If you're gonna make a speech in your novel, you should just make a speech!

John Scalzi recently linked to his review of Atlas Shrugged, which made me think of my own post about the book (which is, incidentally, my favorite novel).

And that made me remember my major criticism of the book, which is that the final third of the book is pretty superfluous. I don't know if you've read it, but the book is about a heroic corporate exec…