"The Power by Naomi Alderman review – if girls ruled the world | Books". What are your thoughts on this article? You could give your own opinion on the book as well.

RossParka · 2020-04-10T16:32:24+00:00

I'm not particularly interested in what Naomi Alderman - a novelist and game writer who got her start in Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction according to Wikipedia - thinks would happen if hypothetically a bunch of people got electrokinesis powers. I'd just as soon guess the consequences for myself, or read some random redditor's guess, if I cared.

I'm also not interested in what Guardian deputy literary editor Justine Jordan thinks of the book. Like Alderman, she doesn't strike me as an intellectual heavyweight whose opinion is worth any special consideration.

To the extent that Ayn Rand's political philosophy makes sense in her books, it's because all of her characters behave in just the right way. If they didn't, it wouldn't. This has no bearing on whether any of it makes sense in real life where there's no author-god pulling the strings. I generally find fiction with a political message unbearable for exactly this reason - they seem to think they're proving something when they're really just expressing an opinion with extra steps.

2020-04-11T18:37:13+00:00

Just a man hater who made a book describing the world she dreams about

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