Originally Posted by ebtromba

I am a registered Ayn Rand freak. I messed up though, I read Atlas Shrugged before I read the Fountainhead. The consequence was that I didn't really like the Fountainhead when I finished it, because Atas Shrugged is so much bigger…in every way possible. Ayn Rand herself even stated that Fountainhead is merely an overture to Atlas Shrugged. I now appreciate the Fountainhead as an amazing literary achievement without trying to compare it to something else.

So definitely read Fountainhead before Atlas. But you probably already knew that…