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From: alw@houxo.UUCP (A.WIEMANN)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: My First Rand
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 16:42:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 16:42:38 1983
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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