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| Author: Ayn Rand ISBN-10: 0451191145 ISBN-13: 9780451191144 Format: Paperback Publication Year: 1996 Category: Fiction Genres Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957. | Average Ratings  from 26 reviewsPrice: $1.70 - $4.10 List Price: $8.99 |
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by: lseiv364  ) | Review created: 08/05/06 |
| 3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful. I love this book because of the attention to detail. Rand incorporates her philosophy into the realistic story creating idealistic characters which keep you interested. The book may be long but any less pages would not make it as great. Action, romance, and drama are all found throughout "Atlas Shrugged" without losing dignity. | |
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by: stevemaury  ) | Review created: 07/31/06 |
| 3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful. This book is my 2nd favorite of all time (favorite is Fountainhead). When I describe it to my friends who have not read it I tell them that it is a little slow to start, but well worth it. Once you get into it, you can't put it down. The story is compelling, the premise is profound and enlightening. The logic is sound. This book will change your life. READ IT! READ IT! You'll be glad you did. | |
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by: smaples1 | Review created: 03/03/06 |
| 3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful. the most insightful work of fiction on the evils of socialism ever written. the book lays out; in detail, how persons are stripped of thier self worth by a government who insists they break their back working. and in return they're "given" only what they need to survive. and are expected to donate the fruit of thier labors to those who did'nt earn it. Beautiful book | |
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by: soulsfire ) | Review created: 06/21/07 |
| 2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful. I read this book for the first time as a teenager avid to read as much as I could get my hands on. Aside from the chapter long tirade about the evils of man that John Galt goes into, this book is great! Ive read it 3-4 times thru-out my 41 yrs and each time you find something different, interesting about it. I plan to read it again real soon :) It's an interesting concept of a world living totally for capitalism, makes you stop and think about what society would be like if it were. Everyone who reads it will have a definite opinion on it thats for sure. I recommend this book as reading to grow and form personal opinions about who we are and where we want to be. Good luck reading it :) It may take a few times for things to really hit home. | |
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by: spacegold  ) | Review created: 11/27/05 |
| 2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful. Atlas Shrugged is an epic tome that requires a certain dedication to finish. It is a complex novel with many seemingly unrelated story threads converging ultimately upon the climax. It has many larger than life characters accomplishing great achievements through the rigorous application of that uniquely human quality: reason. They struggle mightily against anti-reason, mediocrity, fakery, and the quest for the unearned. The author casts moral issues in black and white so that there can be no mistaking good for evil or evil for good. In that sense, it is harsh. There is no retreat from obvious conclusions. But it illuminates many mysteries of modern life and makes sense out of many complex issues that have baffled most of us. The characters are used to demonstrate the power of reason and the nature of its enemies. And so the book becomes a great philosophical work as well as a novel, building upon Aristotle's principles of logic and arguing successfully the case for the power of thought and the transmission of thought into action. It shows man as he could and should be, alongside the antithesis. The reader is left with a clear understanding of life's most essential truth: To be or not to be is the choice to think or not to think. Anyone who reads and understands this novel comes away changed forever. His universe will have become integrated. He will know that all things are explainable in reality, even if the explanation has not yet been discovered. He will be secure in the knowledge that reality is what it is, and that the job of the human mind is to discover it. Atlas Shrugged is hated and denounced in many religious circles because it shines the light of reason into the murky darkness of mysticism that constitutes modern superstition. It shows that an act of faith is a crime against reason and, therefore, against the mind. The only criticism I could honestly level against this great work is that the author strives so hard to make her philosophical points that the climax, a speech by the main protagonist, seems belabored. It runs to something like 60 pages hammering home the importance of dedication to reason and reality and skewering their abandonment. Most thinking people will get the point and become thoroughly convinced long before the speech is concluded. The reason this book remains relevant enough to sustain continued sales almost 50 years after it was published is not its value as a complex novel, but that the author is absolutely right on most of her philosophical points. And by demonstrating them larger than life in the novel's characters, she makes them both understandable and believable. As long as thinking people want to make sense out of life and the universe, Atlas Shrugged will sell. | |
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by: smartstudy2000yahoo ) | Review created: 06/05/07 |
| 1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful. If you like an action novel with adult-size, believable heroes, living in the same world you live in...and, at the same time, the kind of story which makes you re-think every idea you've ever heard or lived your life by...you'll love Atlas Shrugged. In it, you'll meet Dagny Taggart a woman who runs a continental railroad. You'll meet Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian de Anconia, the latest heir of a worldwide copper empire, which he blows up, appearing to become a worthless playboy, for a reason you can't even guess for 2/3 of the novel. You'll meet Hank Rearden, the archetypical self-made industrialist, who invents a totally new kind of metal, lighter and stronger than steel. He cannot understand why, not only his country, but also his family do not appreciate his creativity and productivity. He discovers why, over the course of the novel, the clash between two very opposite moral codes. You'll meet Ragnar Danneskjold, a modern-day, high-seas pirate, who highjacks American cargo ships carrying relief to the failed People's Socialist Paradises around the world. He sells off the cargo for gold, which he uses to reimburse people's income tax to them. And the main character? Him you don't get to meet until 2/3s of the way into the novel. And when you do, you'll have several emotional reactions. one of which is, you may laugh your head off, because you'll realize that the author has laid clues about this character from the first sentence all the way through. This character has let a plot loose in the world of the novel, which will change the world, and you may wish it were happening in your world. And, his reasons will astound you. Those reasons will also cause you to see yourself differently. They'll cause you to understand the people around you in a whole different way. They'll cause you to see the world around you in a new way and, once you do, you won't be able to go back to your original way of seeing it. This is not the kind of novel, after which you've read it that you can barely remember the names of the characters. You'll remember these people for the rest of your life and see them all around you, in the best and worst of the characters of the people you know. The life of the author was as adventurous as all her novels. She was raised in Russia, under the communists and managed to get out of there when she was 21. She came to America, the country she said was founded on her moral principles. She went to Hollywood, hoping to write screenplays, met Cecil B. DeMille, who got her started. She wrote the American classic novel, The Fountainhead, which they turned into a movie, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. Then, as the result of 13 years of thought and intensive writing, she produced Atlas Shrugged, the book which continues to inspire the love of life and intellectual curiosity of millions of young people, many of whom are becoming the intellectuals who are reshaping the world. Later, came her non-fiction books in which she established herself as a history-changing philsopher. The recommendation of any of her books comes with a warning. She portrays characters doing the unusual, describes physical scenes like a painter paints, and solves age-old problems in technical philosophy...in pure, crystal-clear English. You'll be seduced to read and read. So, the warning is, be sure to eat, drink and sleep between sections of chapters. www.aynrand.org | |
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by: missdiana255 ) | Review created: 05/05/07 |
| 1 out of 3 people found the following review helpful. The book pictured was not the book we were sent. The book sent was a smaller one which could be found in any college book store at the same price without the shipping cost. My wife wanted to read Atlas Shrugged, but the type in the copy sent is so small she can hardly read the thing. The book pictured is a larger one with readable type - which is what we wanted. This seller should picture the book as is; we fell cheated by this seller. Dr. Jay | |
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by: gusey  ) | Review created: 09/05/08 |
I am reading it for my book club. It is sooooo long I needed to have my own copy... I amslowly getting through it. It arrived in very good condition. thanks,j | |
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by: a_earl20 ) | Review created: 09/01/08 |
i love this book. it is so amazing. i think i would marry this book if it were legal. ohhhhhh yeaaaaah | |
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by: stephen.bright727 | Review created: 08/11/08 |
Book showed up early and in great condition...couldn't be happier. Seller very professional and courteous. | |
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