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pilsner:

--- Quote from: Daniel on 26 Aug 2007, 16:34 ---Surely you jest?  Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are the bread and butter of late teenage wannabe-intellectuals everywhere.

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Mid teenage I think.  Most freshman I know of are already moving on to irony, magic realism, and pot, but not in that order.

imapiratearg:
I had to read Anthem for a class.  I pretty much missed all the political stuff in it, and rather I was interested in the romantic parts.  I like that much of it.  The rest was mildly intriguing as a story.  Had I been aware of the Objectivism I probably wouldn't have liked it as much.

Lines:
This thread makes me kind of happy to have never read Ayn Rand. Now I know I probably never will, and am still content.

yelley:
i read the fountainhead. i liked it because i liked the story and a couple of the characters. i didn't try to think about it and its deeper meaning though. i don't read much fiction, so when i do it is purely for fun, not for thinking.

KvP:

--- Quote from: yelley on 01 Sep 2007, 19:15 ---i read the fountainhead. i liked it because i liked the story and a couple of the characters. i didn't try to think about it and its deeper meaning though. i don't read much fiction, so when i do it is purely for fun, not for thinking.

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I've got a question about the Fountainhead, actually.

At some other forum, Rand came up and some people dismissed her because supposedly, in the Fountainhead, a female character is sexually assaulted but is written as though she enjoys it (an extremely submissive character) I don't know the context of the passage or if it's even there, but it seems pretty damning on its face.

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