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Authors: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book

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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 720
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.7

ISBN: 0451191153
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780451191151
ASIN: 0451191153

Publication Date: September 1, 1996
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Amazon.com Review
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.

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Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

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Why are her novels so dreadfully boring? March 11, 2010
WallStreetWelfareRecipient (USA)
I'm sorry but Rand's novels are just plain boring. I've read three of them and all three of them have bored me toward near-death experiences. She seems to hold up creative people as some kind of heroes but the problem I see is that highly creative people never behave the way she portrays them. Her characters are always so stilted, so two-dimensional, so much like cardboard cutouts of what real heroic people are like. She seems to be marketing some ideal about running a world without emotions as though rational thinking sets atop some kind of rock-solid pedestal that is completely separate from and immune from our emotional lives. It's not the way our brains are "wired" and it's certainly not the way the minds of creative people work. Creative work involves tons of intuition, which is closely linked to our emotional inner world. From what I can tell Rand experienced little or none of the intuition necessary for creative life. She seems to dream of a world operated by some big mathematical computer program that she, and she alone, wrote over and over and over into all of her novels.

5 out of 5 stars

Provocative Read! March 9, 2010
browneyedgirl (MS)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I cannot believe it has taken me so long to discover Ayn Rand! The Fountainhead was an excellent introduction to her and her objective philosophy. Poetic writing, expertly weaved plot, and unforgettable characters...what's not to love?

5 out of 5 stars

Great plot, great characters February 21, 2010
B. Ransom (Sunnyvale, CA United States)
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What I love most about this book is the great plot and the very well developed characters. I find The Fountainhead is a bit easier to read and digest when compared to Atlas Shrugged (which I also love), and in my opinion, The Fountainhead also has a lighter touch when it comes to pushing objectivism.

This book is a great story about a man against the world, a man with strength of character who believes in what he does, and does it to best of his ability no matter the obstacles put in his way. Howard Roarke is a solitary man who who excels at architecture, despite the fact that all of peers believe that his work is rubbish. The truth of the matter is that most of them know, but won't admit, that it's really their work that is rubbish, not Roarke's.

It is well worth the read, and a great entry point before reading Atlas Shrugged, which is much longer, and delves more into the philosophy of objectivism.

5 out of 5 stars

If you liked Atlas Shrugged.... February 12, 2010
J. King (Metro Detroit, MI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

A different view on the same concept as Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. They should be sold as a set. Motivation for excellence!

5 out of 5 stars

The best book for free minds February 11, 2010
Barbano Giuliana (Torino, Italy)
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This is a book that can change the life of a man.
I only regret that I didn't read it before (unfortunately the italian translation is so disgusting that you need to learn english to read the original version!)

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