[driftless2]

I found Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead” to be one of the most readable novels I’ve ever read and of course it had a Randian message. So what if Rand was a thoroughly disagreeable person. Her critics miss her main message: big, huge government is a terrible evil. Apparently, all her critics couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

[A_perfect_lady]

If everyone hates you, you're doing something right. I read Ayn Rand over the Christmas break in my first year of grad school. First THE FOUNTAINHEAD and then ATLAS SHRUGGED, one right after another. I spent six days in my pajamas, basically. It was like having cold water poured over me.

Critics of her style are not incorrect... she wrote like a Russian; subtle as a pickax, and one reading was enough. Few people read her for fun. But her ideas were as new to me as the sky splitting open. I was never the same again, and I mean that in a good way.