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Publishers Weekly, January 6, 1997
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With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.
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.
* Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"The Most Amazing Book I Have Ever Read",
This review is from: Atlas Shrugged (Hardcover)
I found this book in my university's library; on the first page, someone had written "The most amazing book I have ever read."How can you not read a book with an endorsement like that?
4.0 out of 5 stars
Many valid points, but needs a reevaluation,
By Matyas Kiraly (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Atlas Shrugged: 50th anniversary (Mass Market Paperback)
Ayn Rand grew up in Russia, and emigrated to the United States. Her book Atlas Shrugged (1957) sketches a Marxist Russian type state emerging in America: incompetent government politicos who plunder the work of productive people using various lofty slogans for a pretext. Orwell's 1984 depicts a similar dictatorship, but unlike Rand, Orwell was lucid enough to warn the reader: this is not just a sketch of the Soviet Union, it can happen anywhere in the West too. And by golly, it sure did. Have you heard about the Patriot Acts 1 and 2? Read of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia and their Washington friends? Ayn Rand's oppressive nincompoop government politicos are here with a vengeance, plundering the productive people as badly as any fictitous Wesley Mouch could. The effective U.S. tax rate with all hidden charges visible is what, 50% of the average income?. To add insult to the injury, they are plundering us in the name of free market capitalism, the credo of Rand's book. In Atlas Shrugged, Marxist ideology is depicted as the pretext to loot productive citizens. Ideology is always just a smoke screen. Looting governments emerge because ripping off taxpayers from a sheltered government position is such a lucrative and easy racket (since Babylon), that it inevitably attracts the most unscrupulous and the laziest elements of any society like a shining lamp attracts flies. Call it Darwinian governmental anti-selection. Even in John Galt's utopian commune of super-thinkers, if they had a civil office post, who would apply for it, the brightest and the busiest of all, or the least bright and hence the most idle? In 1100 pages, Ayn Rand depicted us a government running out of control like a broken car. Next, she suggested that if we switch the little logo on the hood from a sickle and hammer to a dollar sign, the deep engine problems will cease. Well, I think the problem is elsewhere. And it didn't take 1100 pages to point it out where, either. I spent two days reading the book (enjoyed its dialogs, and a lot of the character situations) and a third day reading people's reflections about it on Amazon. Without reading the wisdom of the vox populi online, it would not have been a full experience. I hope my review and occassional thoughts will add to the enjoyment of others as much as their posts added to mine.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Endorsed by Radio talk Show hosts as must read.,
By JediMack (VALRICO, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Atlas Shrugged: Abridged Edition (Audio Cassette)
Whether one is conservative, liberal, socialist, fascist or libertarian, reading this book helps one understand where libertarians are coming from. Libertarians have beliefs that can't be explained away as hate or racism and such name calling is the last resort of those who have no substantive arguments to make.My professors should have assigned this book as part of my poly sci degree, though they had me read Adam Smith, Mao and Marx.
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