After taking a look at ncvrs user preferences surrounding The Catcher in the Rye, I decided to focus the data lens on another notorious book, Atlas Shrugged. Thanks to some good advice, I went and stripped out the classics that almost everyone likes (To Kill a Mockingbird et. al.) Here’s what I found out.
People who dislike Atlas Shrugged like
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Texts from Jane Eyre, Mallory Ortberg
People who like Atlas Shrugged dislike
- The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
- Illustrated Book of Genesis, R. Crumb
- The Bat, Jo Nesbø
- The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis