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MP3 CD: 4 pages
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (Dec 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1433256193
ISBN-13: 978-1433256196
Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but better to wait for the movie., 23 April 2007

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This review is from: Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)

Atlas Shrugged is a 1100 page(small print!) novel in which 4 or 5 people stride about like nationalistic heroes building railroads, inventing things, and being proud of it; while the rest of the world mooches off them and complain that the industrialists have too much money.

Even though I'm a liberal, I have to admit this book was interesting. It's like a dystopian novel for capitalists (God knows how many there are for socialists). The ideas are challenging and thought-provoking whoever you are, and the writing is pretty nice, Rand obviously put a lot of energy into the book.

But it's pretty clunky, the plot goes on so many boring tangents, the love scenes are ridiculous, the characters are uninteresting, and most of all it's too repetitive. A quarter of the way through the book I was already familiar with all aspects of Rand's philosophy, and I could tell precisely where the book was going, so reading it felt like a bit of a chore, especially since I never skim pages.

If you're an anti-union, hardcore capitalist then buy the book and revel in it, but if you're not, then wait for the expected movie, with Angelina Jolie coming out in 2008.

I gave this a 4 because the people who would like this would love it, and it's quite a novelty to read a writer who isn't a liberal/socialist/hedonist/romantic/bum.

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5.0 out of 5 stars you haven't lived if you haven't read this book, 24 Jul 2008

By	A. G. Czajkowski - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)

movie-schmovie. Read Atlas Shrugged when you're in college, when you're starting your first firm, when you're escaping the corporate world later in life... you'll get a very different experience each time. But read it you must.. sure it's long and, at times, very heavy handed. Many of the characters seem to be charachtiures to me, 30 years since my first exposure. But you haven't lived, or exercised your brain in sufficient dimenions, unless you've read Atlas Shrugged. THEN hate it or love it or simply respect it--great compelling reading, interesting philosophy and ultimately as bedrock classic 20th century literature as it comes.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but a bit lopsided, 24 May 2006

By	A. Isherwood (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Atlas Shrugged (Mass Market Paperback)

Ayn Rand does make you think and she definately makes some points worth reading. There are lessons to be drawn about the importance of individual achievement and the potential of waste and stagnation arising from an overpowering state. But the philosophy is too simplistic to be life changing (wasn't america founded on looters stealing the land from the native population, remember Enron anyone?).
This is not what I'd call great literature either, there are moments of powerful prose and the plot is a grabber. However the speaches get repetative and long winded and the characters are a bit one dimensional.

In summary worth ploughing through, thought provoking, but try and keep a sense of perspective, neither pure right or left has been proven to work effectively.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It requires patience
I really liked this book, but there were times when I hated it as well and just wanted to be done with it. Read more

Published 2 days ago by Blackbeard

5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece
Not the most engrossing 'novel', but worth the effort for it's purity of thought. Let all the left wing gasbags spew forth their parasitic poison.

Published 10 days ago by A. J. Davies

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful
Is the political and Social philosophy of Atlas Shrugged justified? It's certainly persuasive at times, if perhaps in an over-simplified rendering. Read more

Published 11 days ago by C. J. Wilson

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but not great fiction
So she was Maggie's favourite author? This almost put me off reading it, but then I thought 'know thy enemy'. Well, it was hard work. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Mr. Owen Patrick

3.0 out of 5 stars I shrugged
I think that Ms Rand's selfish and slightly bizarre philosophy isn't without its merits (it's not without its glaring inconsistences either), but I thought this novel was nowhere... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Ace Ventura

1.0 out of 5 stars Anyone who needs this many words to make a point is confused!
Reading this book is like being hit over the head with a blunt sledgehammer! Quite frankly the sledgehammer would probably weigh less than this book as well! Read more

Published 2 months ago by Ian Howlett

5.0 out of 5 stars Ayn Rand's magnum opus
Atlas Shrugged is a story about a strike. It describes the men and women of ability, the creators and producers led by John Galt going on strike. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Mr. T. S. LARN-JONES

5.0 out of 5 stars Speaks for itself.
This book speaks for itself. The writer knows exactly what she is talking about. Events in the real world confirm all the points made in this extraordinarily perceptive book,... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Mr. Jj Dickson

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't mention the S-word
The author saw the Russian revolution of 1917 at first-hand. She experienced its economic effects directly when her father's business was nationalised by force. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Paul T Horgan

5.0 out of 5 stars Atlas Shrugged
This Ayn Rand Book of the 1950's is prescient. Welfare cannot replace work. Prosperity cannot be created by dividing up current wealth. Read more

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