No Treason

I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead (both by Ayn Rand) recently. I read Atlas Shrugged first, and by the end of the book, I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I did when I began it. I think around the time that Rearden and Taggart go on their roadtrip together, the book starts to lose momentum.

But enough about Atlas Shrugged.

I really enjoyed The Fountainhead. I thought Howard Roark was a great hero, the characters in this book are much more developed, the story actually has a plot that serves the ideology, instead of a plot hastily slapped on an ideology (as I felt it was with Atlas Shrugged).

I recommend both books, although The Fountainhead might be much easier for newbies. I regret sending copies of Atlas Shrugged to the two family members I wanted to encourage toward rational thinking. A.S. is simply too long and ends with a rushed whimper, after what seems like a 30 page speech.

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