Awesome book and I loved Fransisco’s speech. A 10 page lecture I can absorb. 60 pages plus for a single speech I just can’t suspend my disbelief. If I can read a 1100 page novel, it is not the length of the read that bothered me. It was the incoherent rambling and pointlessness of the speech. Make your points already. Tells us what you are going to tell us. Then tell us. Then tell us what you told us. I already knew John Galt’s basic philosophy up to that point. It did not need to be be-labored in a 60 page speech. It was the only BAD thing in the entire novel.
It went on and on...