Ayn Rand

I love Ayn Rand! My favorite novelist of the moment. Hindi ata nauubusan ng salita itong babaeng ito dahil isang katerbang pages ang laman ng libro niya. I’ve read The Fountainhead, which opened my eyes to Ayn Rand’s world and got me interested. Now I’m reading Atlas Shrugged, which I’m loving just the same.

I read her with the same love for the world she creates as I give Margaret Atwood’s and George Orwell’s worlds. I like these futuristic novels that might as well be talking of the present, or could be talking of the past, even. Nothing Matrix-y about them, no black leather and shiny silver metallic surfaces. More Blade Runner, if you ask me. But very right on target.

And Ayn Rand’s love stories…! I’m amazed how she’s able to make a finely wrouhgt love story in the midst of her head-on discussion about her Objectivism.

Ayn Rand’s characters are so real to me already within the first few pages, that by the middle of the 1,000+ page novel, I’m already hurting with them. I actually have to skip some paragraphs because it was becoming too painful to read.

"If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don’t you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

- Howard Roark
(The Fountainhead Chapter 1, pg. 33)