Recommended! Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (You Don’t Need My Recommendation Though)

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Just wrapped up The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. What can I say that already hasn’t been said, except OMG, I would love to see the rape of Dominique by protagonist Howard Roark on the silver screen. Hot stuff. But of course all that stuff about individualism versus collectivism, objectivism, and progress is good too.

And despite the raunch, pessimism, and dirty sex, this book is probably the best personal growth book ever. Message: You can achieve whatever you want so long as you stick to it. A lot of rags to riches going on in this book.

My favorite quote:

Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don’t help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don’t work for my happiness, my brothers–show me yours–show me that it is possible–show me your achievement–and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Read it. You won’t regret it.

And if there were zombies in this book, they’d be the collective masses, unthinking and mindless.