I just re-read it a few weeks ago, and I have recently watched the movies again.

Having read it first, the movies really don't do justice to the book, but then I know it wouldn't be easy to put all the details in the movie and in the order that and wrote it.

Do we really have to read and re-read what we are well aware of once your read it the first time?
I really did enjoy the DVD movies which reinforced what I read back as a senior in HS in 1969. That teacher would be tarred and feathered today!

Just asked my wife, who read both books during a high school summer vacation, who I thought preferred The Fountainhead. She said that she enjoyed both however a slight edge to Atlas. I own an original printing of both. I have read Atlas many times and The Fountainhead perhaps twice. Atlas preferred here!

It's been a few years. I have SO MANY things to read that I likely won't pick it up again, though I am certain there is still un-mined value in it for me.

Considering that I read it probably 4 or 5 times already, and that I was frustrated/verging on angry at what I saw missing in the movie, I figure I have most of the "gist" of it by now, though there's still more to learn, just as I mentioned in my other comment.

I have about 2 hours per day max, with some exceptions, that I can reasonably spend reading. I have to mete it out among all the books I haven't read yet, so time for AS is going to be hard to come by.

Two years ago. For the fourth time.

I always wonder the same thing. I keep thiking....why didn't I notice this awesome idea before?

I read AS just a few months ago--again. Also watched the movie -- again. It never gets old or stale with all that's erupting out there. I find another hidden gem or three each time. BTW, glad to be back after too long away from active participation.

I agree

I think that is a great idea. The parallels are there for sure.

Last time was the audio book on 50 cds, about a year ago. I'm actually, to my surprise, thinking about reading the hard copy book again soon... I see so much of the story in current events that I'm drawn back to it...

My own informal poll then: which did you prefer? The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged?

Yes, you probably would benefit from reading them again. I always discover something new (profound) each time I re-read them. I don't know if it is due to the fact that I am older and with different life experiences, I see something different in the text.

I found it six years ago, right after I found Fountainhead. Now some plot elements of the two stories get confused in my mind. I would benefit from reading it again.

I have the movies, too, and a copy of The Fountainhead with Patricia O'Neal and Gary Cooper. I don't have We, the Living though.

Do you have the Italian movie We, the Living ?

I even have the movies I - 3

Mine is a Kindle. No errors. Just checked.

Well, those typos are not in the original copy or other copies I have. I only noticed them in my Nook edition. While I bought the novel for my Nook when I first got the e-reader, I have never read it on the Nook until now.

Generally, I recognize typos and shrug some of them off, but because it was so prevalent throughout the novel, it was really annoying.

Correction. That was among a number of re-reads over the years. I don't recall the WAy-ne or MAy. I probably shrugged them off as typos.

You read it last week? That is fantastic.
I understand the difference in May and Shall, but Rand uses the word frequently enough that it was apparent that the capital A stood out. The same for the Wayne-Falkland, which is used throughout the novel.
One of my biggest observations is how often the various characters SHRUGGED, SHRUG, or are SHRUGGING in the novel. With my Nook I could highlight it, and I didn't even start highlighting until I was a few days into the book.

Last week! "Shall is mandatory". "May" is optional. In a City Ordinance anyway!

By the way, since I was reading it with my Nook, I noticed among other things that the Wayne-Falkland and the word 'may' were almost always written as WAy ne-Falkland and mAy.