Chris iliff Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) Prophetic, I loved it. Also 2nd to the bible for me. A definite reread in the future. Edited to say: Ayn Rand was not a believer and definitely not an espouser of religion. Just a note to anyone who would be put off about that and decide not to read it. Edited September 15, 2010 by fourtrax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingchef Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 One of my favorite books and certainly applies to the times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveU Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 I bought it, read it, then signed and date the inside cover and gave it away. I hope it starts a tradition. Unbelievable book. Very inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 (RE: Shrugged) It's a powerful, magical book full of intellectual nuances that I think Hollywood would probably overlook or be forced to skip over in the name of condensing the whole story for the big screen AND making it palatable to the average theater-goer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveU Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 A movie has been "in the works" for over 35 years..... I agree with you, Sig Lady, I can't see all the complicated messages/character development, etc working on the screen. Guess we'll find out soon, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Film_and_television_adaptations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver8M3 Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 i read atlas in the mid 90s, just as i was beginning to develop my own political beliefs. i loved it, and consider it the best book i've ever read. it's hard to see in this crappy pic, but here's the bumper sticker i have on my car. (Where is John Galt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caspian guy Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) Good book... Found Atlas in my late teens after reading The Fountainhead for a lit class assignment and wanting to read more. For my money, better they don't even try to make a movie of it. The treatment the Fountain Head got at the hands of Hollywood was bad enough. Besides, who out there these days with enough pull to get something made would agree with the ideas in the book anyway. I always thought that the prevailing mindset in that industry was more or less diametrically opposed to Ayn Rand's philosophical leanings. Edited October 28, 2010 by caspian guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry weeks Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 As with Blackstone, most influential, after the Bible, for me. Read it at 24 or 25 and it changed me from a liberal to a conservative. I'd recommend reading The Fountainhead first, as primer. I read it three times through my 20s and 30s. Always struggled with the first 100 pages and have never made it all the way through the Radio Speech - I'd gotten the point by then. Really is frightening how prophetic it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark K Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 (edited) I had always wanted to read it, but the size always put me off. Then I decided to get it in an UNABRIDGED audio version of it. I think it is a life changing book. (I did Fountainhead the same way). I talked my (then) 20yr old daughter into reading it. It was a life changer for her as well. When watching the news, or reading something online of current politics, she quite frequently says "Have these people never read Ayn Rand!!" I am still working on my (now) 20 yr old son to listen/read it. No luck yet, but he is already pretty conservative. Another good, short, read is this: Rudyard Kipling To save you a google search: Copy book headings - In old english schools they taught english, and more specifically penmanship with copy books - each page had a saying like "the wages of sin is death", and a student would copy this phrase over and over down the page. I am in between books, and may just do "Atlas" again. Mark K. Edited November 8, 2010 by Mark K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken hebert Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 I will admit to being a philistine so far.. I've been trying to get into atlas shrugged, but cant. last i looked i was about 80 or so pages into it and keep putting it down in favor of others. latest is a re-read of some Peter Hathaway Capstick. at this rate i'll be through with it by the time i hit 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromepulse Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek45 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 they are making it into a movie.... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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