“Does anyone else get a real Mad Men vibe from this novel. I just found myself picturing Peter Keating as Peter Cambell, running around the Sterling Cooper offices. It's not simply the era, or the business like settings but the vibe of the pieces that really made the comparisons evident. Now i can't watch the show without seeing how Don fares as an objectivist icon.”
“I'm about two chapters into this book, and I am absolutely enthralled. The scene describing Roark jumping off the cliff reminds me of the painting "The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog"”
“hmmm. there's something about the way this book ends, like a happily ever after, cape flowing in the wind as the hero beams with pride looking past the horizon... i don't know... the book ends on a happy note that seems too ludicrous to contemplate seriously, after the 3 million pages of reading one just did... anyone else feel that way? ”
“Whether one agrees with Ayn Rand's philosophies or not, there is no question that she was a genius. I can't read a Rand novel without completely re-evaluating my personal ethics. That is not to say that I change my values and adopt those of Rand, but she presents her thoughts in a way that force me to think things through more thoroughly. The Fountainhead, in my opinion, is Rand's best work. Atlas Shrugged is more of the same, but written by an older, more experienced Ayn Rand who seemed to have deliberately dulled her sword a bit in the name of good politics. But The Fountainhead just rams it in!”
“okay”
“what is this book about?”
“Roark is based on Frank Lloyd Wright. The house on the cliff that Roarke blows up, actually exists.”
“Ive been tryin to complete ths book like since 3months..end up reading 100 pages(pdf format)..bt i do like Roark....I feel hez really cool.”
“could be one of the all time best books, probably requires two real reads to pick up many of the nuances in Rand's writing”
“I like all of the Ayn Rand I have read. It's compelling reading.”
