More like coward roark

[Ryko]

Yeah, I said it.

[Ryko]

You failed me for the last time, e key.

[Howard Roark]

I really do not understand, maybe once I've read all the threads

[Conrad]

This reminds me

At Applebee's trivia about a month ago, one of the questions was "The character Howard Roark appears in which Ayn Rand novel?"

and I was like FUCK because I really should have known it.

[Howard Roark]

The Fountainhead, aka the only one of her books that reads like a novel and not a string of diatribes borrowed and plagiarized and bastardized from Nietzsche strung together by strained dialogue

oh and if you think Atlas Shrugged is bad, you should read Pillers of Creation by Terry Goodkind -- that stupid f*ck thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize Ayn Rand after she plagiarized Nietzsche ahahahaha

[Airenn]

The Fountainhead, aka the only one of her books that reads like a novel and not a string of diatribes borrowed and plagiarized and bastardized from Nietzsche strung together by strained dialogue

oh and if you think Atlas Shrugged is bad, you should read Pillers of Creation by Terry Goodkind -- that stupid f*ck thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize Ayn Rand after she plagiarized Nietzsche ahahahaha

whoa whoa whoa

PillArs of Creation, part of the Sword of Truth series? How did he plagiarize? I am intrigued.

[Howard Roark]

man lol, read any passage where he talks about man's ability to create and how no one can take that away from him and BLA BLA BLA BLA

I am truly to lazy and unwilling to go through that awful piece of writing again to mine for a proper passage but I am willing to bet if you googled Terry Goodkind and Ayn Rand or Objectivism you will get results

perhaps plagiarize is a strong word but if you've ever had an idiotic argument with your mother after she's read some Oprah Book Club garbage and she is try to spew out what she read but clearly not getting it right and it's useless to argue with her.. that is what reading that book was like for me

[Howard Roark]

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth...-Goodkind.aspx

[Howard Roark]

The Randian Fantasies of Terry Goodkind

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[Qalbert]

I'm reading book 5 now.
>_>

[Howard Roark]

OH MY GOD HAS KALHALN DISAPPEARED UNDER IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES? LITTERALLY FKING IMPOSSIBLE? HOW THE FKING FK WILL HE GET OUT OF IT THIS TIME? PERHAPS THE AUTHOR WILL CHANGE THE GODDAMN PARAMETERS HE WAS WORKING WITH SO NOW THE IMPOSSIBLE IS SUDDENLY POSSIBLE

WAS IT IT SOMETHING I MISSED? IS THE AUTHOR MORE CLEVER THAN ME? WERE THERE CAREFULLY PLANTED HINTS AS TO THE OUTSOME? SHOULD YOU HAVE SEEN IT COMING?

NO

HE JUST FKING CHANGED EVERYTHING SO THE ENDING COULD WORK, SO GODDAMN AWFUL I HATE THAT MAN SO BAD

[Howard Roark]

they should really make a TV show out of this tripe

[Qalbert]

Yeah I'm not impressed with the style, but nothing better atm to read, and it's fun in a light hearted sort of way.

[Qalbert]

they should really make a TV show out of this tripe

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[Cantih]

Now I don't feel quite so bad about not reading it.

[Qalbert]

that's what got me into the books actually, saw them all at a thriftstore and was like...uhh ok? 25-50 cents each, lol.

[isladar]

if you want amazing philosophy + fantasy bits, read this and cry about how every book series now sucks in comparison

[Cantih]

I've been hearing Bakker's name a lot the past few weeks. Last time something like that happened, I ended up picking up Snow Crash.

[Howard Roark]

if you want amazing philosophy + fantasy bits, read this and cry about how every book series now sucks in comparison

Incomplete series;;;;

also, since you mentioned a Canadian fantasy author I really gotta big up Guy Gavriel Kay and his The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy (often sold in a single volume as well)

[isladar]

Seriously can't recommend those books highly enough. Epic story plus actual characterization, I've reread them about a hojillion times.