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A high school English subsitute teacher made me read the first chapter of this, and that was enough. Ridonculous. Foul. Melodramatic. Laughable. Evil.
I have a complicated relationship with this book. I certainly found the story to be interesting, the characters to be generally compelling, and the writing to be quite vivid. And Howard Roark delivers one of the great "oh no he di'n't!" lines in all of literature to Ellsworth Toohey in a scene that actually had me both laughing and cheering out loud. But Ayn Rand does rather bash a reader over the head with the Giant Hammer of Objectivist Philosophy, doesn't she? No one ever called Rand "subtle,
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This book has been on my list of "to read" since high school. I never quite got around to it though. So I decided this year that I would try to alternate between fun reads and more complicated ones. I didn't have to worry about this one being boring though. Above all, this is a pretty great story. It kept me interested through the whole book, wanting to know the final outcome of the love story and also what becomes of some of the other characters. Howard Roark, the leading man of the book, is so
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Sep 27, 2007
Sabrina Smallwood
marked it as to-read
Jul 18, 2013
Melissa
marked it as to-read
Jan 03, 2014
Aubrey
marked it as to-read
