Fountainhead

[vileone]

I finally finished The Fountainhead a few weeks ago (since then I've been listening to Neverwhere, which I've enjoyed immensely). As usual, I find Rand often infuriating, sometimes brilliant, and impossible to walk away from.

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Re: thanks!

[vileone]

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are of course the real canonical books, especially AS which she considers her magnum opus. I liked The Fountainhead better, though. Better story. They are tomes. Rand makes me look terse. I've been a huge fan of the audiobooks. The unabridged versions are read very well by Christopher Hurt

Re: thanks!

[badger]

While I believe that moral codes are not all created equal, I disagree with her premise that there is exactly one that is correct, or that any deviation from her moral code is evil.

One of my favorite titles for anything, *ever*, was a zine I used to read titled "The Other True Way".

Re: thanks!

[ndkid]

Hm... can you expound on your last thought some? Specifically, don't differences in moral codes "rightness" imply that, given a finite set of moral codes, one of them has the most "rightness"? Wouldn't that then imply that following any moral code but the most "right" one is more "evil", assuming some inverse correlation between "right" and "evil"?