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Chuckinca, How I do agree with you! But, both were worth it.
I somehow can't get into the EBooks. I want to smell the paper and feel the book and hear the crackling of the spine.
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I read it about 100 years ago. Not easy reading
I also read it about 100 years ago, and I remember I loved the book. Sadly, as is often the case these days, I can't recall much about it. Time for a reread.
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I also read it about 100 years ago, and I remember I loved the book. Sadly, as is often the case these days, I can't recall much about it. Time for a reread.
Me too Bare, I just won three of Ayn Rands books on Ebay for less than ten bucks including shipping.

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Like others, I read Atlas Shrugged about 100 years ago, and then again about 15 years ago. It's an intricate novel and provocative treatice in one. So, while long, it needs careful reading lest subtleties are lost.

Thought it was one of the best books I ever read, though some of her views are quite extreme and simplistic. For example, the book amplifies her belief in selfishness as the ultimate virtue and altruism as irrational.

The notion that conservatives would like her and liberals not-- I dunno about that. Her objectivism cut both ways. Yes, she was the ultimate Laissez faire capitalist and rugged individualist who favored minimal government. She was also an atheist and was pro choice.
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A hundred years ago when I read it, I was very young and impressionable. Since than, I have discovered the Social Contract and developed a conscious! Yeah, I'm a card-carrying liberal (and probably vote democratic too).
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Old 07-14-2012, 07:21 AM
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I have read the book at least 8 times and I have the unabridged audio book, which, as I recall, runs about 64 hours.... I have been trying to get my wife to read it and have been unsuccessful so I thought I would try to get her to listen to it as we were driving... She got through two discs and it simply did not interest her. Oh well...

Part II of the movie will be out this Fall (before the election) I did not feel that Part I did justice to the book, but who would want to see a 60 hour movie?

I don't think that the theme of the book will ever get old because the dynamics of the clash of the producers/takers will probably never change.

I do not believe that it is possible to read this book without thoughts of the current political environment in the world today.

A most enjoyable read.
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Old 07-14-2012, 08:07 AM
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same with how to kill 11 million people. can't read it without thinking about current political movement. I will get through this book sometime. It's been sitting on my bookshelf and I want to read it, it's so just sooooooooo long!!
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I checked out a DVD from the Villages Library. It was part I. When I brought it back I tried to put a hold on part II, but they told me they only had part I. So that was the end of that. I can't say that I was disapointed because it wasn't an easy movie to follow.
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