joms
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David B. Lentz:
Good day! I found your ratings on Atlas Shrugged and D.H. Lawrence's novels as positive, and I'm currently quite anxious on starting them. I am easily influenced by reviews (be it negative or good) and I am a gullible guy. Perhaps because I am still a youth. I have those aforementioned books in my list and I just want to ask: what could I expect on reading those books?
David B. Lentz
Dear Joms,
Thank you for your very interesting question.
Both Rand and Lawrence are extraordinary writers and you can expect to benefit by the joy of reading both well crafted novels.
Their personal philosophies differ widely and it's best to leave to you what to make of them according to your personal experience and social convictions.
Ayn Rand escaped a repressive regime in Russia and came into her own with vast wealth and recognition in America. She is an unabashed but possibly myopic and chauvinistic champion of American capitalism, which is certainly understandable given her personal success within this economic system. Her protagonists work hard and strive intelligently within a capitalist society and profit immensely by it to realize the American Dream: good for them, right?
DH Lawrence is more focused on the tension between the structure of British society and the deep, inborn, human emotions repressed by it. Lawrence is concerned about the power of society of repress the expression of powerful, natural, inborn human sentiments which may lead to personal happiness without actually creating real harm to the structure of an enlightened civilization.
I hope this input combined with my reviews leads you to good reading: you are onto two skilled novelists whose writing speaks well of you to choose to experience and understand.
Cordially,
David
Thank you for your very interesting question.
Both Rand and Lawrence are extraordinary writers and you can expect to benefit by the joy of reading both well crafted novels.
Their personal philosophies differ widely and it's best to leave to you what to make of them according to your personal experience and social convictions.
Ayn Rand escaped a repressive regime in Russia and came into her own with vast wealth and recognition in America. She is an unabashed but possibly myopic and chauvinistic champion of American capitalism, which is certainly understandable given her personal success within this economic system. Her protagonists work hard and strive intelligently within a capitalist society and profit immensely by it to realize the American Dream: good for them, right?
DH Lawrence is more focused on the tension between the structure of British society and the deep, inborn, human emotions repressed by it. Lawrence is concerned about the power of society of repress the expression of powerful, natural, inborn human sentiments which may lead to personal happiness without actually creating real harm to the structure of an enlightened civilization.
I hope this input combined with my reviews leads you to good reading: you are onto two skilled novelists whose writing speaks well of you to choose to experience and understand.
Cordially,
David
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