The NY Post has lays been a bit of a rag, but who else would actually publish this!? The leftist leaning NY Times? It's beneath their dignity.

Well, I was a teenager in the Sixties, and the girls I knew who were reading it were older than me.

Considering that really tame stuff such as Catcher In the Rye and Lady Chatterly's Lover were about all that we kids had those days for titillation, I suppose that AS was enough to fit the bill.

Nowadays -- yeah. Pretty tame.

I do as well. Don't know why I haven't yet, either. That's next on the list then.

I barely noticed the sex scenes in Atlas...they were short and tame and infrequent.... Can't imagine that being a book to go to for that purpose. Maybe I'll notice the "weird" ones in FH.

I suppose that someone, somewhere, has counted the sex scenes in both. I wonder which one has more?

Both novels were written at a time when authors were just starting to experiment with sex scenes in their work. Nobody knew yet what would actually work. The sex scenes in Atlas seem (to me) to fit into the plot. The sex in Fountainhead seemed, at the time I read it, just plain weird.

However, I did not know at that time that Ayn Rand actually had a sexual ethos that she wanted to communicate; I thought it was just more of the same mindless, gratuitous sex that you see in pretty much everywhere except for the works of Robert A. Heinlein (who was clearly communicating a sexual ethos). And that stuff bores me.

I'm betting that most of the people (and strangely, most seem to have been girls) who read Atlas in high school did so for the sex scenes and never got the novel's message.

Hence my comment about The Fountainhead -- I don't remember the sex therein very well (because, remember, _reading_ that garbage bores me; I'd rather be... uh, never mind), but I have a vague recollection of there being more of it, or it being a lot weirder, or some such thing.

I know you weren't expecting such a cerebral response. Sorry about that, sometimes I just can't help it!

I'll get to it soon :)
Driving cliff roads SUCK! Being read to is nice though :)

it isn't developed as well as Atlas (from a philosophical point of view) but it is much better at building interesting characters that aren't so archetypal. I find Dominique fascinating, as well as Toohey. In general, I feel both Roark and Galt are somewhat undeveloped, unemotional characters. I think it is intentional. But Dominque and Toohey? there's some great character development right there. Motivations are strongly apparent without the omniscient definitions of who they are. there was still some of that in FH, but less. I often recommend people read the Fountainhead first before tackling AS. My husband reread it recently, and I enjoyed his reading to me outloud certain passages as I was careening down a very unforgiving long highway with no shoulders and plenty of curves and cliffs.

So...The Fountain Head has more sex scenes in it....and you didn't get much enjoyment out of it... That doesn't jive in Widget World...does it?

They're probably the ones who read Atlas for the sex scenes...

Some say it's better than Atlas....

I didn't get much enjoyment out of it. There are some great quotes / ideas in there though.

Perhaps if I read it again, I'll be able to appreciate it a bit more the 2nd time around.

I sooooo need to read that.

"Men differ in their virtues, if any, but they are alike in their vices" Wynand, Fountainhead

From what I saw of the New York Post when I lived there, I think that kind of sub-head is pretty standard for that paper.

It reminds me SO much of... trying to remember his name-- Gail Wynand's rag in The Fountainhead. I hope I got his name right.

Ooooh, that sounds... uh...

Never mind. Not going there.

"They’re on the dole — and watching the pole"
that was good

IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT CLANK YOUR CHAINS!!!

Precisely, and if isn't in their agenda manual for bleeding hearts, it must be EVIL.

He's going to lose is "funny" status too if he doesn't stop editing away his humor.

Da!

I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to be a little widget

You did it again!!! Ban editing!!!
Change it back...it was funnier the way it was!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL
You're a funny little widget!

Goodt. An extra ration of beets for you, Comrade.

Be sure to clank your chains at me if we end up in the same Gulag... for our Hooliganism...

I meant liberty, not right... I also meant hoopla not woopla. I will edit them...Citizen.