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  • Great book. Everyone should own it. (and read it)

    

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  • I know this is a classic, but I found it to be extremely boring. I only forced myself to finish it because, I can now say that I have read it!

    

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  • The first time I read this it was difficult to get into and I was intimidated by the size of it. I'm glad I stuck with it (and read it twice!) as Ayn Rand is an incredible writer. This story has a sense of mystery and romance. Ultimately very thought provoking. An epic in many ways, this is an impor ... Continue

    The first time I read this it was difficult to get into and I was intimidated by the size of it. I'm glad I stuck with it (and read it twice!) as Ayn Rand is an incredible writer. This story has a sense of mystery and romance. Ultimately very thought provoking. An epic in many ways, this is an important book and a great read.

    

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  • this is one of those books, although is hefty reading (1000+ pages), i never wanted it to end. changed my ideas of capitalism just enough, that though i still don't fully support it - i can see the human side of it also. highly recommend to anyone and everyone! worth the work.
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    this is one of those books, although is hefty reading (1000+ pages), i never wanted it to end. changed my ideas of capitalism just enough, that though i still don't fully support it - i can see the human side of it also. highly recommend to anyone and everyone! worth the work.
    (thanks Tex for enlightening me about it)

    

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  • read this book three times. the first was in high school, the second in college, third post college while in peace corps and every time it affected me differently.

    

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.

With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.

Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit.

* Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club

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