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Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Suspend Disbelief and Enjoy
Review: look, if you want to read a novel on the dangers of creeping statism ,then buy this book. It describes through the eyes of its characters how one government decree produces results that "warrant" another ,on and on till nothing is left of wealth or freedom. That said, the dialogue is corny ,the sex is ...weird ...This book is a polemic first, a novel second. If you agree with the point you'll love it . I have read it 4 times. I see the flaws but like the work as a whole.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: beware - this is not the novel but a cliff notes version
Review: be aware that this is not the novel but the cliff notes version. i won't order any more e-books because you can't get your money back. i suppose that's reasonable considering the nature of the medium but they should have made it more clear in the links this is CLIFF NOTES and not the book.
that being said, i should have looked more closely. the picture of the title page says cliff notes. that's the only thing associated w/ this book that does, though. with regard to e-books, buyer beware because there's no refund if you don't like what you get.
i think regardless of the format, w/ books they should say how many pages it is.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: gratest book ever wrote
Review: a grate book the story of the mind on strick all the infamation you need to learn for philophy IRATIONNAL PEOPLE STAY A WAY!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A highly thought provoking book
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. I love thought provoking books that challenge the status quo and this is definitely one of those. I was already a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism, but I was not aware of several subtle inconsistencies that I had begun to accept in my view of economics and politics. This book has given me a renewed understanding of how vital it is not to hinder those who strive to accomplish great things, and this book comes from a woman who grew up in the USSR and therefore, knew first-hand the consequences that she reveals.

Also wonderfully illustrated is something I've known but was not able to fully explain. That is, in a nutshell, that a man's choice in a woman (and vice versa) reveals his view of himself.

The only disagreement I have with Ayn Rand's philosophy (and granted, it's a large part of her philosophy) is her belief that nothing beyond our ability to perceive exists, such as God. However, I don't believe that the majority of her conclusions are incompatible with those of a non-atheist. In fact, I believe this book identifies several misconceptions predominant in today's churches pertaining to their belief of what man is to be and how he is to view himself in this world.

Ayn Rand's characters are wonderful. She masterfully explores their psychology. By the end of the book, they felt like friends and I didn't want to say goodbye.

I recommend this book to all my friends! Read it! Even if you don't agree, it's an important philosophy to understand.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Money is the root of all good.
Review: That is one of the themes of one of the 20th centuries most important books. Atlas Shrugged asks a most basic question: Is a human being a free creature, entitled to interact with his fellow creatures only in voluntary relationships based on mutually agreed values. Or is he a slave, to be owned, used and allocated by others based not on his own values but on theirs. Ayn Rand explores how the concept of an entitlement, whether to material goods or love and respect, inevitably lead to force, violence, corruption and human degradation
The characters drawn could be considered somewhat cardboard; the heroes being strong of chin and clear of eye and the villains shifty, weak and absorbed by fear. However, compared to Phil Donohue or Maxine Waters, Rand's characters begin to assume unexpected depth.
Rand's most subtle insight concerns the corruption of communication by authoritarian movements: words used not to enlighten but to confuse, realities denied so long as no one utters the obvious truth. Atlas Shrugged presaged the Clinton Administration by 40 years.
Contrary to the impression above, this is a novel of action and plot. The story is riveting, well told and fast paced. Atlas Shrugged is the hardest to put down 1000 page novel you'll ever read.
Rand was a refugee from the Soviet Union. There she saw evil in it's purest form and has written a book clearly delineating the essential characteristics. Characteristics present, not only in that society, but also in ours.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: JUST A FEW THOUGHTS FROM A YOUNG CAPITALIST.
Review: ... In Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand repeats things so they serve as guides through the book. It is imeaserably powerful to repeat an idea from the book over and over again; especialy when the plot changes. This causes the reader to think about what they have read... Ayn Rand shows this fact to us through the characters such as Jammes Taggard and the "Looters"...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A 500-page book (max) blown up to 1,000 pages
Review: This book is 1,000 pages long, and as you read it you can't help but think that a decent editor could have trimmed 400 pages with ease. 50 pages (or more) of the book are devoted to "mocking" and "contemptuous" smiles, and no character gives another a glance without conveying paragraphs of unspoken (but unfortunately not unwritten) meaning.

The entire "Atlas Shrugged" concept, the backbone of the plot, is very intriguing and I suspect this is why so many people are drawn to give the book a chance. The book begins strongly, which actually makes it harder to bear when you see the promising plot degenerate into a series of mind-numbingly redundant dialogues in a world that is so black-or-white that you are unable to continue suspending your disbelief and realize you are not reading a story of the planet Earth, but of some distant planet in the Randoverse where different rules apply.

If you love to read, steer clear -- you'll be skipping pages by the tens with full confidence that you're missing nothing you haven't read a dozen times already. Having finished the book, my primary reaction is surprise -- I am surprised at how such a bad book could enjoy the sort of reputation it seems to have.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: very good book
Review: i like this book it provide me with all the infomation that i need to know to be a philopher

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book should be required reading in high school
Review: If you judge a book by it's cover, you may find yourself cringing at the thought of diving into "Atlas Shrugged". Resist the urge to put off reading it!!!

I read "Atlas Shrugged" surprisingly quickly for the simple reason that I could not put it down. I found myself identifying with the characters and pulling for their success and being drawn along throughout the story. It is very appropriate that Ayn Rand wrote this during the Cold War a conflict between the ideologies of productive individuism and redistributionism, between two societies -- the West and its value of the individual and rewards for acheivement, and the Soviet Bloc and its emphasis on the masses.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has the capacity to think critcally and analytically. I periodically lend "A.S." to my liberal friends. I usually find that they defend their posistions with less gusto than before they read it. I only wish that I'd read this book when I was in high school.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The book that HAS changed the world...
Review: Atlas, alas, need not shrug. The reason Atlas no longer needs to shrug is because of this book by Ayn Rand.

There are signs everywhere that Ayn Rand and her philosophy, Objectivism, is slowly but surely changing the culture of the United States and the world. There are people speaking out in virtually every major newspaper, there are radio shows on the air every day bringing the voice of reason to their listeners, there have been leading Objectivist intellectuals on popular TV shows, there are even several major universities now starting philosophy programs to study Objectivism, and the internet has hundreds if not thousands of websites dedicated to Ayn Rand and her ideas. The media department at the Ayn Rand Institute. is being consulted more and more often by news outlets that wouldn't even have given Rand a second thought 10 years ago.

No, Atlas does not need to shrug... the burden of bad ideas is growing smaller and smaller every day thanks to the ground-breaking philosophy in Ayn Rands novel "Atlas Shrugged."


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