Try approaching Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as entertainment instead of “philosophical value”.
You may have been biased by your presuppositions.
Same with Animal Farm. It’s simply good literature with underlying meaning. You suss it out AFTER you read it.
>>Same with Animal Farm
That violated something really deep in me and I really regretted reading any of it.
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