%80%9cwe-the-living%e2%80%9d-by-ayn-rand/#comment-75636 RnBram Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:57:33 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/?p=196#comment-75636 I started with an open mind, but the smarmy, glancing sneers and indirect smears became so repetitive it was impossible to keep reading. Of course, that is the primary technique of the pseudo-academia of Literature Depts at Universities. If, by their carefully masked feelings they like a book, they fawn over it with rationalizations ad nauseum. If by their carefully masked feelings they don't like a book (or are afraid to fully admit its merits) then they resort to negative rationalizations, sneers and smears. In the end, that is all you really had to offer —vacuous, even cowardly, <i>status quo</i>. Precisely what The Fountainhead shows one not to do. I started with an open mind, but the smarmy, glancing sneers and indirect smears became so repetitive it was impossible to keep reading. Of course, that is the primary technique of the pseudo-academia of Literature Depts at Universities. If, by their carefully masked feelings they like a book, they fawn over it with rationalizations ad nauseum. If by their carefully masked feelings they don’t like a book (or are afraid to fully admit its merits) then they resort to negative rationalizations, sneers and smears.

In the end, that is all you really had to offer —vacuous, even cowardly, status quo. Precisely what The Fountainhead shows one not to do.

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