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

    

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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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  • 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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  • THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!!

    

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• ― Missmath144 said on Aug 30, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • 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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  • 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| Add your feedback

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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