The most beautiful girl in the world insisted I read Atlas Shrugged for our relationship to continue.
That was most certainly enough incentive for me to wade thru it . . all 43,000 pages of it ;-)
Like most youthful Uni romances, it didn't last (to my eternal regret), but that gift of her insistence was priceless.
Thank you Mary DeVore, wherever you are ! !
I read almost all of her books when I went through my Rand stage, but in looking back, I see two major weaknesses in her philosophizing. First, although she claimed to love Aristotle, I see no evidence of his influence on her thought.
She never mentions the Law of Non-contradiction, substance and accident, the Four Causes, Act and Potency, etc. She cites the tautology of “A equals A,” but that’s not the Law of Non-contradiction.
Secondly, she engages heavily in ridicule and hand-waving, which is understandable given the shallowness of her metaphysics.