Ayn Rand and Leonard (AFT) Peikoff - Fountainhead

The Bottom Line: While the novelist develops characters well in this book, all of them are ultimately unlikeable and most are spouting dogma that is sickening.

Review: "The Fountainhead" is a long, long book and the problem is, too often, it feels long. Why does it feel long? Mostly because it's repeditive on issues of character and most of the characters only show great insight once every hundred pages.

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Review: Celebrate True Greatness: that is the theme of this book.

Many people don't get that. This book, along with other Rand writings,has become territorialized by the Republican right wing. They would like to think they engender concepts...

The Bottom Line: I highly recommend this book. It is well written, and contains a myriad of interesting characters. I do caution, however, not to blindly adopt or dismiss Rands philosophy.

Review: It took a few tries to get past the first few paragraphs of this book- but once I made it through the strange (to me at the time) writing style of this Russian-American author, I was dazzled.

Ayn Rand used this book (and others) to present...

The Bottom Line: A great book, with controversial ideas, that will deny all your previous expectations of what literature and morality should be.

Review: "The Fountainhead" is not quite as good as "Atlas Shrugged" (that is, of course, if you consider that to be good - I certainly do) but you have to look at it as a totally separate book, one that's a bit incomplete in its expression of Rand's...

Review: Life, as they say, is in the details. Few would agree with this sentiment more than Ayn Rand, who believed that the only purpose of human existence was to achieve personal happiness. In her breakthrough work,The Fountainhead, she painted her picture...

The Bottom Line: Read it when you're young, with a large shaker of salt. DO NOT TAKE THIS BOOK SERIOUSLY

Review: And I will howl at you if you take this bloated tome too seriously. I mean, the hero is a rapist and the female lead a self-loathing adulteress. Enough said.

A favorite of sophisticated high schoolers everywhere, Ayn Rand's "The...

Review: Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead is not a typical novel read for the enjoyment of the plot or the literary style. Rather, it introduces the reader to the author's unique philosophy of Objectivism. There is some controversy surrounding Objectivism...