O-Land News Junkie Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 New York Times writer Rachel Donadio explores the “It’s not you, it’s yours books” problem in romantic love — a problem very familiar to many admirers of Ayn Rand’s novels.From her perspective, though, it’s the like (rather than dislike) for Rand’s novels that indicates middlebrow tastes:Pity the would-be Romeo who earnestly confesses middlebrow tastes: sometimes, it’s the Howard Roark problem as much as the Pushkin one. “I did have to break up with one guy because he was very keen on Ayn Rand,†said Laura Miller, a book critic for Salon. “He was sweet and incredibly decent despite all the grandiosely heartless ‘philosophy’ he espoused, but it wasn’t even the ideology that did it. I just thought Rand was a hilariously bad writer, and past a certain point I couldn’t hide my amusement.†(Members of theatlasphere.com, a dating and fan site for devotees of “Atlas Shrugged†and “The Fountainhead,†might disagree.)Indeed.Sounds like they both dodged a bullet. Two cheers for being unable to hide your own literary tastes!And I’ll second Donadio’s suggestion to fall in love with someone who shares your taste in art. It makes a lot of other things go more smoothly.http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/742.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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