I couldn't put it down. I got annoyed at the length of the "sermon" at the end, but other than that I liked the substance and the writing.
I also liked The Fountainhead and We the Living. What was that other future-world one she wrote? It was ok, but a bit off the wall.
I guess it just goes to show that different people have different tastes and opinions.
I did the same thing with The Fountainhead, I couldn't put it down. I started on Friday night and was done the next morning. I think it's one of her better 'written' books.
The sermon at the end of Atlas Shrugged almost kills the book. I've still read them all more than once.
We the Living is a painful book. I believe she said it was the closest to an autobiography she's ever done. To read what post revolution Russia went through was horrible. Liberals who miss the Soviets should be forced to read it 20 times.
I think the future book you're talking about was, Anthem.
I love most of her ideas, it's that she badly needed an editor and of course, according to her beliefs, no one could edit her books better than her.
That's the thing about Rand. She was a polemicist, not a novelist, and her characters rarely speak without speechifying. If you agree with her politics and philosophy, the books are a revelation; if not, they're painful.