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 THE FOUNTAINHEAD Book Club Hardcover Edition AYN RAND 1968 $4.50 Time Remaining: 3d 7h 5m |
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 A TRIP IN SPACE Rand McNalley Start Right Elf Book 1968 $4.99 Time Remaining: 2d 9h 32m |
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 Once Upon a Time A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book 1960 $5.99 Time Remaining: 8d 7h 57m Buy It Now for only: $5.99 |
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 Rand McNally Start Right Elf Book Lets Grow Things $0.99 Time Remaining: 3d 40m |
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 Vintage A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book The Puppy That Found A Home 1957 8033 $6.99 Time Remaining: 5d 3h 18m |
 LITTLE SKATER BY DIANE SHERMAN 1959 RAND MCNALLY BOOK TIP TOP ELF BOOK $3.99 Time Remaining: 7d 18h 6m Buy It Now for only: $3.99 |
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 Rand McNally Start Right Elf Book Hop Away Joey $0.99 Time Remaining: 3d 50m |
 Goody A Mother Cat Story 1952 Rand McNally Elf Book $9.00 Time Remaining: 20d 5h 8m Buy It Now for only: $9.00 |
 ATLAS SHRUGGED BOOK BY AYN RAND SECOND PRINTING $149.99 Time Remaining: 6d 1h 4m Buy It Now for only: $250.00 |
 Growing Up Rand McNally Elf Book 1956 $19.99 Time Remaining: 3d 9h 34m |
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 Lets Grow Things Rand McNally Elf Book 1957 $19.99 Time Remaining: 3d 9h 35m |
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 Seven Wonderful Cats Rand McNally Elf Book 1956 $19.99 Time Remaining: 3d 9h 36m |
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 To The Store We Go Rand McNally Elf Book 1952 $14.99 Time Remaining: 3d 10h 22m |
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 BERTRAM AND THE TICKLISH RHINOCEROS RAND MCNALLY ELF BOOK COPYRIGHT 1948 $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 20h 8m |
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 Vintage 1964 BABY SISTER Rand McNally Tip Top Elf Book $6.99 Time Remaining: 23d 20h 20m Buy It Now for only: $6.99 |
 GOD IS GOOD by Mary Alice Jones RAND MCNALLY Hardcover Book Religious Education $4.99 Time Remaining: 1d 8h 57m |
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 CHESTER THE LITTLE PONY RAND MCNALLY ELF BOOK COPYRIGHT 1951 $4.99 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 10m |
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 Vintage 1961 Chester The Little Pony Rand McNally Elf Book $9.99 Time Remaining: 9d 7h 13m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
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Book Review - "Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
Plot
A poor and brilliant architect who refuses to compromise on his principles, must battle poverty, credit-grabbing colleagues, rejection, slander, manipulation of a devious but popular journalist, and finally imprisonment, to achieve his freedom to live and work his own way.
Principal Characters
Howard Roark: A brilliant but poor architect, and an individualist. He is a man who believes his work talks for him. Too bad then that the world is not fair and people will take credit for whatever they can. He goes through a lot of struggle and rejection, but later makes it big. This is his story—how the individualist fights the establishment.
Dominique Francon: The Yin to Roark’s Yang. Unlike Roark though, she is born to a rich father, a famous architect. She despises her father for his utter lack of passion and conviction for his work and his greed. An individualist herself, she’s also extremely arrogant, beautiful, and an art-reviewer famous in her own right.
Gail Wynand: A powerful man and a megalomaniac. But as another powerful character in the book (Ellsworth Toohey) points out, he is less "evolved" in his power hunger -- he is too conspicuous. A Publishing Czar among other things, he is used to having his way. He is ruthless, manipulative, and extremely vindictive. He falls in love with Dominique, only to have her within his reach and yet not.
Ellsworth Toohey: For me, this is the most brilliantly concocted character ever, and also the scariest. For Toohey is power-hungry, just like Wynand. But unlike Wynand, Toohey is subtle. He goes about controlling people in an apparently innocent but effectively deadlier way. He is intentionally poor, but has his tentacles in all major organizations and communities. He is regarded as an expert on Art and a selfless do-gooder, when the latter is just the opposite of what he is. One of his deadliest principles is this: he believes all genius must be nipped in the bud, because genius can think for itself and influence people, and hence cannot be controlled. So to kill genius, he weilds his power as an expert and proclaims it mediocre or downright bad. He has thus ruined the career of many an artist. Since he is seen as an authority on Architecture, he actually manages to pull down Roark’s genius (for a while) by this strategy.
Peter Keating: The weakest man in the book. Peter is the shallow and untalented charmer. He charms his way through school and work, making Roark do his school assignments first, and later his office assignments too. (Roark works for him apparently for money to survive, but given his ideals, this reviewer thinks he should have resisted.) But one day, Keating’s luck runs out. He marries Dominique out of lust and greed and breaks the heart of his longtime sweetheart. Marriage to Dominique shatters all the deception he has built around himself. He is forced to confront what he is—a pathetic weakling, who does not mind trading his wife’s body for a prestigious assignment. From then on, Keating becomes a wreck, eaten by his conscience, till even his over-ambitious mother regrets pushing her son towards something he was never meant to achieve.
While a lot of characters have been brilliantly conceptualised, the character of the protagonist himself seems a little flat. While Ayn Rand gives a more detailed background about Toohey and Wynand, we are left wondering about what kind of a past/childhood Roark must have had. Also, Roark, for most part of the book, comes across as devoid of feelings. He rarely says what he thinks (except in the end, when he is on a roll). His one strong emotion is his love for Dominique (and Architecture). Fittingly, Dominique too comes across as brilliant but cold.
Having said that, the book is easily one of the most unforgettable ones ever. Some will love the individuality and "integrity" of Roark; some (like this reviewer) may feel ambivalent about the deliberate lack of emotional touches to the protagonists; some will wholeheartedly embrace Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism (among other things, objectivism dictates that an individual's pursuit of happiness/rational self-interest should be his/her main goal); while some may denounce the book as promoting selfishness and egoism. Love or hate it, you cannot be unaffected by it.
All of Ayn Rand's books make one pause and think (Atlas Shrugged, We the Living), and this one is no different. If you are looking for light reading, this book won't cut it. It is extremely intense and readers will probably need frequent breaks in their reading. But by the end of the book, one almost feels like having lived a lifetime, and experienced myriad dimensions of it! Such is the intensity and power of the book.
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Would 'Anthem', by Ayn Rand be an appropriate book to give to an eight year-old?
He is thoroughly precocious, and understands a great many words at least implicitly. I would like a good reason for giving him the book. He's my nephew and my family is very anti-Randian. If you think it's a bad idea, please tell me why.
I'd only say it's a bad idea - as was previously stated above by another - because his family is Anti-Rand and I think they would question, with good reason, why you'd give their son a book by someone you know they disapprove of. At the same time, however, I don't think of `Anthem' as representative of Rand's philosophy - at least not like `Fountainhead' is - but rather as simply expressing the importance of individual freedom/creativity. Perhaps if you explained what the book is about to the parents they would be more understanding of the gift and your motivation in giving it. It's a great book and I think it'd be a fine gift which could encourage independent thinking instead of `group think' and bravery instead of compliance - and that's an important thing at any age. All the best to you. Hope it works out & you can give him the book.
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