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.
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.