The Fountainhead is one of my favorite novels. Roark's experiences mimicked many of my own, and I felt like less of a crazy person after reading it.
You don't have to completely agree with her philosophy to appreciate her work... though most are convinced she's a nutjob and dismiss her novels without having actually read them.
i've only read anthem, but later read this ^ and can't help but feel upset that she gets so much attention for a book she more or less ripped off. but all the dystopian literature about the Russian version of Communism is a little annoying. even classics like 1984 can get a little boring to me. Individuality =
EDIT: Though props for the Prometheus references. Prometheus as a myth is so gangster.
i've only read anthem, but later read this ^ and can't help but feel upset that she gets so much attention for a book she more or less ripped off. but all the dystopian literature about the Russian version of Communism is a little annoying. even classics like 1984 can get a little boring to me. Individuality =
EDIT: Though props for the Prometheus references. Prometheus as a myth is so gangster.
Currently reading this.
Ayn ain't got SHIT on this.
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Haven't read Rand herself so I'm obviously not the best qualified literary critic of hers' but ...what I briefly read gave me a notion of... going for the right direction but misguided and with a biased understanding of the essence of the goal and the reason for heading there.
Um.. never read philosophy of Rand nor of the objectivist movement before, not a thinker I would have ran to during my undergraduate studies...
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I'm currently finishing up The Fountainhead and I love it. It is very refreshing to me. I find the characters to be extremely interesting, especially Roark, Dominique and Gail Wynand. I see a lot of myself in Roark which is why I think I enjoy the book so much.
If you haven't read it, give it a shot, read it for what you can get out of it, without getting caught up in what people believe Rand's philosophies are.
Objectivism in of itself is generally pretty n00bish philosophy/economics . I will say I haven't read any of Rand, but given the fact that I've read plenty of comments and interviews from her and I know the books are more of the same, I'm unsure why I'd bother.
The "Intellectual Dishonesty" was a good idea. The extremo capitalism and homophobia not so much.
If you like Objective ethics mixed with some degree of sanity, check out Utilitarianism.
as much as personally loath Rand, it is important to take everything she did with a grain of salt, because objectivism is just a really, really harsh reaction to the environment she grew up in.
