[net.books] My First Rand

alw@houxo.UUCP (A.WIEMANN) (10/04/83)

I thought I would see what the brouhaha about Rand was, so I bought a
copy of "The Fountainhead" for myself.  After >200 pages I could not force
myself to read any further.  Her writing is poor, her characterizations,
shallow, and her plot, static.  I did not find her ideas particularly new
or profound, but that may be a reflection on myself, not her.  I will really
have to *want* to read the book to pick it up ever again.  As Leonard Malden
(sp?) would say, "This book rates a 3."

Alan Wiemann, AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (whew!), Holmdel, NJ