Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Atlas Shrugged
Book Review: SImply Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
Atlas Shrugged is the best book I have ever read in my life. It may be long but since it's a mystery (and a very exciting one too) the pages fly by. It is well written and the message is so good and so unique. The plot is slightly unrealistic but its nontheless a good read. I strongly recommend it.Book Review: A book that delivers on many levels
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first review I have submitted and I feel compelled on one handto defend this book against attackers, but on the other to reinforce someof the points that have been made by other reviewers here. The number ofhigh-ratings for this book is no accident.I was referred to Atlas Shrugs by an Australian whom I shall forever begrateful to. It is a book I discovered whilst on a gap year, travellinground the world. Over the course of a long journey, this book came withme, and I with it.
Simply put, the scope, scale, complexity and sheer imagination that hasbeen put into the 800 pages or so here are a wonderous achievement and adelight for those fortunate enough to be introduced to the story.
I have noted in the title that this is a book that delivers on manylevels. On an intellectual level it is a deeply important philosophicalwork that articulately portrays Rand's views in an engaging and accessibleway.
On a sheer storytelling level, it is an intricate mystery, global in scopeand handled with supreme skill. Characters are brilliantly woven, themesmeticulously developed and referenced. It is a superior piece of work.
My only critiscm of this (and it is still not enough to remove the 5 starsI have placed on this) is the elongated "speech" passage. Readers familiarwith this may call me a 'heretic', but I am sure that for the lay-person,the artistic licence taken to allocate 30/40 pages here to such an intensetheoretical/philosophical diatribe was (in my opinion) slightly misplaced."The speech" was perhaps a prologue, a footnote, a students "cheat note" -but I felt it was out of place in the world created with this book. Itclearly and obviously represented the philosophical beliefs which providedthe foundation and backbone to the story; however, such a raw andextensive discussion only slowed the pace of the book, ultimately at theexpense of the story. It came at a crucial stage in the storyline andset-up a road block for the non-philosophically minded. Again, I know thatthis will be a contentious comment in the opinion of others.
Of course it did not spoil this wonderous work. For anyone reading thisreview , do yourself a favour, order a copy of this before you becomedistracted. It is an experience you will not forget and one that shouldnot be missed.
Book Review: Don't ask for it, take it!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you sometimes think or feel "Come on world, give me a break, cut me some slack, let me be me, I don't bother you so don't bother me, just let me do my stuff, I need some privacy here, give me some space!","Atlas Shrugged" will not make the world hear your plea and, as a gift, give you this, the book will give you the mindset and effortless energy to make that plea come true without pleaing in the first place, by taking it, grabbing it, claiming it all by yourself.
You won't struggle when you do that, you will do it effortless, empowered, in harmony, and enjoy it to the bones.
Stuying Atlas Shrugged might be liberating, empowering and fun, but might also be a struggle, an effort, energy-consuming, upsetting and difficult to the bones.
The book is liberatingly and healthily explosive, violent, powerful and uncompromising, and that is what the person who have studied and incorporated "Atlas Shrugged" will be as well.
As a bonus after studying "Atlas Shrugged", you will have the privilege of reading her other books.
Book Review: Don't ask for it, take it!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you sometimes think or feel "Come on world, give me a break, cut me some slack, let me be me, I don't bother you so don't bother me, just let me do my stuff, I need some privacy here, give me some space!","Atlas Shrugged" will not make the world hear your plea and, as a gift, give you this, the book will give you the mindset and effortless energy to make that plea come true without pleaing in the first place, by taking it, grabbing it, claiming it all by yourself.
You won't struggle when you do that, you will do it effortless, empowered, in harmony, and enjoy it to the bones.
Stuying Atlas Shrugged might be liberating, empowering and fun, but might also be a struggle, an effort, energy-consuming, upsetting and difficult to the bones.
The book is liberatingly and healthily explosive, violent, powerful and uncompromising, and that is what the person who have studied and incorporated "Atlas Shrugged" will be as well.
As a bonus after studying "Atlas Shrugged", you will have the privilege of reading her other books.
Book Review: The quintessence of everything people hate about Americans
Summary: 1 Stars
Egotism, spiritual shallowness ( or rather nothingness), COMPLETE ignorance of alternative paradigms, materialism, life based on values risen from comercial products & the way they're being promoted, lack of sympathy, lack of philanthrophy, all attributes of what Europeans hate about Americans, are very apparent in this book.In a way it's interesting to understand how the Americans think, especially in today's political climate. The book promotes a form of complete EGOISM and a kind of dog-eat-dog society (pretty well reflected in attributes of contemporary America's system, ie lack of public health care, workers' rights, etc)
The fact that this book has come to be reverred by Americans is the ultimate testimony, that the United States is very full of ignorant, spiritually shallow, narrow minded, egoistic "robots" completely deluded by the American political propaganda machine.
It is as said a good testimony of the intelectual capacity of a nation that voted George Bush for president.
Atlas shrugged is utter repuclican dogmatism and about as convincing as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.