There's a lot of cartoonish hubristic crap in Rand's books, and she only really has one philosophical point to make, which is that self reliance and being unafr

There's a lot of cartoonish hubristic crap in Rand's books, and she only really has one philosophical point to make, which is that self reliance and being unafraid of naysayers is good. Which is true. Basing your entire philosophy on a cartoon is a mistake, but bashing an author when you haven't read any of their work is a grosser mistake. Her one good book in my opinion is "we the living" - oh, and Anthem was an interesting novella - think she inspired Tom Disch's 334