/lit/ - Literature

Extremely mediocre writing. Skip the scene about the dog sex, thank me later.

It's better than Atlas Shrugged of course. But Rand has really dreadful prose, so prepare for that

>>17743370
>dog sex
that's quite a white women's thing heh

Slides

>>17743387
>>17743370
Did we read the same book? Are you sure you're not confusing her ideas with their delivery? Granted, she occasionally sinks to proselytizing, but when she avoids that (which is most of the time, in this book at least) she writes beautifully.

>>17743417
She grew up in Russia, so she's more into rape, actually.

>muh blueprints
>my model houses
>muh trainlines

Is there any other author who is as authentically autistic as Rand?

>>17743556
DES GUSTA'ANG

>>17743362
Metallic characters living out the ideological conceptions of Ayn Rand. Stylistically it's actually an interesting book.

>>17743362
>be me
>like architecture
>everyone telling me to read the fountainhead
>read it
>liked it a lot
>haven't read a rand book since
it's good, definitely worth reading
the characters are well developed and the dialogue is great (she was a screenwriter so she does a great job of conveying emotion through dialogue)
keating's character has stuck with me over the years, and the story has a lot to say (if you're younger like when I read it) about self-actualization and the individual's role in art
I liked it a lot, ignore the hate it's a decently quick read

>>17743569
Literally, she collected stamps. I can't imagine a more autistic pastime.

"I'm going to do it" he said with his square-jawed face.
"I am going to remove the handrails on the external staircases!"
The slovenly, sexually impotent members of the municipal council gasped irrationally.
"B-b-but w-what about the safety of the r-residents" sputtered on particularly gelatinous board member whose obesity and asymmetric facial features betrayed his crypto-Marxist beliefs. Beliefs that squirmed like black maggots in his rotting soul.

>>17743607
This is actually my board

>>17743680
Get the fuck out of my thread

>>17743362
>What am I in for?
Rape. Boring rape.

>>17743362

If "You Will Never Be A Man" were a person, Rand was probably it. And, oh boy, it she was because not only did Rand make no attempt whatsoever to embrace femininity, Rand was unable... And read that again, unable to hide it in these masturbatory tomes that have percolated through the scythe of time like the drops of jizz that spurt from the legal-yet-adolescent penises of men born in white and ostensibly middle to upper middle class families. Go back and read it again. Unable. If a book is a lesson, hers teaches the virtues of never picking up the pen, or the... Lenovo or something you choose to store your 12pt Helvetica of subvocalized self-therapy.

Rape, the chick loves it though so it's ok. Basically happens then we aren't bored with another 200 pages of exposition on the girl's emotional turmoil and pain, just happens and she loves being taken by a chad, so it's ok.

>>17743740
She loved masculinity which is actually a breath of fresh air. Where do you even get that from in culture today?

>>17743678
A symptom of autism.
A man in a woman’s body.
I bet she had a bad case of penis envy too if I do say so myself.
>>17743759
Because she probably wanted to be a man. She felt vulnerable as a woman because of sexual trauma in her childhood.

>>17744060
Waits for

>>17743607
>the characters are well developed
i like the book but this is an overstatement, the characters are one-dimensional representations of her ideas

>>17744060
Leonard Peikoff, a student and friend of hers, once told a story about a conversation they had about masculinity. 'You love the masculine so much, would you ever want to be a man?' he asked. She cringed; 'Well why not?' he replied. She answered, 'Because then I would have to love a woman.'

>>17744164
Based.

>>17743551
I agree. Rand has really underrated prose and rhetoric. I think she overdoes it in Atlas but the Fountainhead is her at her peak.

She also has interesting and sympathetic antagonists/antiheroes here in Keating and Wynand, and Toohey is an actually interesting villain. Compare to the grovelling retards from Atlas and you'll see the difference.

I think it's her best novel and a great one. It does have probably the single meanest excerpt in literature, which is when she describes Roark's building being turned into a shelter for retarded children.

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>>17743362
shit

HEART LESS

<4

>>17743362
History’s greatest romance novel

>>17745250
It really ought to be a novella, however