Pros: Highly intellectual beneath an excellent story.
Full of characters you care about. Cons: Not for those intimidated by long books.
The reader is taken on quite a journey in The Fountainhead. The story of Howard Roark, Peter Keating, Domonique Francon and company compels the reader to identify themselves with certain characters and provokes deep introspection. All the while,...
Pros: Engrossing story, exciting ending. Cons: Didactic, sometimes more propaganda than plot.
The first of Rand's two 'master works,' The Fountainhead is undeniably an interesting piece of fiction. It is the story of one Howard Roark, a visionary architect and rugged individualist, and his encounters with "moochers, second handers, and...
Pros: Very solid look into the heart of Objectivism. Cons: Often dull throughout the storyline.
The Fountainhead is the story of Howard Roark who, despite the world, holds firm to his beliefs to the very end. The Fountainhead directly contrasts Roark to his old classmate Peter Keating, an exemplary "second-hander" whose existence relies solely on...
Pros: Good story. Good characters. Makes you think. Cons: Long. If you don't care to question society, it's not for you.
I never would have thought that I would read a rather long book about the lives of a couple of architects and enjoy it. Guess I should have thought harder. I went into this book having read one of Ayn Rand's shorter pieces, which I had enjoyed, and...
Pros: Starts out great. Cons: Selfishness through literature
The entire fascination with Ayn Rand baffles me. She is supposed to be this very modern philosophic writer, with emphasis on reason, but also romanticism. I was semi-intrigued by this philosophy of reason, and so I read "The Fountainhead" to...
Ayn Rand is the best author that I've ever read. The ideas that she lays out not only in The Fountainhead but also in Atlas Shrugged are some of the most challenging ideas ever put in print. To think of man as something to exalt and to think that...
I must say I did get a few valuable insights out of this book. For the most part I did not get much out of Rand's shallow philosophy. This book did have stuff to say but it was way, way too long. She could have got her point across with maybe 100...
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