Have you ever read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. I'm reading it know and find it very good. What did you think of it? (please no spoilers)
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I read it and enjoyed it. I read it about 25 years ago though.
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Very inspiring, made me want to emulate Roark & shape reality.
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I read it maybe 35-40 years ago. I enjoyed it but had some problems with it. Good story but I think people use it too much as some major statement for all lives.
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I read it last year (for the second time) and I absolutely loved it although after I had finished it I got this major sense of disappointment because reality isn't the same as the wonderful fantasy world Rand creates in her stories.
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I have always found the size of her books to be rather daunting... But unlike in the case of say... Tolstoy or Hugo, when you open her books you find that the length tends to add to the fact that they are a bit tedious and hard to catch character interest right away. Her characters tend to start off rather bland and un interesting and build momentium like snowballs. They are hard for me to want to continue reading. Some of the hardest books I have ever suffered through only to find at the end that I was dissappointingly, not as adoptive or accepting of her ideas as others always seem to be after reading her. I think it is a college student kind of thing?
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Loved it. I am big fan of objectivism. Selfishness solves problems.
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I worshipped Ayn Rand and objectivism and Howard Roarke. This was in college. I was a nerd and having a hard time and objectivism saved my life. But as time goes by, you realize its not THE GREAT TRUTH... No harm done, except that I can't think of Kant without cringing.
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yes, I enjoyed it right to the end, although hard to get into for the first 100 pages, I was tempted along by how beautifully she wrote. It causes such strong reactions in people, as you read above, I think she was simply making her point in fiction, she wrote fiction to bring her personal message to a larger audience. I don't think she would have written it worrying someone was going to point out her lack of economic or neuroscience aptitude as someone said earlier. I also disagree with comments she is lacking sense of humour, I found it quite amusing. Overall, I felt the book gave me a refreshed sense of finding and applying purpose to life, and not being held down by other people's ideas or societal notions of how life "should be", something which goes astray at different times in our life...
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After your done you can rent the movie with Gary Cooper. Won't do it justice though
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