You know, when taken "out of context", many of the speeches in Atlas Shrugged are amazingly written (SO MUCH BETTER than the boring tripe politicians continuously repeat again and again). My favorite one was Francisco's speech about money.
However, they really don't make the characters believable or the story good. The characters seem to be very "one dimensional", they are simply "representing" their ideology.
PS: I read this book while on a cruise ship a while back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_R...White_Liberals
I have a feeling you would love it Skybird.