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    I don't understand how it became so popular, because it was terrible. I was only able to read it for the reason that it is divided into three parts, otherwise I would have thrown it out long ago. What's wrong with that? I will tell.

    About the plot. Bad socialists are destroying the country's economy, the heroine is trying to save the business and along the way find out where most entrepreneurs and creative people have gone.

    So that you understand this is the plot of the book, which was divided into three parts, where each page has 770 pages. How did it happen? And it's simple, most of the books are monologues and a love triangle. I'm not kidding, she just repeats her ideas, without presenting anything new in them, and they are all based on "Objectivism is good, Capitalism is cool, and the rest is shit on the sole."

    There are two ideas that are being preached here. I like the first one: "Love what you do." This is a good idea, but I absolutely don't like the second one, namely the philosophy of objectivism. In short, what it means: "Spit on everyone, think only about your success, the rest is just a hindrance, and that's when you'll be the best." There's nothing wrong with the idea itself, but here's how it's presented. All people who come up with their ideology and philosophy have one distinctive feature, their worlds work only if there are ideal people and work only on paper. That communism sounded good only on paper, that objectivism works only under "superhumans" and convenient circumstances.

    There are no characters here, only puppets who speak the author's ideas. And she used a cheap move. All the positive characters are all handsome in a row, they seem to have come out of fashion magazines, and all the negative ones (I repeat all) are ugly and scary, like ugly bastards from Hentai. And at the same time, I also think that the economy in this world is collapsing because of the positive characters, because they just reveled in how great they are, and they did not bother to train their workers. So that you understand, they fixed all the problems themselves, not the workers. Of course, the economy will collapse from such leaders.

    The text here is bad. He looks like a man with no experience in writing, trying to be like the thinkers of the 20th century. And if you thought the sex scenes from "50 Shades of Grey" were terrible, you just haven't read this book.

    This book is terrible. It was written by a woman who didn't understand economics, who thought she was a philosopher. She claims that without Atlanteans, the world will collapse. So let's see, the creator of the TVs died, but they still exist and they have progressed, Steve Jobs died, and the Apple campaign is still there and making good money, everyone who created the light bulb died, but they still exist. Most of the things created a long time ago are still there, and their creators "Atlanteans" have long died. I wonder why our world hasn't collapsed yet. And the best answer to the idea of this book is the game "Bioshock", which showed what would happen if such a world existed.

    by mystery5009

    8 Comments

    1. RobertEmmetsGhost on

      Generally speaking the only people who seem to think Ayn Rand’s work has any literary merit are those who completely agree with the political views she uses her books to promote.

    2. Due-Satisfaction-796 on

      This is a very popular opinion between philosophers and economists. Ayn Rand is despised and completely ignored in those fields.

    3. If you view it through the lens of “this is the favorite book of some truly terrible people”, it makes more sense.

    4. I think there is a modern-day consensus among people with common sense that “Atlas Shrugged” is garbage.

    5. nocreativity207 on

      Ha, yeah. I really liked The Fountainhead, and was excited to read Atlas, but holy crap, I was just reading it to get through it. I was literally reading it while making a list for the grocery store. I quit after about a quarter of the wat through it. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t care nor do I remember anything about it.

    6. InterestingCabinet41 on

      The book is only popular among those who love hearing their own ideas repeated back to them. It’s an echo chamber for those that already have Rand’s economic worldview. I felt like it started off kind of interesting (Who is John Galt?) but it didn’t take very long before I did not care who he was.

    7. When I was young and entitled, I was fairly well aligned with Ayn Rand. Athiest. Laissez faire capitalist. Generally Libertarian. As my worldview expanded I realized that I was just being selfish. It’s the philosophy of a 6-year-old.

      Plus, Ayn Rand writing is awful. Does anyone actually read those endless monologues?

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