/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21957479]

Enough Atlas Shrugged posts. Give us your thoughts about The Fountainhead.

[Anonymous No.21957601]

For what it's worth I think the movie is better.

[Anonymous No.21957983]

>>21957601
Retard.

Great Book.

[Anonymous No.21959530]

>>21957983
Hey, the movie was also written by Rand!

[Anonymous No.21959604]

It's good, but, she mistakes engineers for architects.

She also didn't do herself any favours having her main female character basically demand the MC have sex with her, then calls it rape. Irrational in the extreme, particularly as she says in the same breath that she wanted to be raped...so it's not rape.

But I've seen people make the argument that she advocates for rape because of it.

[Anonymous No.21959723]

>>21957479
I liked it better than Atlas Shrugged. It's more concise and not as "epic".

[Anonymous No.21959791]

>>21959604
I think Rand was working through some kinks she had when she wrote the sex scenes in her books.

[Anonymous No.21959836]

>>21957479

It's a good book and I think much better than Atlas Shrugged. It doesn't feel much like a long drawn out rant and Howard Roark and Ellsworth are some of the most underrated heroes and villains in American literature

[Anonymous No.21960060]

>>21959530
my theory is that she wrote the screenplay in a meth-induced manic episode in a single night

[Anonymous No.21960093]

Gloriously autistic.

I think if she were alive today she would be an unhinged fujoshi and a mod on female dating strategy reddit.
Lucky she was born in time where it was sink or swim for people like her, forced her to create her own niche.

[Anonymous No.21960235]

>>21960060
I totally believe that, it's an insane screenplay.

[Anonymous No.21960255]

>>21957479
Haven't got around to it yet but looking forward to being able to put some days aside and plow through it in a few sittings.

[Anonymous No.21960271]

>>21957479
>book is called "The Fountainhead"
>he never builds a fountainhead

[Anonymous No.21960630]

>>21957479
I really liked it. I didnt think it was some type of absolute masterpiece, but she made her points clear with the characters. It was overall enjoyable, though the sex scenes did not feel necessary for the point to be made.

[Anonymous No.21960920]

>>21960271
Doesn't it mean originality or something thematically relevant?

[Anonymous No.21961695]

Is the centennial edition worth it or nah?

[Anonymous No.21962167]

>>21961695
This one? It's nice but they misspelled "Francon" as "Franchon" in the inner flap. Also I don't know why they call it centennial, because it wasn't published in 2000 or on the 100th anniversary.