Sergey Shilov Shilov itibaren Dobrzeszów, Пољска itibaren Dobrzeszów, Пољска

Love the story and the artwork is amazing.

I read this book for the first time in college. I was in a military school and the concept of "self" was something that was not in line with what we were being taught. This book is where I learned that to be happy, you first have to make yourself happy and sometimes that requires selfishness, or what appears to others to be selfish. And that if you aren't happy, then you're not going to make anyone around you happy. And that your happiness is solely your responsibility. You can't rely on someone else to make you happy. I don't buy into the complete theory of objectivism, b/c it really seems like a lonely way and there are people in my life (wife, daughters) that I will put my own happiness ahead of mine. Howard Roark doesn't strike me as the type that would sit at a playground, bored out of his skull for two hours, while his kids played. As much as I may admire his stance on many issues, I don't want to be that guy and I don't understand someone that wouldn't do something like that for their kids. But, there's also a chance I'm not "getting" the philosophy completely. Also, I think the speech he gave as his defense at the trial was one of the single greatest speeches ever.