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Attention: /lit/ users who have read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, I need your opinion on something. I would like to know, between these two books, which do you think would require a high comprehension level. I am not including the fact that AS is double the size of The Fountainhead, I just mean which has a more complex literary style. Merci!
>inb4 AYN RAND IS FOR MISUNDERSTOOD TEENAGERS, FAG.

>> No.3281317

Are you going to use this to try to indoctrinate a child?

>> No.3281327

>>3281317
No, I am just looking for an opinion for my own self interest.

>> No.3281333

Neither of those books require "a high comprehension level", OP.

>> No.3281337

>>3281327
Your own... rational self interest?

>> No.3281345

>>3281333
I didnt say they would, I said which of the two requires a "higher" comprehension level. As in which of the two is more difficult. I am worried that this thread is soon just going to turn into opinions on whether people like ayn rand.

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Basically, they take some trudging to get through. But if you have a basic education (as in you can read) you should be fine. Objectivism isn't that hard to understand...
Pic semi-unrelated.

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>>3281337
I should have seen that coming.

>> No.3281359

>>3281345
Most of /lit/ doesn't. A few people on /lit/ do.

There. I just saved everyone the effort.

>> No.3281382

The Fountainhead, because it's the only one of the 2 I read.

>> No.3281383

>>3281351
This helped somewhat.
Bumpin in case anyone else can help.

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3281430

Why don't you just read them?
Or is the object of your post to figure out which one to read?

Fountainhead is better as a story. AS has a messy plot, but her philosophy is more thoroughly defined. Might as well read her essays.

>> No.3281448

>>3281430
I have already read Fountainhead I am just wondering if AS would be a considerably more challenging book.

>> No.3281466

>>3281448

not really more challenging. just longer

>> No.3281556

They're both very easy books if you can maintain interest in the subject matter. A.S pretty much spells out the entire theme of the book in the plainest language near the end. A reasonably curious pre-teen could enjoy it. That's not a dig, I just think a pre-teen could read it.

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3281567

>You will never hate-fuck Ayn Rand

>> No.3281583

About the same, op. Not very challenging. Some of Rand's more academic works are a bit heavier.

Of the two, read The Fountainhead. Better story.

>> No.3281588

>>3281313
look at that gaze filled with evil

>> No.3281598

Ayn rands paradise go to hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-_CLDNkv4k

>> No.3281601

The Fountainhead has a Lexile of 780. Atlas Shrugged is 1070.

Lexile scores are a score of complexity of content, ranging from 0 to 2000; the higher the number, the more complex the material. So, Atlas Shrugged is more complex than The Fountainhead.

Aside from that, though, Rand was laughed out of academia because of her lack of academic rigor. Stick to someone with better standards.

>> No.3281624

>>3281601
lexile scores are such bullshit

>> No.3281636

>>3281598
wat?

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>>3281601
>Lexile scores
laughingwhores.jpg

I wish I could ignore the rest of what you post

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>>3281652

>> No.3281675

These books are only worthy in terms of lulz factor.

>> No.3281685

>>3281675
and why is that?

>> No.3281693

>>3281652
You've just proved the accuracy of Lexile scores. Rand and Hawk are both babbling idiots. Rand because she's fucking retarded, and Hawk because he fell on his head too many times.

>> No.3282609

What is the deal with objectivism? I mean, is it really so bad as all of you guys let it out to be?

>> No.3282985

>>3282609
It's just very boring for such an extreme ideology.

>> No.3282991

>>3282609
it's rand's furious response to the soviet union's formation.

>> No.3282996

sage

>> No.3283380

What happened to rule 1?