I've never read Ayn Rand's books, I figure I should try a book of hers before I pass judgment.
Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are both easy to enjoy as works of fiction, in my opinion. It may depend what age you are. Don't read too much into Rand's pseudo-philosophy and you should be fine. One's a book about architecture and the other is about trains. Can't go wrong.
Oh man. Please make a profile on Atlasphere and say things like this. I recently took part in the MIT Mystery Hunt, and the winning team's name was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged. Definitely told me something about the type of competition it is, or is becoming.
God, it would be amazing to go on there, become a popular user (?!? whatever the equivalent of that is for dating sites) and then leave because of "the shackles of being preyed on by the ugly and stupid, constantly asking you out on dates to talk about horrible, misinterpreted philosophy." Or some equivalent of Galt's BS.
I respectfully disagree (on the books totally agree that her philosophy is crap) but 'We the living' is quite good.