Ayn Rand

Book : Fountainhead
Author : Ayn Rand
Rating : 3/5



















Book : Atlas Shrugged
Author : Ayn Rand
Rating : 2/5

I wouldn't be exagarating at all If I say it is the most over-rated literary piece and most over-the-top way of presenting a flawed philosophy ever.

First basic flaw of the book is obviously the redundancy. Any intelligent person will get what Rand is trying to say, her ideas, within first 200 pages of the book. They were all crystal clear. But no, that was just the beginning. Rand then goes on to write 800 more pages about the same thing over and over again. Presenting them in 1001 different ways. Giving us a hundred more incidents of how the 'moochers' are totally incompetent while the genius 'producers' are the real saviors of this world.

Which brings me to the biggest flaw with the book - the characters. First she creates the set of elitist, who have everything perfect right from the facial expression to their intelligence and workaholic nature, while the 'looters' are total idiots who wouldn't know how to add even if given a calculator. The Elitists are created to be the heroes who are driving the world forward, the intellects without whom the world would collapse, and amazingly ALL of these 'producers' share the same ideas about the virtue of selfishness. Their enemies are all incompetent lazy-ass sheeps who are ALL sad, depressing, scared and idiots. Wow. How very convenient of the author. I could better have watched a Rajnikanth flick, it would have been more believable. Now coming to the 'masterplan' to crush the world to pieces, to 'stop the motor of the world', the plan looked to be straight out of a comic book, it was childish to say the least - Uhh ok, I am a genius and I want to destabilize the world, what do I do? Yeah that's right I will assemble all the other superheroes and we shall hide behind the mountains. Hilarious. I can bet DC Comic executives must have approached Rand after reading Atlas Shrugged.

Come on Ms. Rand you don't like Socialism, we get it , move on. But there is no moving on this book, she just stays put. But she is an influential writer, I can give that to her. How else do you explain the number of people who have been mislead by this so called philosophy? That is why the book was able to get 2 stars.

I liked Fountainhead, I could see what Rand was trying to present there. But Atlas Shrugged was just over the top with it's overly melodramatic characters and plot. I am not just trashing the book because I don't like her ideas, I would never do that to any book, but I also don't like the lazy way she created the plot and characters at her own convenience in order to prove a flawed philosophy.