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» 45 more Books We Love to Reread (188) Favorite Long Books (106) 1950s (75) Female Author (657) Female Protagonist (477) Books Read in 2020 (4,052) Banned Books Week 2014 (164) 20th Century Literature (1,122) Política - Clásicos (97) Read These Too (150) Mad Men Reading List (16) Nifty Fifties (52) Shelf 101 (27) My wishlist (4) SHOULD Read Books! (189) Books on my Kindle (123) BitLife (122) Very Very Bad (19) Awful Books (5) 2017 Goal (18) Best Dystopias (235) Great American Novels (127) Unread books (643) Favourite Books (1,674) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Jill.Mackin | Dec 18, 2024 |  ) nixmage | Nov 27, 2024 | There's a lot more to be said about this novel's ambitions and failures thereof, the most obvious of which is that book is at least twice as long as necessary, but those are grounds for a much longer review some other time. Despite the one-star rating, as a hate-read this is easily a 5-star book. I love dissecting Rand's ideas, and here she offers a near-interminable supply of one-dimensional characters, monologues, asides, plot points, and symbols. (  ) tmaluck | Nov 17, 2024 | The book, cannot be converted to audiobook, because it's an achievement to read it. There's entendre that some people simply cannot recognize. But you have to read it, not listen to it. It was perfect as a book report book. Easy to grade, but hard to get an A. The Fountainhead, or Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, are all equally good. But they present The Fountainhead in pink, and tell the students its the romantic one, and Alas, the blue one, is more philosophical. Boys take the test younger on average than girls, and the sexism trap isn't the first one that gets them. Its the riddle of selfishness. Fountainhead is easier to get an A on. Of course, none of that matters anymore. Literacy has changed, and objectivism with it. The end-stage of 2024 philosophy runs through this book, but does not end there. A philosopher cannot have good causality if they are not an objectivist. But the easiest way to become an objectivist is through the natural sciences, not philosophy. ( ) NathanRH | Nov 15, 2024 | ) Rasaily | Sep 12, 2024 |
"Despite laborious monologues, the reader will stay with this strange world, borne along by its story and eloquent flow of ideas."  "to warn contemporary America against abandoning its factories, neglecting technological progress and abolishing the profit motive seems a little like admonishing water against running uphill."  "inspired" and "monumental" but "(t)o the Christian, everyone is redeemable. But Ayn Rand’s ethical hardness may repel those who most need her message: that charity should be voluntary…. She should not have tried to rewrite the Sermon on the Mount."  Atlas Shrugged represents a watershed in the history of world literature.  Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article... "We struggle to be just. For we cannot help feeling at least a sympathetic pain before the sheer labor, discipline, and patient craftsmanship that went to making this mountain of words. But the words keep shouting us down. In the end that tone dominates. But it should be its own antidote, warning us that anything it shouts is best taken with the usual reservations with which we might sip a patent medicine. Some may like the flavor. In any case, the brew is probably without lasting ill effects. But it is not a cure for anything. Nor would we, ordinarily, place much confidence in the diagnosis of a doctor who supposes that the Hippocratic Oath is a kind of curse." "remarkably silly" and "can be called a novel only by devaluing the term" ... "From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To the gas chambers — go!'" Is contained inContainsIs abridged inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemys but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms. No library descriptions found. |
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