"I'm pretty sure I got a good idea of the point of the book without having to subject myself to more than 40 random paragraphs or so. Everyone I've ever met that says they idolize Ayn Rand turns out to be a self-involved, spoiled whore."

That jibes with my experience too - devotees of what someone in college called "the selfish religion".

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/15/goofus_and_gallant_d.html