Name: Atlas Shrugged
Rating: 3.348341232227488 (211 reviews)
ISBN: 9780452011878

Ayn Rand

The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.

Atlas Shrugged

Clair High

I tried to read this book like four times. I almost finished it (77 page masturbatory speech totally killed it). At the time, I wanted to like it, but came to realize how poorly written and how flimsy its ideology and characters truly are.

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.

Rustė Tervydytė

I'll include this feat in my resume: Managed to read through the entire 1168-page saga on the great struggle between robots and scarecrows. I sincerely hope to never again see any of the following words and phrases: "cold, impersonate voice," "impractical," "moral purpose," "material greed" or "no consent required." Jesus Harold Christ on rubber crutches, that was tedious. 

Mind, there is one aspect that brought unbridled joy to my heart - the fact that the only place where Ayn Rand's ideals seemed to work was [SPOILER ALERT!] a nice, classy, fictional blend of the kingdom of heaven and a communist utopia somewhere in Colorado.

Sabine Delorme

“Who is John Galt?”

Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, bei irgendeinem Buch schon einmal so lange gezögert zu haben, ob ich es tatsächlich lesen will oder nicht. Nicht nur aufgrund seiner 1000+ Seiten, sondern auch, weil die Autorin mir als Philosophin des Turbokapitalismus und gefeierte Heldin der Tea Party nun nicht unbedingt auf Anhieb mega symphatisch war. Ein Kollege hatte mir das Buch schon vor bestimmt 1,5 – 2 Jahren geliehen und immer wieder gefragt, ob ich es nicht mittlerweile gelesen habe. Hatte ich nicht, wollte ich auch nicht, aber dann las ich ein paar Rezensionen von Leuten, deren Meinung ich durchaus schätze und die durchaus positiv waren. Dadurch wurde meine Neugier dann doch entsprechend geweckt und über Weihnachten habe ich mich in diese Bibel des Eigeninteresses und des Egoismus hineinversenkt und ich muss sagen, ich war überrascht, wie gerne ich es doch gelesen habe.

Ayn Rand wurde 1905 in St. Petersburg in Russland geboren. Ihre Eltern waren mittelständische Apotheker, die im Zuge der Oktoberrevolution enteignet wurden. Das sollte ihr Weltbild grundlegend prägen. Sie siedelte mit ihren Eltern in die Krim um, um den Unruhen in der Stadt zu entgehen und studierte an der dortigen High School Amerikanische Geschichte. Ihre Liebe zum Westen wurde durch Filme und Lektüre, wie die Romane des von ihr sehr verehrten Victor Hugo, noch gestärkt.

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Liz Riley

Rand's more intense novel explaining and outlining Objctivism in a way that you do eventualloy feel it is so far down your throat that you have to discuss it with your friends until they just drown you out. I do love it.

My first Rand book that opened my eyes to what the world could and SHOULD be but will probably never will be.

Daryl Houston

Formative when I was younger, embarrassing now to have liked so much.

Phoebe 

Jawad

Heiki Riesenkampf

John Galt

Diane Wang

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.

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