Atlas Shrugged

Hardcover, 1168 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 1957 by Random House.

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978-0-394-41576-5
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Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

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Golly gosh.

I finally finished Atlas Shrugged after what feels like a marathon of time. In fact, checking my Kobo, it has taken 32.6 hours to read all 1194 pages of Ayn Rand's magnum opus and to be honest, I felt every page after the 800th.

This book is clearly two books rolled together, a treatise on Rand's philosophy mixed together with a mediocre novel about the fall and rediscovery of civilisation. Rand's philosophy is self-described as take it or leave it, she accepts no compromise of her viewpoint. Any compromise is a breaking of her philosophy and thus, is not her philosophy.

The novel is told from the viewpoint of the heroine, Dagny Taggart, as she witness the last days of civilisation due to man kinds misguided philosophies. Dagny is a surprisingly strong, if single-dimensional character, and is somewhat before her time. Until we talk about sex. Which is …

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