Books in '16 | The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the first book I started reading straight after a friend's - a political science student - recommendation. The philosophy of 'Objectivism', that’s what the author is famous for, my friend told me, and the book celebrates that. I took this book to challenge myself as I felt that I was restricted to only limited genre. I didn't google the word 'Objectivism'. That would have been the easy way out. Instead I started on a self-appointed quest hoping to reach the finality of it. After reading the first page itself I knew I was going to like this book. Maybe, because as it turned out the protagonist was the same age as I. Therefore, I could empathize more with him. Not that I have the caliber to be studying in Stanton Institute of Technology. It's the way Roark is, his attitude of not following the usual order but creating one of his own. Not only that he has his own ideology but also he never f