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Loading... Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Editionby Ayn Rand
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Boring. Didn't like it at all. (  ) tvmorgan | Jan 2, 2010 |  Probably my favorite novel ever. This is such a brilliantly written and extremely prescient work of literature. Ayn Rand doesn't even know how right she was(lucky for her). This book has one gigantic "I told you so" written all over it. This book will have you seething no matter what your stance. Gotta love it. (  ) ProgWizardry | Dec 27, 2009 | This is probably the longest book I have ever read. If you want to know what happens when the government takes over read this book. All of Ayn Rand books make you think. (  )1  tanya2009 | Dec 2, 2009 | A generally well written book for a sociopathic ideologue. (  ) Soultalk | Nov 27, 2009 | One of the greatest books of all-time. Rand is a goddess. ( )1 Anagarika | Oct 30, 2009 | 
 Atlas Shrugged represents a watershed in the history of world literature.  [Rand] deserves credit at least for imagination; unfortunately, it is tied to ludicrous naiveté. There could have been something exhilarating about the capitalists' revolt—except for the fact that what Rand presents is not so much capitalism as its hideous caricature. In fact, if her intention were to destroy faith in capitalism, she could not have written a book better suited to the purpose.  Perhaps most of us have moments when we feel that it might be a good idea if the whole human race, except for the fes nice people we know, were wiped out; but one wonders about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,168 pages and some fourteen years of work. Challenging and readable, and quick with suspense... It's a book every businessman should hug to his breast, and the first novel I recall to glorify the dollar mark and the virtue in profit.
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