>>Sorry, completely disagree.
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>I'm shocked!
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>>Granted, Atlas is more like a non-fiction book, but Fountainhead and We the Living are very good pieces of fiction. And even a "dark" play she once wrote called "Think Twice" was very good.
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>"Very good' exists in the eye of the beholder.
>She wrote during the 1950's.
>By my taste she's not even in the same league with contemporary writers like Hemingway and Faulkner and Camus, to name just a few.

Different strokes for different folks, but I found reading Faulkner to be worse than root canal surgery.