All I can say is this. Witness is a genuinely great book, one of the most important pieces of American writing in the 20th century. Atlas Shrugged is a book about how some loser with a dead-end job is actually a GENIUS who REFUSES to GIVE lesser mortals the benefit of his greatness and so hangs out doing nothing with his life until he can go to someplace hidden behind a man-made cloud in Colorado and LIVE WITH OTHER GENIUSES! And somebody wants to build a really fast train. It’s okay to think Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book you’ve ever read until you’re 18. Then you should stop.