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Atlas Shrugged

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Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand
Foreword by: Leonard Peikoff

Penguin Books USA | August 1, 1999 | Trade Paperback

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

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    Samantha Campbell

    Rating: 4/5

    Really made me stop and think

    Samantha Campbell

    4 months ago

    I'll be honest, I appreciated this book more for it's philosophical ideas rather than Ayn Rand's writing talent. Which isn't to say that she's not a good writer, although until you get past the first hundred pages or so nothing really happens.

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    Rating: 5/5

    A dose of Distopian Utopia

    Dandoon

    16 months ago

    Today I will review the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand first published in 1957.

    I came to know about this book from the modern librarys top 100 books and it was rated number one by readers.

    As you know, Atlas is the Greek God who carried the weight of the world on his shoulders and this book discusses a dystopia where how all the smart and hardworking people are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders and how all the lazy, unsuccessful "looters" are riding on the coattails of their success.

    The Atlases of the world are considered cold hearted, calculating, greedy and the looters are portraying themselves as the ones looking out for the goodwill of society.

    So what will happen if Atlas shrugs? The whole world will fall and crash so in this novel all the minds and the hard workers and the geniuses of the whole world decide to shrug , go on strike and disappear and leave the looters to fend for themselves.

    I felt that this book is all about defending capitalism to the core; how competition leads to a better society, where a socialist society leads to the loss of ambition and consequently laziness. I do have to say that Ayn takes this idea too far in my opinion since she portrays capitalism as being pure and good all the time.

    Some of my favorite quotes:

    - Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins

    - "If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders-what would you tell him to do?" " To Shrug."

    - "Contradictions do not exist". "Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises". "You will find that one of them is wrong"

    - The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive- a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. Man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. The purpose of man's life is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

    - So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

    This book is long, 1000+ pages and not for the faint of heart but REALLY GOOD. I do not agree 100% with the philosophy of it but I highly recommend you read it.

    I shrug and give it a tow thumbs up

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    Rating: 5/5

    Very interesting

    Kasia Malz

    2 years ago

    The size of the book was a little daunting at first but you go through it surprisingly quickly. I was glad I finally got to reading it because it was a very interesting read. Seeing the effects of policy changes on the economy was really cool and a lot of the characters were interesting. Just beware of a 55 page speech! Only part that was a little painful to get through. :)

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    Mikaela MacDonald

    Rating: 5/5

    Small Epiphany

    Mikaela MacDonald

    12 years ago

    It took me two months to straighten out my mind after reading Atlas Shrugged. At least now i know it is straightened. I never actually realized that my motives behind doing some of the things i used to do were....well, lets just say, im over the guilt...and have less friends then ever.

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Atlas was the mythological titan condemned by Zeus to carry the world on his shoulders. Now, we have the other great story of a man threatening to stop the motor of the earth. Ayn Rand's classic story of the death and rebirth of a man's soul, Atlas Shrugged, now comes to her loyal fans in paperback.

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

About the Author

Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982 Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was born Alice Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated with highest honors in history from the University of Petrograd in 1924, and she came to the United States in 1926 with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. In 1929, she married actor Charles "Frank" O'Connor. After arriving in Hollywood, Rand was spotted by Cecil B. DeMille standing at the gate of his studio and gave her a job as an extra in King of Kings. She also worked as a script reader and a wardrobe girl and, in 1932, she sold Red Pawn to Universal Studios. In the 1950's, she returned to New York City where she hosted a Saturday night group she called "the collective." It was also during this time that Rand received a fan letter from a young man, Nathaniel Branden. She was impressed with his letter, and she wrote him back. Her correspondence with him eventually led to an affair that lasted over a decade. He became her chief spokesperson and codified the principles of her novels into a strict philosophical system (objectivism) and founded an institute bearing his name. Their affair ended in 1968 when Branden got involved with another one of Rand's disciples. According to Rand, people are inherently selfish and act only out of personal interest making a selfish act, a rational one. It is from this belief that her characters play out their lives. Rand's first novel was "We the Living" (1936) and was followed by "Anthem" (1938), "The Fountainhead" (1943), and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957). All four of her novels made the top ten of the controversial list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. On March 6, 1982, Ayn Rand died in her New York City apartment.

Trade Paperback

1192 Pages, 6 x 9 x 2 in

August 1, 1999

Penguin Books USA

English


0452011876
9780452011878

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