Has anybody read the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand? What do you think about it and its philosophy?

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It’s an old snooze that tends to appeal to undergrads. If you find an adult who relies on it for the underpinnings of his philosophy of life, you have discovered a case of arrested development.

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