I read this book in succession to Fountainhead and found it as many times better than it as many more characters there are in this book. It is easily a book that can have one base the life on. Its philosophy, its narration everything surpasses all the realms of thought and storytelling alike. I found too long descriptives boring tho at first read which I later read at leisure during re-reads.
John Galt is love of my life without exaggeration. Intellect is a huge turn on and thats what this man epitomises. While Dagny complements him she also provides a canvas to portray conflicts that the two halves of any mind undergo. She stands for all that he does but to its huge for her to be where he was at the first go. She needed a lot of her own conviction to do so. this in itself proves her to be equally powerful and freewilled which truly is the symbol of woman today. Its not fair though to her to lose objectivity and be gender specific categorising her as a woman as she necessarily appealed more as an individual rather than a woman. But being a woman myself I just couldnt overcome the pride in seeing Dagny evolve through the book. All in all the book is where Ayn Rand’s philosophy culminates in a form that any and all of us can relate to. The canvas that she chose for her book being the world at large rather than a particular niche itself widens the scope for it with respect to target audience.