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    • Although the characters can feel like caricatures at times, this book changed the way that I think in many respects and has been a great motivator in my research, particularly when times are tough. One of my favorite books and would be included on any trip to a desert island.

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  • Joey Doll said on Mar 16, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition
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    • Atlas Shrugged is preachy, forced, spectacularly anti-feminist, and a failure as a work of fiction (in that the fiction is but a vehicle for the sermons in which Rand lectures her readers through her characters). However, it deserves a certain amount of recognition for managing to maintain ( ... Continue

      Atlas Shrugged is preachy, forced, spectacularly anti-feminist, and a failure as a work of fiction (in that the fiction is but a vehicle for the sermons in which Rand lectures her readers through her characters). However, it deserves a certain amount of recognition for managing to maintain (some) readers' interest in the author's ideology for over one thousand pages.

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  • matthew (matthewwithanm) said on Jan 5, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition
    • WOW!!!
    • To say that this is the greatest book I've ever read falls short of what I really think of this tome. It is a very long book and very well worth the read (or in my case, listen) Ayn Rand is an absolute genius.

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  • mizflame98 (mizflame98) said on Aug 8, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition
    • Maybe 25 years ago....
    • ....I might have found this more interesting, when I was young and not yet familiar with Rand's ideas. But now her writing strikes me as dull and plodding, and the way in which she presents her social and political ideas through the story and dialogue has all the subtlety of being clobbered with a 2 ... Continue

      ....I might have found this more interesting, when I was young and not yet familiar with Rand's ideas. But now her writing strikes me as dull and plodding, and the way in which she presents her social and political ideas through the story and dialogue has all the subtlety of being clobbered with a 2-by-4.

      And I actually agree with a good many of Rand's ideas...but it is impossible to work them into a conversation between two characters without it sounding silly, stilted, and overdone.

      Two-hundred or so pages was more than enough for me. If a book hasn't gotten off the ground by then, it probably won't. I'm going Galt on this one.

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  • Lynn (lparmoc) said on May 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition

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Paperback 1184 Pages
ISBN-10: 0141188936
ISBN-13: 9780141188935
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: Feb 01, 2007
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and Unbound
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