The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover) by Ayn Rand Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
Book Review: My Guru - Fountainhead.
Summary: 5 Stars
Fountainhead is not just a book. Its the truth.
Life at its rawest form, man at his best and worst. Its like 'in-your-face'. Its daring to be. Its a book which made me feel "This is the book which makes it easier for me to live amongst all this hypocrisy".
Fountainhead shows us of what we could be , but strangely we are unaware or ignorant or plain stupid to not understand of what we could be, of what we could achieve. People would rather follow than lead, they think its easier to compromise. Seriously, its the hardest thing to do. Three cheers for the Achievers of this world.Book Review: Please, Please, Please Don't Read This Book!!
Summary: 1 Stars
You may really hate what you see...
Frankly, this is not a book for you. That is, it's not for you unless you've made one important insight...
You see, if you plan to read this book you may be in for a surprise. Kind of like the surprise of a review that you're in for considering my rating.
I loved this book, and it started, for me, a roller-coaster journey of emotion & thought from my earliest and darkest memories as a squirming tot, right through my last cup o' java.
You can have no idea of what's in store for you before you begin this trip. This applies to all of life's travels, after all "life's what happens while you're busy making other plans."
And this novel is no different, but with a special twist. It will be unlike anything you've ever read before.
You honestly will open the windows of you're mind into either a chasm-like, fearful place of fog, into which will shine the diffusive rays of sun, illuminating all that's inside, forcing you to examine everything it holds, and become horrified and turn away from the dark terrors it contains, or into a place where you'll find soltice, companionship, and a peace (and I mean that) unlike any which can be imagined or meditated upon.
You may be amazed by the things you've accepted to be true, or you may realize that incredible feeling of justification in the knowledge that at least one other person in the world has experienced the same things as you have.
Someone has felt the same disgust in the blind leading the blind devotion of society at large, and has been repulsed at each and every sniveling boot-licking gesture of those who live to please others, and never themselves.
Upon stumbling across this world contained in The Fountainhead, my personal journey became populated by the idea of hope.
Hope that there must be another - that I am not the only one the world coming to these inevitable conclusions about life. It's amazing how freeing that can be...just the idea that I might some day be able to share these feelings with at least one other person.
I'm not saying this book will change you're life.
Not at all. I will say that it will force you to examine it.
It may justify, repulse, comfort, or terrify you.
But I can promise that it will never leave you. By ordinary standards, this has no business being considered a novel. I know of no equal sharing such a description.
Please E-mail me if you've read it because of this, and if it's been enjoyable you'll want to read Atlas Shrugged next (a book I consider equal to The Book of Revelation - for the western world). And I would also encourage you to get you're hands on the many books in which Ayn Rand has written articles on many current topics, but with a viewpoint unlike any the popular media have the ego to spin.Book Review: Powerful and thought-provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
The world is divided into two classes of people- those who have read "The Fountainhead" and those who have not.This is a book about truth and one man's struggle to rise above it.Through the central character Howard Roark,the ideal man, Ayn Rand gives us a philosophical treatise,one which dares to delve into our souls.This book will stay with you at every point in your life, forcing you to rethink every action and be true to yourself.This is a book you will reread every year and be amazed at the insights it provides you."The Fountainhead" is a solution-provider for the inner chaos of your mind.This is a book about the beauty of living and how to attain it in your life.Ayn Rand is an artist who blends philosophy with a storyline as compelling and gripping as any modern potboiler.
SUCHITRA GOVINDBook Review: The colors of The Fountainhead.
Summary: 5 Stars
Have you ever experienced going outside at 4:00 am
to look at the morning stars and at the sunrise?
The feeling given to me by that moment was one of totality (of self). It changed my life because I did it for me, because I wanted to experience it.
If you have ever written a song, written a poem or done anything just for you and enjoyed it, then you have felt the essence of this book.Book Review: The Virture of Selfishness
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you find yourself often ridiculed by your peers for being selfish? Do they say you don't feel enough love for your fellow man? If that is the case read The Fountainhead and understand why selfishness, not their weak Aristotelean selflessness, is the height of human goodness. Also, understand the role you play in the epic battle of the creator v. the second hander. Read The Fountainhead today and stop being a second hander and start being selfish.