Atlas ShruggedMake this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code RANDATLAS at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor—and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, 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 composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murder—and rebirth—of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.
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User Review - ChristopherSwann - LibraryThingAs I didn't finish this book (after trying twice), I feel a bit guilty for rating it. But only a bit. Here's what happens when a talented writer (and I think Rand was talented) writes a novel based on ... Read full review
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User Review - scottcholstad - LibraryThingUtter crap. Lightweight pseudo-philosopher given too much credit by those who don't understand philosophy or even the near-universal lack of acceptance of this author as a so-called philosopher by ... Read full review
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| Title | Atlas Shrugged A Plume book : Fiction |
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Plume, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0452286360, 9780452286368 |
| Length | 1168 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary |
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