Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Atlas Shrugged
Book Review: 1 Rand = 1 nano-Hugo
Summary: 1 Stars
Was there ever a more vile and monstrous piece of literary excrement foisted upon the world? I don't know of one. Rand claimed to look up to Hugo, well she must have used a very big telescope to even catch a glimpse of him.Book Review: 1 out of 5 stars? You've got to be kidding me.
Summary: 5 Stars
I had written a nice piece about what I thought of this book. Suffice it to say that when I got to the preview it, my computer crashed so I lost the content...
Anyway, I justed wanted to still add this bit, if only to counter the 1 and 2 stars out of 5. This book is truly amazing and everyone should read it. period.
Book Review: 1 star for the ideal 4 star for the book
Summary: 1 Stars
Ayn Rand believed in some thing , so do most of us .The only difference is she took it to extreme hights .We must remenber That any kind of extremism breeds intollerence and intollerence
in turn breeds all type of social problems.
Ayn Rand was pro capitalism , So are most of us ,but she took it too far.So far that
as per her philosophy selfishness is ok.
If we have to question her philosophy then the first question that comes to mind is what about humanity?
The book is well written but ....?
Book Review: 100 pages of dribble cruelly stretched into 1000 pages.
Summary: 1 Stars
While Ayn does bring up some good points about indiviual responsibility for ones future, her overall theme of total subjugation to industrialism would spell the end to all that is native, primitive and lovely about the earth we live on. The story is shallow and predictable and along with her insular philosophy, could easily have been contained in a tenth of the volume it occupies.Book Review: 1000-plus pages of drivel and falsehood!
Summary: 1 Stars
Strictly as a novel, "Atlas Shrugged" is a disaster. Most of it consists of sermons. Every character makes long speeches and, whether hero or villain, they're all reduced to their philosophical position. That is not how novels are supposed to work.
And then there's Ayn's notorious "philosophy." Predictably, any time a Rand character invokes family responsibilities or the general welfare, he or she is invariably portrayed as manipulative or vicious or just plain dumb. (Significantly, there aren't any children to be found in Rand's work--logically, since parenting is an altruistic task.) By contrast, her tall, square-jawed, handsome heroes are always right about everything! Neither life nor good literature operates that way.
Add to all this the matter of Rand's personal dishonesty. In her afterword to "Atlas", she trumpets the following: "No one helped me, nor did I think at any time that it was anyone's duty to help me." This is a patent falsehood. Throughout her life Rand received help from her parents, her relatives in Chicago, her husband, her courageous editor at Bobbs-Merrill, friends who loaned her money, and privately subsidized housing in L.A. Her books are as deceptive as she herself was.
For a thorough unmasking of La Rand, I recommend Jeff Walker's "The Ayn Rand Cult."
For a satire of Ayn, I recommend my own book, "The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand: A Novella & 13 Stories." When I was preparing for the title novella, I plowed through all of awful Ayn's oeuvre, raided it for quotes, and then placed them on the lips of my characters. It was my way of depicting and dramatizing the seductive lure that Ayn's "thought" has on susceptible American adolescents.