Cody Brown’s Reviews > The Fountainhead > Status Update

Rand is good at making full faceted characters.

I can never tell if I'm supposed to think Roark is an asshole or not. Rank makes it clear that Keating and Toohey are supposed to be hated, but with Roark I'm not sure what Rand's intent is

As much as I loathe Rands politics she is a good writer. She does manage to write extremely rich characters, when they're not being paper thin caricatures Rand wants to setup to knock down.

Yes we are definitely supposed to empathize with Roark. Shown by the fact that new female lead is lusting after him with the passion of suburban mom who just read Fifty Shades of Gray.

I get the feeling Rand wants me to feel for Roark. That he's the misunderstood "great man" but the entire time I just think he's a huge dick who refuses to work with anyone.

Story is starting to grow on me

Interesting book. I'm enjoying her writing. Main character is a dick. Haven't gotten much of her libertarian shit yet, just a few sprinklings of Great Man shit.