The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead is a fairly long novel by Ayn Rand.

Apparently I'm not the only person who has read it, and everyone I have talked to has loved it. In this, I have to agree with them.

The Fountainhead is an extremely powerful and philosophical novel (after writing Atlas Shrugged, Rand stopped writing fiction entirely to just do philosophical writing.) It is not exactly world crashing like House of Leaves was, but it will certainly make you rethink how you are living your life.

Personally, it scared me. I found I often had to set it down just to think about what it was saying and then get the courage to pick it back up again. I do have one complaint though: near the end it got a little preachy with a lot of dialogue that serves no other purpose than to explain in words what the rest of the book explained through characters. I suspect this is just for the imbeciles who would seek to read it, but whatever.

This is a book for those who have an appreciation for books, and art in general, in the respect that they are an extension of life. It is a book for the people of bold character, who would challenge the world, and in doing so make it better.