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**UvjqTVVC** · 08-28-2006, 08:00 AM

[quote="rajasaranam"]

Some of my friends too have been deeply affected by her books and discussed this with me that they cant see things as normal as they were previously.
Her usage of words and style of narrative is very powerful and contagious. Read it as a fiction and never try to apply it in your life.

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I have to admit that I read the book when I was too young(8th std)and that it was my first novel even before R.K.Narayanan.It affected me so much that I got very deppressed about not being a Roark.The 'second-hand' image of Keating and the loser image of Wynand was all too much for me then.I didn't realise that the Roark-Dominique romance was so cliched.Even then Dominique is the one character I hated so much.
The one tragic charater who still disturbs me is Gail Wynand, b'coz we can see so many ppl like him,ppl who save their daydreams for some sleepless nights

Rand's obsession for genius has fast spread consiously or unconsiously(all those health drink & memory tablet ads)and is breeding many Keatings.
Atleast I got some good medicines for this like Jeyamohan & Dostovsky!

08-28-2006, 08:00 AM	#23
UvjqTVVC Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	[quote="rajasaranam"] Some of my friends too have been deeply affected by her books and discussed this with me that they cant see things as normal as they were previously. Her usage of words and style of narrative is very powerful and contagious. Read it as a fiction and never try to apply it in your life. quote] I have to admit that I read the book when I was too young(8th std)and that it was my first novel even before R.K.Narayanan.It affected me so much that I got very deppressed about not being a Roark.The 'second-hand' image of Keating and the loser image of Wynand was all too much for me then.I didn't realise that the Roark-Dominique romance was so cliched.Even then Dominique is the one character I hated so much. The one tragic charater who still disturbs me is Gail Wynand, b'coz we can see so many ppl like him,ppl who save their daydreams for some sleepless nights Rand's obsession for genius has fast spread consiously or unconsiously(all those health drink & memory tablet ads)and is breeding many Keatings. Atleast I got some good medicines for this like Jeyamohan & Dostovsky!
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