yeah i'm pretty sure there's a lot of flat, didactic socialist fiction too, we're probably just less exposed to it.

SimpleStacker

ouch! but it rings true. The temptation to make cardboard characters is real. I'm sad to hear that Mandibles is like this -- I haven't read it yet.

I have read plenty of socialist works that had this quality. It's more like ideologues vs storytellers. If your goal is to get across a philosophy or an idea, you probably want to go the route of Robert Prisig rather than Upton Sinclair. Good writers are willing to let their ideas play second fiddle to their story.

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Lodging for Wayfaring Men Book Club: Chapter 1

Scoresby

> only socialists can write good fiction

ouch! but it rings true. The temptation to make cardboard characters is real. I'm sad to hear that Mandibles is like this -- I haven't read it yet.

I have read plenty of socialist works that had this quality. It's more like ideologues vs storytellers. If your goal is to get across a philosophy or an idea, you probably want to go the route of Robert Prisig rather than Upton Sinclair. Good writers are willing to let their ideas play second fiddle to their story.