Atlas Shrugged

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Atlas Shrugged

Auteur(s): Ayn Rand

Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann

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"Who is John Galt?" is the immortal question posed at the beginning of Ayn Rand's masterpiece. The answer is the astonishing story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world and did.

As passionate as it is profound, Atlas Shrugged is one of the most influential novels of our time. In it, Rand dramatizes the main tenets of objectivism, her philosophy of rational selfishness. She explores the ramifications of her radical thinking in a world that penalizes human intelligence and integrity.

Part mystery, part thriller, part philosphical inquiry, part volatile love affair, Atlas Shrugged is the book that confirmed Ayn Rand as one of the most popular novelists and most respected thinkers of the 20th century.

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this book is among her greatest and uses a story about a female industrialist trying futilely to hold together a world where those with ability are exploited by a parasitic bureaucratic class without ability and the stolen benefits thrown to ever expanding hordes of the needy. if only need is rewarded, would not the sensible realize that to be needy is better than to be able? eventually, the able go on strike - they refuse to keep wasting their life and health holding up the rest of a society that despises them for their competence even as it is dependent on them. the world collapses but with some hope of a rebirth.

one does not need to agree with all her points to appreciate the book for what it is.

there seems to be several reasons people would dislike this book:
1) they are looking for a good story with believable characters. as Rand has explained elsewhere, her stories are meant to be a sort of parable to explain ideas rather than to be taken literally.
2) they hate Ayn Rand. it is a fashion requirement in certain circles to hate Rand. you don't need to actually read her if this is you: most in those circles never have but just act as if they had any idea what she was talking about. it's a bit like that Ayatollah putting a price on Rushdie's head without even reading the offending book. I do wonder if people would hate her so much if she wasn't that rare woman who dared to dabble in the manly world of philosophy. or if her real name wasn't Alisa Rosenbaum.
3) they recognize themselves in the bureaucratic parasite or helpless looter classes from the book. these people would likely fall into group 2 anyway.
4) they don't share and can't ignore Rand's somewhat Dom-Sub preferences in sex. although there is no graphic detail, considering when the book was published, it will be a distraction to those of use who are particularly sensitized to even symbolic or consentual violence in sex. one can skip them as they are brief and add nothing really to the story.