With all that said, I'll offer some negative points about Rand. First, I think she was in many ways a lousy writer. AS is a novel of ideas--not merely *about* ideas, but a novel in which all its elements derive from and explicates certain ideas. 9/18

But the reader has no way to know this, at least not until well into the novel, and not even then if he's not sympathetic to the Randian worldview. The novel is seemingly one in which Galt decides to destroy the world and succeeds, in other words, a physical conflict. But it just isn't that. 10/18