I attempted to read "The Fountainhead" once while in high school...got through about 3 chapters...and dropped it, because I found it espoused so deeply repulsive a philosophy that it practically made me feel physically ill to keep reading it.

That was my very short acquaintance with Ayn Rand's work. You could call it "loathing at first sight", I guess. It seemed to be directly opposed to every basic social instinct I have.