[fortheDeclaration]

After wrestling through the thousand plus pages of "Atlas Shrugged", I decided to postpone my efforts on "The Fountainhead". I think Whittaker Chambers sums it up rather nicely in this piece.

The Fountainhead is a much better novel.

I did not like 'Atlas' since the characters lacked any depth.

The Fountainhead is a much better work on dealing with fighting for principles and not compromising with evil.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Fountainhead was better as a novel. Most likely because the evils were personified and one could focus on them individually. Atlas Shrugged just has a bunch of interchangeable bureaucrats as the bad guys (accurate, but not dramatic.)