I've been reading this book for the last three weeks now - almost 3 quarters done and I can not decide if I'm more repulsed or drawn to it with every passing page. It's long for one - I love Epic's as I call them. But the story. It Should be the GOP manifesto! It's so incredibly conservative in every way possible - I get frustrated w / the characters at times Because of how absolute They are in everything They Do - everything is "The most ..." "The greatest ...," "The best ..., "" The biggest ... "And being a very liberal person myself - I want to argue w / Ayn Rand or the characters on the statements thatthey make - wanting to explain to someone where Their theories are WRONG! But there's no one to talk to - I just keep reading and reading ... Yet the story fascinates me - I really liked the first 3rd of the book, the building of The John Gault Line - as did section which I could not imagine ending what the rest of the book would be about - I thought it was a complete story as it was ... Then it just keeps getting better and better - I keep thinking I have it all figured out, like most movies and books, but Ayn Rand was definitely a woman of a different era Because where she takes the characters is in directions even today would be drastic or radical Considered. I'm not even sure which character it is I like better - Dagny Tagart? Francisco D'Anconia? Or Hank Riordan? I'm still captured in it (spent My Entire weekend buried in this book) and I'm going back to finish it now!
