I just love how Rand killed an entire trainload of people in the book and found a way to blame each and every one of them for their own deaths.
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The man in Drawing Room B., Car No. 15, was an heir who had inherited his fortune, and who had kept repeating, "Why should Rearden be the only one permitted to manufacture Rearden Metal?"
The man in Bedroom A, Car No. 16, was a humanitarian who had said, "The men of ability? I do not care what or if they are made to suffer. They must be penalized in order to support the incompetent. Frankly, I do not care whether this is just or not. I take pride in not caring to grant any justice to the able, where mercy to the needy is concerned."
These passengers were awake; there was not a man aboard the train who did not share one or more of their ideas. As the train went into the tunnel, the flame of Wyatt's Torch was the last thing they saw on earth.
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There, you have just read the whole book.
Rand was really pissed off at somebody.
Notice how shallow the characters are. Notice the fantastic coincidence that hundreds of people who all had the same shallow outlook on life were on the same train together with not one innocent soul. "There was not a man aboard who did not share one or more of their ideas"! Notice how Rand sentences them all to death for committing no crime other than believing in the wrong idea.
The book is stupid. And boring.