anyone read this? i picked a beat up paperback of it at half priced books today for two bucks.


its big though. i need good comments/reviews to get motivated to read it.



anybody?

Well, you were motivated enough to drop two bucks for it, so what's stopping you?

Seriously though, I recently bought it as well and have yet to open it because of other books above on my to-read list. I'll get around to it eventually though.

I just started reading this.... it's gonna take a while.

I'm pretty sure if you do a search for "Ayn Rand" or "Atlas Shrugged" you'll get quite an array of opinions on the book and her other works. I've always meant to read it, but haven't gotten around to it. I did really enjoy "We The Living", though.

I've personally read enough about Rand to never want to read any of her books, but if you can get through it, more power to you.

"Who is....."

Oh what's that guy's name again?



Huge thick book. The first 100 pages bored me out of my skull and I put it away.

I'm pretty sure there's a longer thread about this book on here already...but I may be wrong.

She's a fascinating one, to be sure. The way she elevates mankind (specifically men) to the level of a deity and celebrates mankind's achievements over all else in the name of survival is certainly interesting, to say the least. The fact that she believed that capiatalism was the only morally ethical form of government is a bit shakey when her main moral foundation is "Mankind's superiority over everything" and pure black & white objectivity that was based on "Reason." But isn't reasoning based on subjectivity most of the time?

I think that she never truly knew WHAT she believed.

I'm out 1/3 of the way through this... I wonder why this isn't required reading anymore... at least to give high schoolers a chance to debate the ideas.

I read The Fountainhead last year, and that was probably enough Ayn Rand for me. I received a copy of Atlas Shrugged in the mail for free and thought about reading it over the summer, but then I realized how long it was and how tiny the print was, and I decided I have much better things to do.