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4 Books You’ll LOVE If You’ve Read The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Awful writer, bad person, BRILLIANT ideas — why you should read the 20th century’s most influential book and these 4 after that one
“I like to see a man standing at the foot of a skyscraper. It’s man who made it — the whole incredible mass of stone and steel. It doesn’t dwarf him, it makes him greater than the structure. It reveals his true dimensions to the world. What we love about these buildings, Dominique, is the creative faculty, the heroic in man.”
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand’s powerful novel about an uncompromising young architect who willingly sacrifices everything for his ultimate vision has inspired more than 9,000,000 people to defy convention, relentlessly pursue what they want, and never, ever, EVER give in.
She was also probably one of the most horrid individuals you’d ever want to meet, and perhaps even worse, the characters in her books are made out of cardboard.
No real person actually talks like that — or stops in the middle of a big party swirling around them to deliver a 15-minute extemporaneous speech about capitalism — but many of her ideas were downright brilliant, and you should definitely read The Fountainhead if you’ve got like…15 hours to kill.
