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Title: Atlas Shrugged: Centennial Edition
ISBN: 0452286360
Author:
Ayn Rand
Publicate Date: 2004-12-28
Publish: 2004-12-28
List Price: $25.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Important literary classic
You are likely in for an awsome experience if you have not yet read Ayn Rand's masterwork yet.
Atlas Shrugged is a greatly crafted, exciting mystery story about what can happen to men and society if reason and the values that depend on reason are abandoned.
But make sure to start reading it in your vacation: The book is long (1168 pp.) and contains lengthy challenging philosophical speeches on such topics as the morality of sex, the morality of capitalism, and much more.
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2: Very poor binding on the Centennial Edition
The book wasn't my cup of tea, so to speak; but more importantly, the Centennial Edition copy of "Atlas Shrugged" almost fell apart the first time I open it. It has an insert in the middle and at that point the weight of half the book on the parperback binding pilled it apart as soon as it opened-up. Bottom line, if you like Ayn Rand, look for another printing.
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3: Everyone should read this book!
If this book was a staple of high schools, the world would be a better place. If you like logic and critical thinking (and economics) this books is a treatise on capitalism and the disaster that ensues when its gutted. A preachy ending spoiled the punch, but otherwise highly recommended!
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4: Good Book, Terrible Paperback Binding
My advise is to stay away from this paperback edition. I purchased the book new through Amazon. The pages are improperly clipped and ragged on the edges and some of the pages are diagonal. The paper also appears to be the acid type or at least low quality.
This is a poor excuse for a bound paperback Centennial edition of such a great author.
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5: One of The Great Novels
I first read Atlas Shrugged almost 30 years ago on the advice of a friend, who described it as the best book he had ever read. I also found it to be in that class. It had a profound effect on me. I was moved by it toward a (even more) conservative view of politics and econimics, to the extent of becoming a little too "mean-spirited" and maybe a little paranoid.
I realize now that Ms. Rand is considered by some, accurately in my estimation, to have been an extremist . . . in the extreme. She was also an atheist, which viewpoint leaves one without hope outside of this world. Notwithstanding, her message regarding the liberal, anti-business, free lunch crowd rings through with refreshing clarity and plainly spoken truth. There is much wisdom in her "objectivist" philosophy and as a bonus, this story wraps it in an epic, hard-to-put-down novel.
This is one of the great books of the 20th century. Recommended.
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