Ayn Rand
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 3.87 | 287903 Users | 11638 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Fountainhead |
| Author | : | Ayn Rand |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 25 Aniv Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1996 by Signet Book (first published 1943) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Philosophy. Literature |
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The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...
“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times
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| Original Title: | The Fountainhead |
| ISBN: | 0451191153 (ISBN13: 9780451191151) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Howard Roark, Peter Keating, Ellsworth Toohey, Dominique Francon |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 287903 Users | 11638 ReviewsAssess About Books The Fountainhead
(Update at end; latest is 2013-11-12)OK, Ive got to explain this four-star rating, because I dont want anyone to think Id actually recommend this book...It has been many years since Ive read either of Ayn Rands two doorstop books, and I cant really recall the details of either. Im pretty sure the one with John Galt had the absurdly long speech near the end, and all the cool kids smoked special cigarettes, and was mostly about railroads. This was the one with the architect, right?Anyway, I think5 stars for being a ludicrously entertaining soap opera. The most lurid, overdone philosophical text I've ever read (probably because I haven't gotten to Atlas Shrugged yet).Whether you agree with Rand's ideas or not (please say you don't!), it's pretty damn entertaining to watch them played out via a cast of steely heroes and sniveling villains. The S&M sex scenes are probably the best part - objectivism in the bedroom.Worth reading for sure, if you can keep your head on your shoulders and
There's a certain kind of gentleman who comes to my reviews and says: "WRONG!"which is seriously what some dude led with just today, and I play a game with people like this; the game is, go to their profiles and find the five-star review of Ayn Rand. It's always there!* Ayn Rand is the patron saint of mansplainers. Other things mansplainers are super into reading- Tropic of Cancer- Alan Moore* To be honest today's dude didn't have her**, but he did have an "essential reading" shelf with The Bell
this review is bizarrely getting votes from people i don't know, so let me just reiterate that the text of the prediction is from mcsweenys, in case it's not clear that all i did was a little cutting and pasting.instead of reading this book, just read ayn rand's superbowl prediction in mcsweeney's and you'll get the idea:When he saw Bill Belichick in the hallway before the press conference, Tom Coughlin's face contorted into a whine. "It isn't fair!" he shrieked. "You have all the best players!"
★★★★★★★★★☆[9/10]My mind is blank. The Fountainhead is a saga. It had been a part of my day for six months, until today. All these days, I had so badly wanted it to be over, but today, now that it's over, I don't know why I should feel a great sense of loss. It is such a ginormous vacuum which is going to take a while to be filled with an equally good, if not better, mind-numbing piece of literature. I had always wondered, while writing reviews, who the review should be addressed to- one who has
I hated Anthem so much that I vowed never to read another book by Ann Rand, but I still talk about how much I hate all of her other books, too. That's how much I disliked Anthem. I also think I have the right to hate The Fountainhead without having read it because:a) Ayn Rand is a horrible writer. Everything I've seen by her is badly written and I don't like badly written books.b) Ayn Rand thought she was a philosopher and injects her silly "objectionist" point of view into all her books. She
This book is easily described as garbage. Poorly imagined, poorly conceived and poorly written it is only exceptional in the lengths it will go to justify the morally, ethically and socially reprehensible behavior of the central character who's vaunted genius amounts in the end to nothing more than being a willful disobedient ass. He is neither original or exceptional, he is simply an ass, and is treated as an object of admiration for it. A thoroughly disgusting piece of writing.
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