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I read Atlas Shrugged after an acquaintance (whose opinions I don't care much for) told me he had read and liked it very much. After reading it I understood why he had enjoyed it so much: the underlaying philosophy was quite simple and naive.
Ayn Rand's characters are either "self made men/women" or scoundrels. Everybody is making speeches all the time, the monologues of the good guys being notoriously longer. I skipped a good part of the John Galt broadcast so that I could finish the book.
While reading, it was clear to me that Rand was writing fiction but in fact expressing her own ideas through the good guys. This led me to research a bit about her life, and was not surprised to know that in the end she had abandoned fiction and founded her most properly named "Objectivism" movement.
Some days ago I felt like reading something from her again ( I have a strange fascination with ideas that I don't share) and am now finishing The Fountainhead, which is basically the same as Atlas Shrugged but written 15 years earlier.
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