Ayn Rand's Fountain Head

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toohey: why don't you just tell me what you think of me?
roark: but i don't think of you!

Read it long back when I was in college. Have never read it again.

but then, what i like about the book itself, is the way the philosophy is brought out without too much sermonising.

Agree. That was very conscious writing. If I am right the book was initially planned as a screenplay commissioned by Cecil B DeMille ( or atleast she was writing both the novel and the screenplay in parallel). With all due respect to Vietnam Veedu Sundaram, you can't write a movie that's all long conversations.

In her notes you will find Ayn Rand saying "don't dialogue thoughts".

Though she (excusably) does exceed the brief, she manages a very absorbing presentation . Just when there is a hint of a sermon it is broken into a debate and just when the debate is all volley the scene switches. Boy , I want to re-read.