The Fountainhead | 
pickThe grandiosity and impact of this narrative is stunning. Charles Dickens vibes.
Don‘t let the stigma of this book scare you—live some and take it on. The deep research and planning that plainly went into it has to be admired. I guess she spent like a year working in an architect‘s office. This novel brings you somewhere else completely. It‘s hypnotic, a movement, a signal from beyond. Like watching a movie and reading a book at the same time.
panThere are relationships in the story, but I‘m not sure how they happen given how selfish everyone is. I listened to the (lllllooooonnnnngggg) audio, and tuned much of it out, as it was boring. Boring boring boring. Maybe a good thing I tuned it out because there didn‘t appear to be a single likable character, as far as I could tell, from the bits and pieces I did pay attention to. Cont in comments...
pickI'm glad I've not skipped this 1000-page classic.
Indeed a novel of ideas!
Not related to objectivism or the author's philosophy in general, an idea has seemed to be haunting throughout the novel: brilliant new trends take time to be absorbed and acknowledged by the population, as the pace of the masses is not the same as the pace of a visionary, upright and uncompromising individual who eventually becomes the engine of innovation for society.
so-soI'm glad that I finally read this one, but I'm also glad to be finished with it.
I can definitely see the appeal, and there were parts that I thought were wonderful writing. However, after about 300 pages, the characters and the ideology become repetitive, one-dimensional, and tedious.
I might have felt differently had I read it when I was younger.
I can‘t explain why I loved the Fountainhead when I read it. Rand completely lacks anything that could be mistaken for a sense of humor. Her heroes seem more like robots than people and her characters lack complexity. If you read a Rand book, the author shares her views in a manner that is about as subtle as repeatedly whacking you over the head with a sledgehammer. Maybe I loved this book for Rand‘s celebration of innovation and creativity.
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I blacked out my Bingo board for July, but the tagged book might be what stops me in August. I've owned it since my freshman year in college, which was too long ago to admit, and I've never even tried to read it. There's no time like the present though to get it off my TBR finally. 😁
#wondrouswednesday Thank you @Eggs for the tag!
1) I fell in love with the tagged book in high school. And then thanks to my work on the school paper and the town paper I was invited to a journalism conference north of NYC my junior year during which we had a field trip to The Strand! I was in love with NYC (even the dirty 1980s version) and The Strand ever since! The next year I started working in NY!
2) Absolutely!
3) Litsy reviews! 😉
My husband visited my work for the first time this weekend & took some pretty pictures. This is a detailed shot of the fountain in the library‘s garden.
"Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness."
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1. Tagged. I don't know if its underrated, but I know a lot of people don't like Ayn Rand's writing. I hated Atlas Shrugged but I loved this book.
2. Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Both are too long and too boring.
3. The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline both deserve to be genre classics.
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Finished reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
A book that made me think about objectivism a bit but I finally settled down on the fact that no one philosophy can perfectly work in unison with our complex minds.
Also found the book to be quite lengthy and some things didn't make sense like the fact that Howard Roark was acquitted from court in the end.
Rand can write some damn good mind-fuckery, can't she?
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Philosophy, architectural descriptions, society-culture commentary, heroic character, mind-fuckery and aggressive sex. What more do you want in a book?
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pickMy first time reading Ayn Rand. The protagonist ranks among my top five in the novels I‘ve read.
"Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?"
-- Howard Roark, the man who stands for something and stands alone ?
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"Can't you ever be comfortable -- and unimportant?"
"No."
Sums up my Saturday well ?
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• Good morning, friends 🌼 Don't know when I'll get to actually settle down for #Deweys24HourReadathon today; I think we're in Hour 3-4 now. I hope to make some more progress with the tagged book, and I'll also be moderating Hours 18-19 on the official Dewey's #Goodreads page. Who's doing the RAT?! •
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"Well, you see, Guy Francon -- it's only a name. He would have nothing to do with your house. It's one of those professional secrets that I shouldn't divulge, but I don't know what it is about you that makes me want to be honest. All the best buildings in our office are designed by Mr. Stengel."
"Who?"
"Claude Stengel. You've never heard the name, but you will, when someone has the courage to discover him." TBC in comments ⬇️
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"Compromise. Compromise now, because you'll have to later anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't."
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"Francon smiled. And Keating thought suddenly that Francon did not really believe it and knew that Keating did not believe it, and yet they were both contented, bound tighter together by a common method and a common guilt."
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"Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing."
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1. Biochemist, about to be graduate student 😁
2. Ayn Rand and Lauren Oliver
3. I have two turtles at my house and a chihuahua at my parents' house.
4. Lots of reading, but not many books 👀
5. When people say my name too much
6. Do books count? 🤪
7. Reading, Animal Crossing, pokemon
8. Paramore and Panic at the disco
A great man, thought the Dean, or a criminal. The Dean winced. He did not approve of either.
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"Every form has its own meaning...I'd like to understand."
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"My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
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For once, she expected some emotion from him; and an emotion would be the equivalent of seeing him broken. She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
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I've decided this is THE YEAR I read all these books I've been putting off. Most of these have sat sad and lonely for years and years.
What is one book you have been wanting to read but keep putting off?? 📚
#QuotsySept19 Day 26: #Fitness
1. I thought this book was the WORST.
2 The Daily Show
3. Treat day - 🥯 sandwich
4. EST
5. Black Marvel ... I Am not nearly so cool as Kamala Khan (my current read is Ms. Marvel, so yeah, I don‘t think this would work).
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Caught reading- my 17yo reading The Fountainhead at his 14yo brother‘s soccer game. We‘re in Pontiac, Michigan for a couple of days of soccer. He‘s disappointed that this is the last of Rand‘s fiction. He tackled Atlas Shrugged and Anthem last summer.
so-so3 ⭐️.
Rand deserves an A+ for the writing used to preach about her philosophy, thought it didn‘t appeal to me. While I did like some of the characters and the ideals they stood for, I found some of them to be boring and therefore uninteresting and unimportant to the plot. Rand‘s writing is descriptive, sometimes to the point of being too wordy, but it did help to visualize the scenery of this era of NYC.
Overall good but would not reread.
Ugh, Wynand is the definition of Hot Mess Express. That man needs to get his life together. I was starting to like his sense of perseverance and ambition as a young adult, but it quickly deteriorated once his backstory gave more detail into his adult life. He sounds like a spoiled, greedy child with no sense of responsibility, importance or priorities.
Thoughts? ⬇️
Dominique is a tough character for me to understand. It feels almost like she makes choices to run away from the life she really wants to have, but won‘t allow herself the self-satisfying feeling of accepting a life with Roark. I‘d have to choose an act of cowardice.
Post your thoughts below! ⬇️
🗣 #FountainheadBuddyRead Part 3 discussion questions are about to be posted up! 💬💭
Crime: Charged with not keeping up with this #LitsyBuddyRead.
Verdict: Guilty as charged. 🙈😬
I know I haven‘t been the best leader for #FountainheadBuddyRead. Please forgive me; this is not an easy, breezy book to get through but I‘m trying my best! 😭
Here are the updated dates for discussion posts. I love to see your thoughts as you read so please keep them coming! ❤️
Thanks to all my buddies joining me on this 🥰
pickThis was my one and only audible book this month. #litsybuddyread #buddyread Stop by my blog and check out my thoughts. https://reecaspieces.com/2019/03/28/march-audible-reads-audible-audiobooks/
I haven‘t been reading much this week, but I hope I get back in my routine soon. I miss my books. For any #FountainheadBuddyRead friends, I will post up questions as soon as I get through Part 3!
This has not been an easy week for me. My grandma just passed away at 91, almost exactly 2 years after my grandpa passed.
They are back together now, after a 70 year long marriage and 2 difficult years apart. I miss them both so, so much. 💔
