Thanks a lot, yeah if it sounds like something that interests you definitely check it out. The book "The Fountainhead" is a sort of look at individuality and a good starting point for her books... Atlas Shrugged is her 'magnum opus' the thing she is known best for. Atlas Shrugged also deals with themes of individuality but also the scope of that entire story is absoultely breathtaking. And when reading he books it's easy to fall into the sense of, ah yes, but of course, it's just a made up story - which basically they are. But I have also seen exactly what she is talking about play out in the real world in many instances and i wonder to myself just how much of a story is it really. She was a 'romantic' author not like romance novels but writing in the way that life out to, and could very well be, which is another consideration in the whole 'its just a story idea.' Also if you don't want to dive headfirst into reading Atlas Shrugged was made into a movie. Three actually, because the book is in three parts. The movies might appear a bit boring and i think they had a hard time trying to actually get the movies made because there isn't an insanely massive demand for this type of stuff so budget etc. was a bit all over the place. The first movie part 1 has the best budget and it shows a bit. Also the movies contain only like probably 1/10 of what is really in the book but i think they did an excellent job with what they had of preserving the sort of 'spirit' of the message in her work. You can only fit so many lines into a movie without it being 60 hours long or something as well the budget needs to cover. Oh yeah, also the main protagonist of Atlas Shrugged could be considered Dagny Taggart and she is such a badass heroine figure and h er relationship with her brother as president of Taggart Transcontinental and her doing all the work and him taking all the credit, i think it's such a wonderful way to illustrate her philosophy of there are people that produce and make things happen and then there are others that would just wish to use others and this story is an exploration of what happens in that dynamic when things are taken to their extreme and logical outcome. In the story it's observed both on a personal level as well as a greater societal level which is why i was saying the breadth and scope of atlas shrugged is impressive.
Anyways haha thanks for checking out the blog glad to be here hope you have a wonderful day @rafzat
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