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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: New American Library (5 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0451226852
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451226853
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2.6 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rand's Greatest!, 31 Aug 1999
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We the Living is Ayn Rand at her greatest. Her phenomenal writing talent moves the story along at a fascinating pace. The characters are totally believable. They don't become the non-human symbols of people which populate her other two masterpieces (although they're all fascinating, you can't relate to them on a human level). She manages to interweave her philosophy in bits and pieces, rather than the page-after-page rants in Atlas Shrugged. Kira, though, is a frustrating heroine to admire. While she treats Andrei like crap, she pours her life into Leo, a fascinating but brutal hero. Also, if a basic tenent of her philosophy is self-reliance, of holding no one higher than one self, one wonders why Kira becomes dependent on Leo, and sacrifices so much for him. In re-reading this masterpiece again and again, I kept thinking of how Rand was using Greta Garbo as her heroine. Also, the Italian movie made of "We the Living" is an absolute must-see for any admirer of this book. It runs over 3 hours and is amazingly faithful to the book. To think that this film was made in Italy and not in Russia is a shock. And to think it was made right at the height of World War II, with bombs exploding all over the place, makes it even more extraordinary.
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5.0 out of 5 stars By far the best of Ayn's Rand Fictional Endeavors, 28 May 1999
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I read the Fountainhead first, then Atlas Shrugged, then We The Living. We The Living is by far the most moving, engaging, and realistic of these novels. How interesting that this was her first novel; written, presumably, before her Objectivist Philosophy had taken full shape, and taken over all other considerations. The novel's strengths lie in the believability of the characters; their motives are human and their actions and circumstances realistic rather than idealistic. I was truly drawn into all of her novels, however We The Living made clear to me the problems in her later novels-- in the later novels, Ayn Rand ceased to consider plot and character as useful ends unto themselves, and began utilizing them solely as mechanisms by which to disseminate her philosophy. We the Living is strong because her characters struggle to maintain the heroic integrity she assigns them. In her later books, the love stories she created lack the passion and innocence (and believability) found in We The Living. If Ayn Rand's goal was to present to the world a philosophy for man to live by on earth, We The Living is the only one of her fictional novels in which the plot and character are believable enough to have have existed on this earth.
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5.0 out of 5 stars readable and less than 1000 pages, 14 April 1998
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I picked up a musty old copy from the 1959 recently..being in a glow about Atlas. This book moved me beyond belief with the struggles and harsh realities presented. I probably am one of the few Rand readers that like her clumsy style but in this story, her words flowed well and the American reader did not get all mixed up with long names and places that we could not reference. To quote Ayn: "..is not a novel about Soviet Russia. It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life..." To those who associate Ayn with the defenders of big companies and nazism...remember her semi autobiographical outlet in Kira. People that were Ayn's protagonists were those with life premises, to live and exist for themselves. Be it Dagny or Andrei, Ayn Rand's message was true and bittersweet.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Objectivism aside, it made me reflect on life after a regime change
After reading all of Ayn Rand's fiction in two months, We the Living (objectivist philosophy in its infancy) made me think of something that had always been there and never... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Born of experience
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For those of you who excroriate Rand for one-sided hatred of Communism, let me just point out that she was born under it, and she ought to know. Read more
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As far as I'm concerned, this is the only real novel that Rand ever wrote. Lacking the soapbox diatribes of her later works, this novel is filled with a savage beauty, deft... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars I cried.
This is the first Ayn Rand book I've ever read and it's incredible, and so realistic. I was born in Russia, and came to the US when I was nine(I'm 15 now). Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book but some serious plot holes...
I have read every one of Ayn Rand's fiction books and this is definitely the best written one. You don' get the sometimes annoying 1 page monologues from characters that you see... Read more
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I absolutely love this story....From the wonderfully dramatic plot, twisting in ten directions at once, that takes the hardships of life to its best... Read more
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Critics of Rand, when pointing to her more popular classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, often point out the exaggerated nature of the situations her characters are in... Read more
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