Camus wrote better novels and was easily a more trenchant philosopher, but if Harlequin-grade melodrama is your thing, I'm happy for you.
Think you are the only one here with a few Degrees under your belt? I’ve also read Satre, Keirkegaard, Orwell, etc...
I don’t read Rand for the gripping plots and character development. Objectivism is easy to explain, but sometimes needs a bit of plain illustration to show how the archetypes in her stories fit into reality.
And fit they do. Especially in todays political climate.