Atlas Shrugged
~ Ayn Rand
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A few people whose profile includes this book
RaiLynn
~ 28-year-old woman in Denver, CO
Atlas Shrugged
“I'm thinking very hard of a way to explain the effect this book had on me, but I'm having difficulty. It all sounds either...”
Catch-22
“This book captured my interest because the first portion of it is awesomely funny. By the time that it moves to the ugliness of...”
Eve2011
~ 54-year-old woman in San Juan, PR
Atlas Shrugged
“Among many things, the book describes what I am looking for "... To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum as their final...”
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Marvellous! We must read this book and "El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera" at different stages of our lives. Every several years...”
withloveandsqualor
~ 29-year-old woman in New York, NY
Atlas Shrugged
“Whether you love or hate her, Rand's influence is hard to escape. This book forever changed my ideas of dedication, dive, and...”
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“How can you not fall for Chabon's NYC, where anything and everything are possible?”
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A few comments on Atlas Shrugged (50)
Aug 4, 2010, 10:28 PM
Laznlor, a 33-year-old woman in Kansas City
“Way to miss the point. But thanks for providing an example of the sort of person I am least interested in! If you are going to cleave to a mythological belief system at least pick an interesting one.”
Aug 24, 2010, 2:47 PM
Textophile, a 63-year-old man in Toronto
“I think that Ayn Rand over reacted to the privations and persecutions endured by her family during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. She was very attracted by American capitalism and Hollywood in particular. Yet this combination lead to her enduring popularity. Her books have sold over 25 million copies. Something in them resonates deeply with readers if not critics and academics.
It touches me that while emigrating to the US she took the surname Rand - the second half of the brand name of her typewriter.”
Aug 4, 2010, 10:24 PM
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Textophile, a 63-year-old man in Toronto
“I don't hate Ayn Rand, I just have a very low opinion of her talents as a novelist. Her characters are wooden automatons whose sole function is to voice her philosophy. An over reaction to her communist upbringing lead her to worship laissez faire capitalism with as an antidote to the communist control of economy.
the left-leaning Mother Jones remarked that "Rand's particular genius has always been her ability to turn upside down traditional hierarchies and recast the wealthy, the talented, and the powerful as the oppressed", ...wikipedia.
Her influence on Alan Greenspan is considered by some as one of the main causes of the recent economic crisis.
Just because she was an atheist was no reason to reject the ethics of the Judeo Christian tradition. "Honour thy self above all" is no substitute for the ten commandments.
So there!”