The Fountainhead...

I finished the book this weekend. I am not sure I really liked it. It seemed very self-indulgent. I did not empathize with the characters and by the end, I was like "I get it". Rand seems to take Machiavelli's idea of "self-interest rightly understood" to the extreme. While, Machiavelli and other future philosophers believed that self-interest can result in a "common good", Rand dismisses the "common good". I can't say I agree with her. I know the point of the book is "individualism" and Howard Roark is the "perfect man" because he never compromised his principles, but I am still not on board.