I have read some Ayn Rand, though I have yet to read any of her novels. Somehow I feel less inclined to after hearing this from the brilliant Flannery O’ Connor:
“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re: fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”