Who is John Gault?
Just kidding-
HAHAHA, me too, thats the only part that I skimmed, otherwise I found it to be a resounding confirmation of my political belief system.
>>after all these years I STILL haven't got through John Gault's speech<<
That is THE "jump the shark" moment in the book.
Other than that, it is a very good warning. We are seeing very much of what it talked about coming true in western culture now. The latest salvo was france making it illegal for non-journalists to photograph or record events and then publish them or offer them for publishing.
It is a classic looter moment.
I was reading Atlas Shrugged on vacation, the first 10 pages of the speech went OK, but man, did it get monotonous. But being on vacation I managed to get through it. When I read it again a year ago, I skipped it.
For some reason I love both Ayn Rand and Stephen King--two writers with a gift for saying in 10 pages what could have been said in one paragraph.