Which one of Ayn Rand's novels is your favorite?

Question

...and why


thanks

Answer 1

The Fountainhead.

Answer 2

I've only read "Atlas Shrugged" and that was enough. She used "stress" on every third page. Yeah, a real top class writer.

By what right does some Yank multimillionaire allow most of the population of the earth to be killed over some internal political dispute, if I'm remembering the book correctly? People in Mauritius, New Zealand and most of the other countries of the world would probably have never heard of "John Galt" and his enemies, or the "heroine" of the book.

Ayn Rand was a ratbag, probably worse than Germaine Greer. I can't believe that anyone is still reading her rubbish. At best she was a one-trick pony.

Answer 3

Hello, Ayn Rand's first major novel ,finished in 1933,whose theme was the brutality of life under communist rule in Russia,
is like a shot heard round the world.A small novel but so explosively powerful that its message can be applied to every country in the world today. Maybe it was the young woman,Kira,
wearing a white wedding gown to blend into the snow covered ground as she tries to escape from the communist guards and barbed wired fences and the last scene we see is blood flowing from something in the snow, maybe a fox, as the guards fire their guns.She won because she did escape if only to die moments later. The story has hidden inuendoes and symbolisms in every sentence. I have included some further information about the book and the author. The book makes one think about freedom and the struggle to be maintain that freedom.


http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/rand.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_Living

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)

Answer 4

The Fountainhead - basically I like this novel because I can relate to the character about principles... and not selling out to whatever happens to be popular at the time. I still collect vinyl LP records... ya know things like that. If you listen to Led Zep IV on CD with digital remastering you completely have been robbed becuase on vinyl you hear all the subtle edits and pans and overdubs that have been taken off by the remastering.

things like that, ya know?

maybe not.... LOL

Answer 5

I'd have to go with Altas Shrugged as well, sorry to hear it's gong to be slaughtered by Hollywood...I liked it because of it's relevance, If you read it now you may see alot of similarities between how some of the characters think and how alot of people think now....and back in the day it was written it was almost considered science fiction (from what I am told by sources who were there and read it then).

Answer 6

I only read Atlas Shrugged which was awesome. apparently a movie is going to be made starring Angelina Jolie.

Answer 7

"Atlas Shrugged" because it spoke to me when I read it back in the day. The characters are heroic in their own ways.