John Galt.

He is a character in the Ayn Rand novel "ATLAS SHRUGGED".

I don't want to ruin the book should you elect to read it. so that's all I'm going to say about him.

Very good read IMHO.

reading this book is actually on my to do list.

i have read the fountainhead another great novel by rand

I consider myself well-read, ashamed to say I've only just read 'Fountainhead' in the last 2 weeks.

It was brilliant, and some of the dialogue, while a bit stiff/abrupt, was superior to anything I've ever read.

I am now on a gaddam waiting list (whoever heard of such a thing?) at the library for 'Atlas Shrugged', a book that has been recommended to me for the last 30 years.

^ 'The Fountainhead' is Rand's 'other' notable work.

From the Ayn Rand Institute:

It should hardly be any surprise, then, that nothing you do to try to lighten your "footprint" will ever be deemed satisfactory. So long as you are still pursuing life-sustaining activities, whatever you do to reduce your impact on nature in one respect (e.g., cloth diapers) will simply lead to other impacts in other respects (e.g., water use)--like some perverse game of green whack-a-mole...

The Fountainhead is a vastly superior effort to Atlas, IMHO. The ending of Atlas was just so bizarre and ultimately completely unbelievable that it lessened the entire book.

The characters in Fountainhead are so memorable. The Roark-Dominique relationship is truly incredible and powerful. They waited years! Compared to the force fed John Galt-Dagny Taggart relationship. Ellworth Toohey is one of the most brilliant characters ever put on paper. And it's so hard not to feel ashamed for Peter Keeting. The scene where Toohey is brow beating Keeting is the only time I ever screamed at a book. Literally screaming for Keeting to say something to Toohey, stand up for himself. But you could feel him shrinking as a man. Powerful stuff.

It so thoroughly and perfectly stated her philosophy of Objectivism. If I could read one book and one book only ever again for the rest of my life, it would be The Fountainhead.

Correction. My least sentence should have read... If I could read one and only one NOVEL.

'Peter darling! You are not worthless! You are the very best of the best! And that is what worries me...'

'Peter, you are NOT a pig! You will eat anything...'

#3 Chief, I'd be more than happy to send you a well read copy of Atlas Shrugged.

I've read it at least three times, others have borrowed and read it, so I'm sure it would love to see the left coast.

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