It is not about whether it is 'good' or 'bad' as I or others may consider Augustine 'bad' and Nietzsche 'good'.
Ayn Rand was simply not a philosopher. She was a hack fiction writer who cobbled together a tirade based on her narcissism and called it 'philosophy'. L. Ron Hubbard was no more a theologian or great wise man either just because he started a 'religion' that is really just a money cult.
Try going to any philosophy department in a college or university and finding a class or the allowing of Ayn Rand within a class on modern philosophy. I know of one instance and it is a Koch funded Objectivist at the University of Texas who received millions through BT&T Bank to 'promote' objectivism in their philosophy department. 
So, no, as a graduate with a philosophy degree, I won't be accepting her pablum into the Canon of Philosophy....ever. 
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