I’m ashamed to say that I just finnished it in March for the first time. Hauntingly accurate.
I started trying to read it in 2004. Got to page 150, and couldn’t go any further. Too close to home. About a year later, I started over and got through it. Didn’t appreciate her atheist slant, but otherwise it was still too accurate. Except she didn’t give us a clue where to find Galt’s Gulch!! :-)
Nothing to be ashamed of. It’s a looooooong book. I read it in 98 for the first time and just again this year. It was a very different read the second time through especially after what has gone on in the world in that 12 year span.
She knew what evil communism was and we are seeing it play out in front of us right now.