huh.. fountainhead.. now i m too amateur of a reader to write th review of such an epic .. jus got one fact from google .. The book was rejected by 12 publishers before a young editor at the Bobbs-Merrill Company publishing house wired to the head office, "If this is not the book for you, then I am not the editor for you" (i.e., he threatened to quit).. well.....'life's like that'.. wel undoubtedly its the most amazing work i ve read in my life!! .. ya it is.. i felt this bcoz not only is it a book which can shake ur psychology but how it is actually framed .. the way ayn rand has presented the whole story is th real icing on the cake.. the self contradictin sentences used were mind boglin( what to get outta em!!) .. the book speaks of the 2 kinds of ppl in this world.. one who is in all of us( most of us i shud say.. for th followers of howark roark :) .. ) .. who is th commonplace man .. who yields himself, his self respect for his progress and for name n fame , one who works to live(peter keating).... and the other man (howard roark) , who lives to work , who lives for his self respect, who creates himself in this world, who is not a copier, not any second-hander . Ayn rand has based her novel on architecture and uses it as a symbol to depict life and the way the central characters live it. The book stresses on ego and says that self respect and egotism are a must for human progress . The dialogues between roark n wynand n between roark and dominique are enthralling. However , even till the end of the novel it was really diffi to understand y the name 'Fountainhead' . i believe that ' man(like roark) is the creator (the source .. the head) of everything ' . still not very sure about y this name.
something that i disliked about it? jus can say some scene descriptions whice were too much for me to visualize
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keep blogging dude...why dya quit??? i will read it for sure...(only if u read mine)
The human ego is the fountainhead of all progress. Hence the name. It is dedicated to the ego.
guess i should pick it up next ..
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