May 13, 2001 07:30 PM
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AynRand's books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are the best selling introductions to the ideas of personal freedom and of the free market.
The book The Fountainhead is my all time favourite book besides Atlas Shrugged. It shaped me into a new person with a complete metamorphosis in thinking process and behavior. Few writers convey an irresistible ferocity of convictions as AynRand does in this book.
On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. Howard Roark, a man of ideas and rebellion in the world of architecture, struggles through the years of his career, coming into contact with society's critics, wanna-bes and financial overlords. Through his life he never compromises his ideals for that of the masses, despite peer pressure and financial disaster.
Howard Roark epitomizes AynRand's ideal man according to her philosophy of Objectivism. He strives to be the best man he can be, despite what others think or do to prevent him. He refuses to compromise his ideals in any way, even to foster a more cooperative setting. He believes that people can work together only if each is responsible for a specific part of the whole and if there is no overlap in the process. AynRand has a lot to say about the strength and nobility of the human spirit and the independence of the human mind.
If you're looking for a book to help you look inward and question the ways of this crazy world we live in - pick up this book... It makes you ask some very simple questions of yourself which you come to find are not so easy to answer... A Wonderful Book...
