It's always interesting to know what people fill their heads with! thank you for the recommendations! Funny you say that, I actually have Atlas shrugged in my pile of books to read and have been putting it off for a long time,, i will get it over with as you said!
Yeah, it's one of those things. You can't not read it. The movie is a mess. The monologues are obnoxious. I think it would have been a good short story about innovation. But I guess in order to actually tell that story properly, you need adiquate world-building. And that's difficult in a short story.