Redezvous with Aynrand

I fst met ayn rand thru her book 'Fountain head' . I loved that book. Now i had a chance to meet her again thru 'atlas shrugged'. I am only half way thru the book. But i jus wanted to record a few thots. These m8 be premature.....

I dont find this as gripping a read as FH, atleast the fst part that i have read so far . For one , she doesn't talk abt its hero John Galt until much later in the novel, save for frequent passing references to him in the initial stages that make u rush thru the book to find when john actually comes into the pic.

Whereas in FH you were always in tuch with Howard roark ,the hero . U were happy to always remain struck to his magnetic persona. It was reassuring that he was always around. And u were always reading abt wat was happenin to him and wat he was up to.

In AS u had to be content reading abt everyone except john. With only the repeated passing references to John that the different charecters make.

And further these charecters took different shapes, as the novel progressed . She has made the charecters look complex by letting different facets of the char be revelaed at different stages. Wheres in FH it was one clean image each char held on to.