I recently read Atlas Shrugged. I had to skim some of the John Galt speech parts -- just too repetitive and wordy.
I think Rand really "got" what "works" in human affairs, with regard to the market, work, production, and mooching. But, obviously, she was militantly atheist and she essentially worshiped man's intellect. I certainly couldn't recommend Rand to someone who might end up being intrigued by her "religion."
It's actually pretty amazing to me -- Rand came out of the Stalinization of her home country and saw what atheism was doing there. But she was herself an atheist and ignored that component of Stalinism, only attacking socialism.
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