I've owned Atlas Shrugged for many years, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I've read a couple of her other books, and she's a decent writer. She seems pretty overrated to me. Her philosophy is basically: Communism bad, capitalism good, life is worth living, and each individual should put his or her own welfare above that of the group. That last one has been parodied quite a bit, but "rational self-interest" doesn't seem a terrible idea the way she explains it.
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