I hated this book.............................................. !!!!

and now I have to write a 15+ page report on it!

 

Nine cowboy. What's it about? I love to read. 2 novels a month.

 

I read it a loooooooooooooooong tome ago.



















Tome as in big long book.
Forgot more than 15 pages of an essay.

 

I read "Atlas Shrugged", but not "The Fountainhead".

Ayn Rand's is an interesting philosophy.

Get the Cliff's Notes, why don't you?

I checked BookAMinute but they don't have anything by Rand.

 

Howard Rork is the architect, and main character of the book. There were rumors that it was modeled after Frank Lloyd Wright, but that is just not true.

Howard is a man of extreme principles, he represents a purity of the human spirit, an individual who is strong enough to go against the flow, a man who is proud enough to do what he thinks is right, no matter what. This man has a sense of self-confidence that is just so pure it is beautiful! He clearly is not a saint and breaks the law from time to time, but he is honest to himself and does not allow society to buy his values. He is a man.

Howard is but one of many characters, each character however has their own set of strengths, weaknesses and secrets. Reading the book would allow you to see the complexity of the human spirit so well crafted by Ayn Rand. And although it has been 20 years I think since I read the book, if I were to describe my visual/emotional impression of Dominique, I'm afraid this thread would get locked for being triple-x rated. She is a woman.

This is one of the best books I have ever read, all 3 or 4 times I did. And in fact, thanks, I think I will pull it back out of the library.

 

In "Heaven Can Wait" (the second one), there's a scene where Dyan Cannon is surprised--I believe by Warren Beatty--and jumps onto the couch, grabs a book, and tries to look nonchalant as she reads. The book is "The Fountainhead" and she's holding it upside-down

 

only read starwars novels... wowzas i've read 28...

 

Rand's philosophy all together does not work, she is a crack pot IMHO

 

I haven't read this one, but recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged for the first, and probably not the last, time. I have The Fountainhead on my bookshelf, but haven't been motivated to start it yet. I took a breather from Rand and read a couple of shorter novels in the meantime.

 

I read Ayn Rand's novels, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem and some others, about 20 years ago. They are all basically stories of very(too?) idealistic philosophical approach to life espoused by Ayn Rand called Objectivism. At the time, I thought it to be very impressive. However, as I got older, I began to think of it as being too simplistic, black and white view of the world, without any consideration for natural human frailties. In a way, it's similar to "Superman" philosophy that Nietzsche championed. In any event, it's definitely worth reading. The Fountainhead was made into a movie starring Gary Cooper & Patricia Neal, so you can watch it instead of reading the book, but book is lot more interesting.