... ;s saying, page by page, and look at what you really think. I don't agree with it all. But the victory of Shrugged is that I have to make that decision. The book takes itself so seriously that you have to, too. You have to decide when it ... a lot of my own philosophies. I didn't buy it all, and while Rand may say that I failed her book, I still think that Atlas Shrugged wins a victory.

... , based on Ayn Rand's epic-length novel, Atlas Shrugged. Well, it appears that Jolie has quit. ... , begging off the project, the producers are now preparing to turn Atlas Shrugged into a mini-series on the new cable channel Epix, ... Hollywood, nothing is fact until the cameras roll—or until after they finish rolling. Atlas Shrugged is not yet at that stage and may never come to fruition.)"

... on the iPod in the player because I had decided that now was the time to listen to Atlas Shrugged. I had always thought that this was a piece that I should read in the old sense of the ... the human cogs in the book. I certainly did not intend to write a rant but well, it just came out. Atlas Shrugged just does this to people, if they get it.  Now I am enjoying the physicality of reading the last ...

... of Rand's government-choked dystopia in Atlas. It's a world with a struggling economy where political pull matters ... is full of stupid assertions that the economy is behaving as in Atlas Shrugged. They're patently false, but ought to pump the ... , book sales are a bad measure of how many readers a book actually has. Atlas Shrugged is such a miserable read that I suspect most people don&# ...

... it, an important cultural reference. For years I would hear or read a reference to Atlas Shrugged and wonder what the angle was. And who IS John Galt?! Some years ago I read enough ... or so. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, I don't think I can recommend Atlas Shrugged as either pleasure reading or to learn Rand's points. The writing is too tedious and summaries of the book's theme are ...

I concur with this review of the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged by the Russian-born American novelist and political philosopher Ayn Rand. The philosophy of Ayn Rand (developed during ... to vindicate her philosophy), there is much to be learned from Rand. Her essays are better than her novels - though even Atlas Shrugged is brilliant in parts. The premise is unique and promising ( ...