Howard Roark laughed.
That’s how the story of Ayn Rand’s book, Fountainhead begins. This book is like an invisible quagmire. First, looking at the sheer thickness of this volume, you would dread to read it. But once, you start, you are slowly enticed and drawn deeper. And there will come a time when you would want to stop but you won’t feel like doing it, because the story is a heady mix of acts of perfection against acts of mediocrity, triumph of truth over deception, and an indiscernible fight of the sensible against the senseless.
This book stands a constant reminder, to those whose goals are set bigger and higher, not to ever give up on their fight. Howard Roark’s character sparkles as a man of uncanny intellect and uncompromising standards. A man whose architectural abilities are so original and competent, that others fear his stay in the mainstream architecture a threat to their mediocre work. Amidst deceit, treachery, contemptuousness, Howard Roark, with his uncorrupt moral work values, rises from pits to glory like the phoenix from the ashes.
Moreover Ayn Rand’s portrayal of the characters in the book like Peter Keating, Ellsworth thoohey, Gail Wyand and others are depicted with such clarity, you could subconsciously pick out characteristics of these individuals among people you talk to. You could be saying to yourself. Hey! This guy is like Keating. Here’s a Thoohey. There goes a Wyand. It’s simply amazing as to how Ayn Rand has woven this intriguing story which is so profound.
Although the book was written more than 50 years ago yet the sheen of the story or the tendencies of the characters are unbound by time. Honestly, if I were to live my complete life and write a book like Fountainhead I would consider my life truly worth living.
That’s how the story of Ayn Rand’s book, Fountainhead begins. This book is like an invisible quagmire. First, looking at the sheer thickness of this volume, you would dread to read it. But once, you start, you are slowly enticed and drawn deeper. And there will come a time when you would want to stop but you won’t feel like doing it, because the story is a heady mix of acts of perfection against acts of mediocrity, triumph of truth over deception, and an indiscernible fight of the sensible against the senseless.
This book stands a constant reminder, to those whose goals are set bigger and higher, not to ever give up on their fight. Howard Roark’s character sparkles as a man of uncanny intellect and uncompromising standards. A man whose architectural abilities are so original and competent, that others fear his stay in the mainstream architecture a threat to their mediocre work. Amidst deceit, treachery, contemptuousness, Howard Roark, with his uncorrupt moral work values, rises from pits to glory like the phoenix from the ashes.
Moreover Ayn Rand’s portrayal of the characters in the book like Peter Keating, Ellsworth thoohey, Gail Wyand and others are depicted with such clarity, you could subconsciously pick out characteristics of these individuals among people you talk to. You could be saying to yourself. Hey! This guy is like Keating. Here’s a Thoohey. There goes a Wyand. It’s simply amazing as to how Ayn Rand has woven this intriguing story which is so profound.
Although the book was written more than 50 years ago yet the sheen of the story or the tendencies of the characters are unbound by time. Honestly, if I were to live my complete life and write a book like Fountainhead I would consider my life truly worth living.
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