Atlas Shrugged is neither a masterpiece of philosphy nor a great novel. I do not hate Ayn Rand, I just pity her and her followers, for they consider this book one of the greatest works of philosophy ever written. This is just a popular novel, and as far as philosophy is concerned, Nietzsche's philosophy on the individual remains unmatched to this day. Thanks to posterity, Atlas Shrugged and the other works of Rand will, sooner or later, fall into oblivion, for that is what happens to everything that pleases only the common herd and the pseudo-intellectuals.