It left me speechless!
Once I regained the power of speech, I thought that this was just about the best review of the book that I ever encountered. The criticisms at the end show a less than really deep understanding of the book or Objectivism, but on the level of a review, they were valid points open for further discussion. Even with all the jargon it holds up pretty well.

"What you see is what you git". Pretty concise characterization of Objectivism!

I loved this video!!
"She thinks his work is off the chain."
"Girl got a serious hater streak to her. "
"All this mess is b/c both them can't stand how they can stay so legit in a world full of posers and fakers."
"[Wynand] ain't tripped about how everybody else sees him. He wants power over them. But that brother soon recognizes that if you spend all your life trying to posses others, it's your ass that's ends up getting owned!"

Regarding the end, I don't think Rand is saying you should never help someone. Roark doing his own thing despite what others think may have saved the suicidal young man who sees his building. That's different from Roark pitying him. Cheryl in AS was in that depressed state and ran into people for whom pity was a virtue. The young man in Fountainhead was fortunate to run into Roark instead.

I know at least one high school student appreciates it. :)
The slang was an interesting addition and in some ways made the synopsis better than a pure summary.

Hilarious! Good grasp of plot and characters. Now what form of English is this? He obviously liked it a lot and threw in those negs at the end just to keep his creds among his peeps.

Excellent. Best synopsis I've seen. Of course, growing up in The D (although a person of pallor) I can identify with the man. I suspect "in real life" he is probably quite intelligent and well-spoken...good stuff.

A very interesting presentation. Perhaps it will get some people to read the book.

Very interesting take! I loved it!

Thanks for link, Khalling.

It was an excellent summary and review.

I bookmarked this and will be showing my kids this

Haha! Thanks for sharing!

Great.

I think Thug was somewhat mistaken when he
talked about Ayn Rand's view of "pity". The pity
experienced in that case was in its pure form, with
no respect intermingled with it. Roark is not in-
capable of generosity or compassion; he feels it,
and acts upon it, in regard to Steven Mallory,
because Mallory is a true victim. Mallory does
not deserve the bad things that have happened
to him; Keating brought his own crap on himself.
In regard to Roark's "rape" of Dominique
(which shocked the h--l out of me when I first
read the book), Thug omits the fact that Domin-
ique actually did commit a physical assault on
him previously; when she asked him why he
did not come to the house to do the repair job
(he had sent Pasquale Orsini instead), he re-
turned a mocking answer,whereupon she struck
him with a stick. (Still, besides the fact that he
took the law into his own hands, the retribution
was shockingly disproportionate).

I read a remark in Letters of Ayn Rand,
where she answered a letter-writer's question
that wasn't Roark guilty of violating Dominique's
personal rights by saying no, that "it was a sym-
bolic action that Dominique all but invited'; and
that he actually did not rape Dominique.

Elswhere in the same collection she said
(this is a memory quote) "Some people think
that the lesson to be derived from The Foun-
tainhead is that a man should force himself on
a woman, and that she would like him for it..."
which implies that that is not what she meant,
and that she did not endorse aggressive crimin-
ality.--

Thug says that sticking by your own prin-
ciples is hard. Indeed it is. But I think that his
synopsis of the book is, for the most part, ac-
curate.