Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. Stark, laborious, and evangelical We all have work. One of the greatsProduct Details
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I liked Rand's overall premise and enjoyed some of the few brushes with solid plot and character interaction.
Ultimately, what led me to 3-star the book is that I am not one who cares to have every blasted thing explained to me.
I swear the woman must have assumed readership by empty-head because she laboriously wastes so many words on telling me what I must think, how I must perceive and WHY I must and how.
Sure, sure I get the whole, "Rand is expressing a philosophical premise through a novelistic expression." Well, let me tell you... this approach gets really old and fast in the book.
I am a pragmatic, free-thinking atheist who agrees wholeheartedly with most capitalistic principles but I would have far preferred a straight-on approach rather than reading some of the excessive moralizing bluster and mind-numbing over-explaining through the various emotionless characters she offers up in Atlas Shrugged.
Few of the characters I really cared for, outside of a purely hedonistic sense of desire for Dagny.
Rand is obviously extremely bright but I find this work so unnecessarily wordy that halving the book would have achieved a far more powerful and entertaining romp into her world view, much of which should be met with a sense of cautious objectivity :].
Atlas Shrugged is a lesson for our times. It helped inform my voting in the 2008 elections, and informs my vision as I read about the political and economic struggles of our country today. It can be a tough read at times as Rand waxes pedantic, and indeed the type is very small, but the insight gained is well worth the effort.
There is a place for charity ("Are we not all beggars?" Book of Mormon Mosiah Chpt. 4 - http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/4/16,19,24#16), and we are not all a Gault, Rearden, or Dagny Taggert, but we all have a contribution to make, and an excuse is not a statement of value.
There's nothing left for me to say that hasn't been said here. This book is a fantastic read, a good story overall, and full of important lessons about being a truly productive member of society. It's a bit slow to get into at first, and a few of the scenes can be redundant when Rand is trying to drive a point home, but overall, the message in this book is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago, and the way it is delivered is very unique and entertaining. Should be required reading for everyone in school.
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