EVERYONE I know said they like this book…..but NO ONE could tell me what they liked about the book…!
Well just for the record I HATED the book….I though it did not make much sense….it is 680 pages of convoluted nonsense…..now everyone who I cribbed about the book to while reading it told me why don’t you just drop it…..why take the trouble to read it if you are hating it so much…..well my answer to them was that let me just see how bad it gets….and since everyone who have supposedly completed reading the book has liked it there must be something about it….and and went on to read the entire 680 pages…!
The book has 4 characters and each of them is weirder that the others…its like a competition…who can be more arbid senseless and weird and at the end of 680 pages….the competition is tough….one is worse than the other…
1.Peter Keating- this guy is plain stupid…..god knows why he does not marry Cathreine the girl who is loves….
2.Howard Roark – This guy is kind of interesting…but very extreme….there is nothing in the 680 pages about his background..and why is is what he is…
3.Dominique- She is the weirdest of them all……no sorry…there is stiff competition among the four for the title of the weirdest…..but this chick is the pits….she is supposedly in love with Howard Roark….sleeps with him…but also does everything possible to destroy him! WTH!!??
4.Ellsworth Tooley- This guy was the pits…he has some stupid trip in life which says he can control the world….he writes….and he believes that he has the capability to generate public opinion…and the lousiest plays/ books/buildings are given rave review and people who don’t like it are made to feel stupid…
Well overall…..stupid senseless book….with maybe very few concepts somewhere in between made sense…..but since everyone says it is a wonderful book..people who don’t like it a afraid to say don’t like it for the fear or sounding stupid and out of the crowd……but I am not going to do that…I am going to say exactly what I think about the book….lets see if there are other who agree with me…but were just scared to say anything bad about the legendary Fountain Head by Ayn Rand!
Ps: The book is also about individual against collective….so following those principle…I am that individual who says I HATE THE BOOK….when everyone around me talk about how much they loved it!
3 Comments
August 14, 2009 at 11:32 am
haha…good review
Even I heard great things about Fountainhead, but when I skimmed through it in the library, I knew it was just not my cup of tea.
All books are not for everyone. After all, we all have our individual tastes, right?
August 25, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Same feelings. Hated, absolutely hated it. I was so angry that I just threw it off after some 250 pgs. I plan to find all people who highly recommended it and give them my piece my mind.
October 18, 2009 at 7:18 am
I didn’t hate it but didn’t like it either.. atlas shrugged is better