You are going to catch a lot of downvotes for Atlas Shrugged unless it is added with irony. It is truly a bad book written by a rather horrible person with dubious morals. I strongly recommend anyone who has progressed beyond their angsty sophomore year of college to give it a pass; just go read Anthem to get a feel for Rand's poorly justified bullshit (and to observe a nice example of 'literature' that can do no better than straw man antagonists) and save yourself several hundred pages of reading.