Atlas Shrugged
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Ayn Rand
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.
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Author
Ayn Rand
Pages
1088
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2005-04-21
ISBN
1101137193 9781101137192
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Oh Atlas Shrugged, a wonderfully constructed story of patience, heartbreak, and failure. The ideology of Ayn Rand is not subtle at all and will ruin your experience if you can't entertain other people's ideas without believing in them. The characters are perfect caricatures of her ideology, flawless and very well spoken to each individually prove their reason for existing. The story itself is incredibly well written and riveting, particularly the first part that focuses on Taggart Transcontinental. If you want a mental exercise in political expression, I can't think of a better book."
Sages
"Very conceptual and long, but worth the read."
Jamie Publicover
"Honestly I'm DNFing it at 17%. I'm at 200 pages in and I'm so ****** off I wanna throw it across the room.
Why am I mad?
Just the typical bs about how some people are left out of a process, who disregard it and try to demean it at every turn but the moment it starts to succeed, they want a piece of the pie and say they never had any doubts wanting to buy it for any amount. But the moment they're spurned they blacklist it and try to destroy it publicly with crappy new laws that they pass and and bs social reforms they tout in colleges and conferences. I'm sure I'm outing myself politically with this view point but it's garbage.
I don't agree with everything but I'm super annoyed and I don't need a merry-go-round issue to tell me what I already believe. (To an extent) Plus we see enough of this in our politics today. Who likes to rehash it.
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Sarah
"Socialism or capitalism?"
WT
"An excellent read, though I have to concede that it is probably a bit long for a required reading book in an academic setting."
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Bill S.
"Even though I now don't agree with all of Ms. Rand's philosophy concerning society and capitalism, this and her other classic The Fountainhead remain some of my all-time favorites "
Carol Blakley
"Everything’s already been said about this one. A little too long but I loved it. "
Autumn Frymark
"Eye opening about self worth, real love and the danger of communism "
Kristi Evans-Henry
"Different from my normal read but I liked the overall premise. Sometimes Ayn wrote really long monologues but overall a good book! Not a huge fan of the ending.. "
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Lauren Lindholme
"I can’t pinpoint a specific area. I liked the book as a whole. Super interesting read slow start. "
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Stephanie Ivy
