Cathy Young,

The Boston Globe's resident libertarian contributor (and yet another pretender to the vacant throne of David Brudnoy), delves into the current Ayn Rand revival and expresses some qualms about her seminal dystopian novel "Atlas Shrugged" in particular.
This quote struck me for some reason:
Part of the problem lies with “Atlas Shrugged’’ itself. Contrary to her detractors’ claims, Rand was a writer of high and unique talent. “Atlas’’ is among the worst of her books. Most of the characters are either demigods or vermin. The plot suffocates under endless speechifying, with every point hammered over and over. The earlier novels “We the Living’’ and “The Fountainhead’’ advance Rand’s ideas but allow for shades of gray and sympathy for flawed characters. In “Atlas,’’ the ideologue has all but crushed the writer.
I've read "Atlas Shrugged" and can attest to the truthfulness of Ms. Young's above observation, it is a dreadfully turgid poorly written book. But then it was written by someone who had becomes a full fledged cult leader at the time of the book's publication in 1957...Therefore it's flaws are a consequence of the writer's status as a prophetess to small elect group of toadies and acolytes.
Any honest bio of Ayn Rand will note that she purged and dominated the "Objectivist Movement" with the single minded fanaticism that Vladimir Lenin purged and dominated Bolsheviks.
And this went on for decades, is it any wonder she didn't write a worse book than "Atlas Shrugged"?

And of course, what makes "Atlas Shrugged" so ineffably far fetched and fantastical is something Cathy Young has neatly overlooked, Ayn Rand depicted an entirely unrealistic US Congress that is completely immune to the blandishments, bribes and or blackmail of corporate America.
That alone puts the book into the furthest reaches of the literature of delirium.