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8796351 No.8796351 [Reply] [Original]

Ok guys, I haven't read this yet (it's on my list), but the idea or plot seems interesting enough. I'm assuming the novel is about an avant-garde(insofar as he's attempting to operate on grounds not yet explored) architect who sticks by his attempts despite the opposition. Is this far off? If not it sounds like the story of an artist to look up to, what's the issue? Where does the egoism come in? Is the protagonist a piece of shit?

>> No.8796521

:(

>> No.8796556

It's a 700 page diatribe on collectivism. I like it tho

>> No.8796577

>>8796351
God it's so bad. There's so much to say about why it's bad, but to focus on just one thing is the constant fucking emphasis on his iconoclastic avant garde style of architecture that the stodgy architectural community won't accept because they dont believe in new ideas, and it's described as nothing more than watered down Frank Lloyd Wright and the book was written decades after he became popular and the architectural community started sucking his dick.
Which is to say the book sucks because it fundamentally misrepresents both artistic and engineering communities and also human nature itself.
Such a piece of shit.

>> No.8796612

>>8796351
"there was only [something] and the sky and the figure of howard roark"

saved you a few hours bro

>> No.8796665

>>8796577

>avant garde style of architecture that the stodgy architectural community won't accept because they don't believe in new ideas..

The architecture community did accept his ideas though, do you not recall the Cosmo-Slotnik that Roark designed for Keating, that Keating then took the credit for, and won the contract and the award?