Why would you say that? I've heard conversations about Ayn Rand come up lots of times in literate circles. Usually the consensus is that the Fountainhead is a great book, and Atlas Shrugged is a lot weaker as a novel, but has a lot of provocative ideas.
I find intellectuals and people on the left give her a lot of props and respect these days. They have a mature relationship with her, admiring some things, diasagreeing with many, without feeling the need to either join her cult following, or paint her as the anti-christ.
Because my personal experience when arguing with people is that they don't realize that intelligent responses were made to their assertions decades ago by one of the most widely read American authors. If they had read Rand, the debate would start at higher level.
" I've heard conversations about Ayn Rand come up lots of times in literate circles. Usually the consensus is that the Fountainhead is a great book, and Atlas Shrugged is a lot weaker as a novel"
I find it interesting that the literary circles would find the Fountainhead a better book than Atlas Shrugged. My take on the Fountainhead is the premise is flawed. We have an architect demanding to do things his way with other peoples money. It's fine to do things your way when your footing the bill, when you expect to get things your way on someone elses dime I think you've gone too far.