Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Atlas Shrugged
Book Review: A life changing read!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book changed my life. I used to fight for socialism and environmentalism, believing that it was only by subordinating the individual to the group or collective that would solve the world's problems.Ayn Rand illustrates briliantly in this novel the importance of a man's right to his own life and that sacrificing the individual to the "state" or "god" or "society" or "race" or even "the environment" etc., is not the solution but the cause of the dire state of the world today.
A Quote from this book referring to the psychology of collectivists:"They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed; they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence ... You who've never grasped the nature of evil, you who describe them as 'misguided idealists,' they are the essence of evil."
If you believe in a rational, benevolent world then this is a book for you.
Julia Phipps
Book Review: Reading this is like wading knee-deep through treacle!
Summary: 1 Stars
Go to the shops, clean the kitchen cupboard - do anything but read this piece of contrived nonsense! Believe me, it'll be time better spent!This is without doubt the worst book ever - a desperate slog withou reward, from the word 'go'. Ayn Rand's cold, pro-Capitalist sentiment makes for a soul-less, steely read.
We all know literature isn't just there to entertain, but there's little point in reading for pleasure a book that sets out to deliberately alienate its readers.
Suitable for post-graduate study only! Only worth it if you have weeks to work it all out.
Book Review: Nothing like it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book crystallized ideas that I believed before reading it, and with full-force gave me the confidence to stand behind my convictions 100%. I had ideas about the ways of the world, but Ayn Rand put them in rational words. No political agenda ever felt at home with me (I've been on the left-wing side, I've been a moderate) until I understood Capitalism..and furthermore Objectivism through the words of Ayn Rand.I've read a ton of books, and not one comes close to this read! For all those that say it's rubbish, find one contradiction! You can't...that's all I gotta say!
Book Review: Repetitive preachy nonsense
Summary: 1 Stars
This novel is not well-enough written to be literature, not coherent enough to be a thesis, not exciting enough to be an epic, too repetitive to carry the reader along. A thousand-page novel has to be entertaining, but this one just leaves the reader wishing Ayn Rand had employed a decent editor. Every word spoken by every character adds up to a two-dimensional representation of the views that the author presents in an utterly unbalanced manner. The novel makes some valid points, but why does it have to be so damn turgid?Book Review: First it smacks you on the head then you LEARN!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is reality slapping you in the face. Why should we feel guilt for our personal acheivements, why should we believe in serving the 'group' as opposed to serving ourselves, when it is ultimately for the better? and what do you tell Atlas, the man who carries the world on his shoulders, to do when he gets clobered by those who believe in the supposed sanctity of 'the all.' Read this book... it will teach you a good lesson! Ayn Rand makes life more visible!