Atlas Shrugged is a profoundly flawed and unpleasant story that is a bloated, preachy mess from start to finish. As an illustration, one whole 100+ page chapter later in the book is given over to a speech, which could be boiled down to one sentence: "If you're not being selfish and making as much money as possible, you are the literal devil."

Boil the book down to 300 pages, and it could have been worth a read as there are some interesting threads, but being relentlessly beaten over the head by Rand's philosophy of greed is good grows so tiresome by the baffling conclusion you'll be wishing you hadn't bothered.