I have read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She is an egregious writer, imo. Very shrill. Not unlike screenwriters today. I don't need to beaten over the head with a point of view.
Rand's cartoonish view of humanity was a function of her essential adolescence.
Adolescent politics are elitist. They see the world as one big Beverly Hills 90210 where the brilliant, beautiful, cool crowd rule the geeks and dorks and are fawned over by the wannabes. One imagines Rand smiling benignly as the jocks shove some dork's head into the toilet. They are the politics people have before they have the maturity to understand that force is not strength and beauty is not goodness and cleverness is not wisdom.
In "Atlas Shrugged" a man in love with Dagny Taggart accepts that he is unworthy of her because John Galt is smarter. Is IQ the yardstick of worthiness ? To an elitist, to a snob, it would be. Is verbal cleverness wisdom ? To a fool of an adolescent it would be.