The Fountainhead (1943) (edit title/settings)

• Rated 5 stars

“Masterpiece! Have never read a book quite like this. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“Ayn Rand need's no introduction to any serious reader. I have read her books more than 5-6 times over the last 15 years & she has the amazing capability to project her philosophy in an comtemporary perspective. You never feel as if you are reading a book which was written several decades earlier.
Recommend this as a must for everyone.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Rand is a brilliant writer - really. I don't agree with a lot of her philosophies and ideals. I certainly find partial truth in the things she espouses, but sadly, her view of the world appears pretty limited. This doesn't change the fact that she has a true gift for writing and for bringing her characters to life. In all, I will give it a high writing simply for her abilities, although there were certainly times where I just wanted the book to be over because the soapboxing became a bit irritating.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Really drilled on the the subject of quality and people searching out and rewarding that aspect of quality with money. Influenced my thinking for producing quality products and original pieces of artwork.”

• Rated 4 stars

“grand livre opposant ceux qui font: createurs...et ceux qui critiquent, perdonnages tres momolytiques,caricaturaux a mon gout,mais belle histoire,forte, didactique.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Actually liked this one better than Atlas Shrugged. Less ranting. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“I just gor started reading this literary classic, and I can't put it down. This is becoming a great study of characters and motivations that drives men for or against his fellowmen”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is my favorite book. I reread it about once a year so I can pull more things out of it with understanding. Ayn Rand and her political commentary are my guilty little pleasure, and I often times find myself agreeing with her views. She uses Howard Roark to explain the pure egotist, and Toohey to show how those like Roark are outcasted in society and become marks to be destroyed. This story is centered around architecture, Roark an architect who refuses to let his work be changed in any way but his own. He is met again and again by boards and other committees who wish to change his work to suit their taste, which eventually becomes the taste of the rest of society. The fight for his work as well as himself is what I love most about this book, besides Dominique Francon of course. There are tons of memorable quotes as well as a million of memorable lessons.”

• Rated 5 stars

“_The Fountainhead_ has a slow start and rewarding finish. The characters are unforgettable; especially Howard Roark. Roark fights against powerful people who use their self-propagated influence to destroy and undermine the purity of Roark’s work. Since Roark’s work is an art to which he devotes himself fully, attacking his building contracts is attacking his person. The complexity of the attacks against Roark’s buildings and any other praiseworthy creation in the novel—the spread of base, malignant opinion through an unthinking mass by avenue of high-society clubs and puppet celebrities—makes Toohey, a seemingly harmless intellectual, the book’s unforgivable villain. It certainly makes me want to research further into Rand’s philosophy. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“True and telling insight into the world.”