About a third through this book, but I'm on the verge of giving up. Although I'm sympathetic to a lot of what she's trying to say, I think the characters, writing, and plot so far are just terrible. The things said and done by the "bad guys" are just too over the top and unbelievable. The good guys aren't really likeable either.

Making the villains look so stupid, cartoonish, and irrational is just overkill, and they are probably more suitable in a children's storybook. The philosophy they espouse is so stupid it beggars belief that their influence is so large. I know it's fiction and it calls for the suspension of belief, but you do need some realism and strong motives as well to make a good book. For example, I don't come to Tolstoy's heroes' conclusions in "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" but I enjoyed reading the discussions between different characters because he tries to present them honestly and realistically from different view points and I can empathise with most of them.

Finally, the line "Who is John Galt?" strikes me as so silly that every time I read it I can't help but snicker and not take the book too seriously. I guess there are tonnes of people who love the book since it's ranked no 1 by randomhouse's readers (and it was the reason I bought it), but I'm not one of them.