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Question: Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey?

Has anyone read either of these, or BOTH of these books? And, in your own words, how good/bad were they, and why? The most detail gets the “Best Answer”. Thanks!

Answer: It’s Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead is one of the greatest works of literature of all time. It is the story of the architect Howard
Roark, who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste in building design. Gary Cooper played Roark in the movie, but the book is far superior. Pax – C

His story is still being written

We knew he wouldn’t go quietly. Matthew Barrett has too much nerve and verve to retire anonymously to a Toronto suburb, after a career that carried him from a bank clerk’s desk to the top of two major institutions, Bank of Montreal and Barclays Bank in Britain.

Book TV: Jennifer Burns, Anne Heller, “Ayn Rand”