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#222273 - 2009-03-02 20:33:50 Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. It was Rand's fourth, longest, and last novel. Afterward, she completed only non-fiction works, concentrating on philosophy, politics, and cultural criticism.

At over one thousand pages in length, she considered Atlas Shrugged to be her magnum opus.[1] The book explores a number of philosophical themes that Rand would subsequently develop into the philosophy of Objectivism.[2][3] It centers on the decline of Western civilization, and Rand described it as demonstrating the theme of "the role of man's mind in existence." In doing so it expresses many facets of Rand's philosophy, such as the advocacy of reason, individualism, and the market economy.

As indicated by its original working title The Strike, the plot device is a general strike by elements of the intellectual and entrepreneurial class led by the protagonist John Galt.
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I find it that it will be a good read for me.
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#222274 - 2009-03-02 20:35:53 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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Pages Long: 1069
Font Size: Probably 2! tongue (Though it is really small!)
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#222278 - 2009-03-02 20:54:01 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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#222372 - 2009-03-03 05:13:34 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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I read that once, but I need to read it again.
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#222399 - 2009-03-03 09:53:20 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Kountzer]
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I am currently on page 14 and it is kinda of hard. I understand most of it but they keep on going with too many details about little things.
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#222406 - 2009-03-03 10:13:29 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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And you got how many more pages to go? Sounds like a real thriller!!! Can't put it down, I bet?

You would probably like one of her other books better, one named Anthem. Very short but interesting. It's a futuristic book a little bit like Brave New World and 1984.

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#222424 - 2009-03-03 11:53:34 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: John317]
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... Brave New World... It is this game I play. Well, it is a place in the game that I play. And Anthem is written by the sam author.
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#222435 - 2009-03-03 12:50:06 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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Anthem is a wonderful book. I have not read any of her other titles.
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#222442 - 2009-03-03 13:12:13 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: Cosmin M.]
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Have you read Brave New World? It should be read along with 1984 and an obscure but very good book, WE, by a Russian writer, Zamyatin. The story is told as a diary written by a character named D-503. WE was an influence on George Orwell.

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#222443 - 2009-03-03 13:22:19 Re: Starting to read- Atlas Shrugged [Re: jlbyrd]
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I only read parts of her first novel, We the Living, about life under communism in post-revolutionary Russia in the early 1920s. It's sort of autobiographical and is written in a more traditional style than the one she adopted for her other books. I don't like her more "philosophical" novels. If I want to read philosophy I'll read it in books on philosophy.

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