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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net to c/books@lemmy.ml

Writing a Good Bad Guy in Books (In Fact any media) is the "classic choice" sometimes they are really poorly made, and don't work. Other times, they are loved so much that when the character was only added to kill the hero, they end up becoming an Icon

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Galt follows Dagny to New York, where he hacks into a national radio broadcast to deliver a three-hour speech that explains the novel's theme and Rand's Objectivism.

That speech is sixty fucking pages of bullshit. He's boring as living fuck because Ayn Rand had a boring fucking mind and wanted to fuck rich men.

[-] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago
[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's meant to be the hero, but it's all such a joke... and he's the rich man who can control it all! Like, my eyes couldn't roll any harder. He's the "hero" of her story but I've never unearthed a more boring or evil motherfucker.

When people say "The banality of evil" my mind goes "John Galt."

this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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