If you're talking about a model for how an individual can cultivate a certain attitude pursue achievement and productivity, I'd agree it's a pretty decent one.

If you're talking about a model for how an individual can cultivate a certain attitude pursue achievement and productivity, I'd agree it's a pretty decent one. But as for how the characters behaved and reacted to each other, it seemed too robot-like and lacking empathy that The Fountainhead, for example, literally had me tossing the book across the room multiple times. "Real people don't act like that!" I remembered saying. And that was in high school, when I was Libertarian. I still finished the book though. If someone wants to check her out, I think Anthem is the one to read. You get all of her ideas, pretty much, with the bonus of being able to get through it in a few hours. Her other books are way too long-winded. The Fountainhead, despite being infuriating and having some excessive diatribes, I did think was a good book overall. Personally, of all the high school reading I did, Walden had a much more lasting effect on me than Ayn Rand did.