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1611402 No.1611402 [Reply] [Original]

I just finished reading Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead', and I think it changed my life. If everyone behaved like Howard Roark, the world would be a better place, no doubt about it. I haven't read very many books since I'm still in highschool (We had to read this book for class), so I'd like to know some other books I might like.

Golly, I used to be a democract, but like I said- this book changed my life, lol.

>> No.1611409

7/10

>> No.1611420

I don't know how someone could rank the fountainhead under a 9/10

>> No.1611429

all of this is just so dull

>> No.1611440
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0/10

How to troll with rAND:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Ayn_Rand#Trolling_with_Rand

OP hasn't imagination

>> No.1611442

>>1611440
Which one of you faggots goes to ED?

>> No.1611453
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>>1611420
>>1611402

samefag

>> No.1611456

>>1611453
She's kinda hot.

>> No.1611464

We The Living is better.

WTL > Fountainhead > AS

>> No.1611465

Somebody needs to make an ED page for /lit/.

>> No.1611468

>>1611465
Someone needs to stop fagging this place up.

>> No.1611472

>>1611456

Boy, you don't even know.
Femanon here and she is my girlfriend.

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>>1611472
Oh, hell yeah!

>> No.1611481

>>1611464
AS > Everything else Rand.

If you read Atlas first, everything she has to say is in there so the older works are just repetition.

>> No.1611487

>>1611481
but that's the thing. AS tells. WTL shows. It's a lot more personal and emotional and the characters aren't just cutout representations of ideas. AS was just an excuse for the speech.

>> No.1611511

The connection I felt with The Fountainhead is that the main character is an artist in a way. It's an inspiring read for any creative person to have dedication and perseverance in their work.

>> No.1611548

>>1611544
There is only one girl in this picture.

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>>1611479

You liek? Tha's us together.

>> No.1611550

>>1611548

Oi, don't be dissin me, bitch. Keep it up and I won't post no more!

>> No.1611554

>>1611550
That was my intention, that you would discontinue posting pictures of disgusting lesbians on /lit/. Considering, after all, it is not lit related.

>> No.1611560

>>1611554

Considering that aYN rAND was a filthy lesbo, I think I'm allowed, bitch

>> No.1611565

>>1611560
That is the worst logic I've ever heard.

1. Ayn Rand is not literature
2. Even if her work was considered literature, her sexual deviance is still not lit related.

>> No.1611566

We need to petition whoever the fuck to add 'Ayn Rand' to whatever banned words list.

>> No.1611601

>>1611565
>>1611566
>>1611554

OP here, you bitches best stick with the topic of discussion or gtfo of my thread.
Ayn Rand is a world classic no matter what you say. And the fact that she was a lesbian and chose not to conform to socially acceptable sexual preferences only adds to the immense depth of her original ideas.

>> No.1611643

>>1611601


...Ayn Rand was not a lesbian.
She was a kinky fucking submissive, maybe.
Not a lesbian.

What the hell
>this thread

>> No.1611692

>>1611560
>>1611601
. . . Ayn Rand was essentially anti-homosexuality. She believed it was irrational and counterproductive to achieving personal excellence. (Though as an anarchist she didn't believe the government should have had the authority punish people for being homosexual.)

>> No.1611723

>>1611692
her views on sex were pretty much super lame.

It seems to me that male homosexuality is a better expression of her ideas than anything else. Meh.

>> No.1611745 [DELETED] 

>>1611723
I agree. Objectivism itself should leave quite a lot of room for homosexually, since it values individual expression so much (as opposed to societal norms) and doesn't seem to take much stock in reproduction. Ayn Rand herself typically spoke out against homosexuality quite vehemently, though, in interviews and in her writings.It was probably a product-of-the-times thing.

>> No.1611749

>>1611723
I agree. Objectivism itself should leave quite a lot of room for homosexuality, since it values individual expression so much (as opposed to societal norms) and doesn't seem to take much stock in reproduction. Ayn Rand herself typically spoke out against homosexuality quite vehemently, though, in interviews and in her writings. It was probably a product-of-the-times thing.

>> No.1611761

/lit/ - Literature
All literature discussion is welcome.
Do not upload images with embedded RAR files.
This is not a fan-fic board!
There is to be no discussion of Ayn Rand.

>> No.1611773

it's pretty clear that objectivism is not a philosophy. it's what a random person in a random corner of the world thought of on a particular day, with no particular value. now who would care about what rand thought about sex

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>>1611773
>it's pretty clear that objectivism is not a philosophy.
>describe philosophy

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>>1611785
deal with it