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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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Great book. Everyone should own it. (and read it)
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.
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.
I was reading this book as the world economy was imploding last fall, and I had a hard time believing Rand wrote this in the 1940's/1950's. The U.S. Gov't taking over the auto industry, banks . . . now talking about taking over metro rail lines and subways . . . the solar panel company in CO, toute ... Continue
I was reading this book as the world economy was imploding last fall, and I had a hard time believing Rand wrote this in the 1940's/1950's. The U.S. Gov't taking over the auto industry, banks . . . now talking about taking over metro rail lines and subways . . . the solar panel company in CO, touted by Obama as the wave of the future--every employee makes exactly the same amount, management or grunt doesn't matter--filing for bankruptcy . . . Rand could have been writing about the headlines showing up every day these days.
THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!!
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.