This is an amazing book. Get over your squeamishness, Patrick. Strap in, put the crash helmet on. It's a long & bumpy ride. The "message" of the book is eternal & eternally true. Somebody may eventually express it better in a better novel---but it hasn't happened yet, and it certainly doesn't seem likely that in this pissant decade anybody will. Who is John Galt? I am, motherfucker, wanna make something of it?!