I had always wanted to read this novel by Ayn Rand, but couldn’t find enough time for it. However, I did lay my hands on it a couple of days back on the visit to Crossword, the bookstore in Mumbai. A friend had suggested reading it long back and praised it so much that it remained somewhere at the back of mind.

At the outset, the first couple of pages were not at all interesting, but as it is progressing, it is becoming something to reckon with. As of now, I have only finished Part 1, but I am impressed. The characters have so much of substance that you are bound to think about the fact that can there be real people like them? Howard Roark, the architect, is shown so confident of whatever he does that it sometimes feels as if so much of confidence is indecent…he would not settle of anything less perfect in his profession (What he calls perfect is his perception, not what the world thinks and that’s where the conflicts arise). Other characters are also intriguing enough…but that’s all for now because I am again going to be glued to the novel and write down my reactions to it once I am through.