Atlas Shrugged

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?

You will know the answer 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 book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.

Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism--her groundbreaking philosophy--offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century's leading artists.

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1088 pages

Average rating: 7.04

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Anonymous
Jul 25, 2024
10/10 stars
the very best book I have ever read.
amontulli
May 31, 2024
10/10 stars
Probably my all-time favorite. This or the Fountainhead. Dagny might have the edge.
Anonymous
Dec 28, 2023
8/10 stars
A must read. Regardless of your political leanings, Rand can tell a story.
ssurio24
Oct 17, 2023
8/10 stars
While this book is long and drawn out as well as boring at times. I enjoyed it because it talks about the importance of ones mind and that it is important to understand that one can't let their mind go to waste. We must also understand that ideas and our contributions to society are without reason to fall to others persuasion. This book for me was a challenge in itself and that I wanted to challenge my self in reading a novel that was thought provoking and interesting. While some people might not totally agree with Ayn Rand's ideology in this book one has to consider why its important to never let others control you or your mind for their own purposes. This is what i have gotten out of this novel and I am happy to have taken the time to have read it.
rgunvalsen
May 13, 2023
8/10 stars
Maybe slow to start but well worth it

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