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Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". I'm about halfway into it right now and am really enjoying the story so far. Especially after reading all of the architecture arguments on this board.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". I'm about halfway into it right now and am really enjoying the story so far. Especially after reading all of the architecture arguments on this board.

I always knew there was an objectivist in you, struggling to get out.

Self-interest and capitalism rule!

Recently finished the Fountainhead. Rockin' book, makes me wish to be an architect.

Just finished "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk, interesting book. Fun read.

Just started in on "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter.

Mainly, I'm looking at Howard Roark and wondering how a character can be so sincere, but so distant. That Keating kid's a total punk. I haven't completely read into what Rand is getting at. It would be interesting to hear some ideas though.

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Well I leave all the remedial reading for Bob Pollard.

I just read Arther Koestler, thieves in the night. I great book set in the 1930's about the situation between the jews and arabs and the formation of the jewish settlements. It made me realise that it was an unwinable situation and the British really fucked it up.

I didnt know that so many jewish ships containing refugees were rejected by so many countries either. If I were Jewish I would probably have a massive chip on my shoulder over that.


Oh and I read Balzac, Pere Goriot. A really fine book surprisingly fast paced and easy to read. Its a great story. I kept meaning to check if anyone had made it into a film.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Mainly, I'm looking at Howard Roark and wondering how a character can be so sincere, but so distant. That Keating kid's a total punk. I haven't completely read into what Rand is getting at. It would be interesting to hear some ideas though.

It clears up as the book progresses. It is odd how the sections are named for different players. When I read it I found the book to be very timeless, you could imagine it taking place today, the future, the past. Not many references to the year (1920's) in the book and it doesn't get too far into the things that would seem anachronistic now.

At the end of my copy it has her notes about the characters and how she wants them to be viewed.

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Have read both of those, both good reads.
Though the second half of Jihad tends to start dragging…

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Jihad is a good one…it got a little repetitive in theme in some parts, but overall, enlightening and engaging!

Currenlty reading Seabiscuit (I know, mass-media, bandwagonesque, but it's a good book, damnit!) also Posessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker and How Proust Can Change Your Life

Need to return to Markie Tom Wolf's A Man in Full…finished a few weeks ago after dawdling…very entertaining read!

also reading this, fascinating, uh, really

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Recently finished Paul Auster's "New York Trilogy," the first story of which was masterful. Also just completed Andrei Bely's classic "St. Petersburg" and am working on a history of the Wars of the Roses since I know jack about the English monarchy.

I was really suckered in by Ayn Rand's novels when I first read them, but after a little time I realized her characters were so two-dimensional and her plots were just blatant vehicles for her agenda. BUT, an entertaining read for sure!

Originally posted by Celeste:

Need to return to Markie Tom Wolf's A Man in Full…finished a few weeks ago after dawdling…very entertaining read!

It is a great read. It would say its one of the best things I have ever read. But everyone seems to read it real slow. I guess its pretty long.

currently reading "Classic Baseball Stories".

"Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk - not as great as his other novel (my favorite), "Invisible Monsters" but still thought provoking and out-there.

"Lysistrata" by Aristophanes - I always wanted to read this play, and it's funny as hell. It only takes a day to read, even less. There's nothing better than a Greek Battle of the Sexes.

I want to read "Snobbery" - my sister and friends have read it and loved it. However I haven't had time to get my hands on it. Anyone here read it?

Originally posted by SueAndNotU:
I was really suckered in by Ayn Rand's novels when I first read them, but after a little time I realized her characters were so two-dimensional and her plots were just blatant vehicles for her agenda…

I agree, but after a while don't even find her writing entertaining…it's just too, too blatant…

and Bob Pollard, that book DOES look interesting!

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:

Originally posted by Celeste:

Need to return to Markie Tom Wolf's A Man in Full…finished a few weeks ago after dawdling…very entertaining read!

It is a great read. It would say its one of the best things I have ever read. But everyone seems to read it real slow. I guess its pretty long.

yeah, and I like to read a few things at once…this book was so cool, though, it wove together so many neat little subplots and then had the whole Stoics thing…now I want to read the Stoics