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Title: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Rman on December 11, 2014, 05:28:20 PM

This book has been on my shelf for a bit. A friend recommended it to me. Everyone knows Ayn Rand and her controversial views, but I hear this is one of the best novels every written.  I never quite made it past Atlas. I always got distracted with other books.

Any thoughts on this book?

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 11, 2014, 05:37:13 PM

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Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 11, 2014, 05:45:12 PM

Not even the best book for children the year it was published, that'd be The Little Prince.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: benjipwns on December 11, 2014, 05:56:06 PM

Go We The Living or Go Home.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Kara on December 11, 2014, 06:24:40 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8fkdBz2bds

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2014, 06:27:22 PM

I read it in highschool and liked it well enough.  not enough to try to tackle anything else she did (I do like Anthem too).  Most of the problematic stuff probably flew over my head though.  I don't have the time to try and re-read it to see if it holds up.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 11, 2014, 07:23:22 PM

I enjoyed it, but sort of jumped around and skimmed through it rather than reading front to back. My Atlas Shrugged reading was like that but even more so, I think I just skipped the first 300-odd pages to try and get to the juicy bits.

In general I like reading these kinds of books for the cognitive dissonance, I can get into the spirit of it and feel the righteous outrage that believers feel, but also simultaneously feel righteous outrage AT the book and its acolytes, so it's like double the righteous outrage pleasure that a normal book gives me. Before Twitter this was all I had.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 11, 2014, 07:36:54 PM

You might try Lord of the Rings instead.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: thisismyusername on December 11, 2014, 08:26:16 PM

If it's anything like Atlus Shrugged: No. Very, no.

I got like 300 of what... 1,000 pages into Atlus and just dropped it and haven't returned to it. It's just a bunch of boring writing to try to explain her worldview.

Title: Re: Outside of the pseudo-philosopy, is The Fountainhead a good read?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 11, 2014, 08:49:54 PM

If you must read Ayn Rand just read Anthem. It's like 80 pages and somewhat bearable if you imagine an 16 year old wrote it.