How does /biz/ think of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand?

I'm a card-carrying libertarian and I've never made it past the first 3 chapters

I read a good part of it, but got sick of reading all books and stopped. However I remember the Rearden metal, the great sex stuff, and that I couldn't place what year the damn thing was set in.

>>1078580
>carrying a card to show you abide by a certain political ideology
Why would you do this to yourself, familia?

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>>1079080
he means he has a library card... he must have just misspelled it

>>1078576
I loved it at first but as I grew up the book became terrible. Its literally the anti-socialism ramblings of a cocaine addictict.

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Hi rebbit

>>1079094
u ain't talkin to me son

>>1078584
Well I finished it and you didn't miss much except some 30 page rant by John Galt aka Rand. Would not read again, fact of the matter is people do things when you put a gun to their heads, doesn't matter what happens in Rands Utopian fantasy world.

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>>1078576
It makes good toilet paper.

Pic related: the author.

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>>1079452

This whole thread... Seriously?

Amazing story, amazing characters, incredible philosophical content.

Rand was a genius.

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>>1078576
Absolute cancer.

>>1079457
Seriously going to post that cock sucker?

John Rogers wrote the screen play for car woman.

Cat. Fucking. Woman.

>>1079457
this
> weathly autists fight over daddy's money and don't want to share.
> instead of paying taxes they build a private island run by an powerplant that produces endless power
> lots of weird sex

>>1079466
Again. The guy who made that quote wrote cat woman.

One of the worst movies ever made.

>>1079466
The sex is hot.

If any of you fuckers ever made anything in your life. And then had to listen to someone who couldn't change their own oil if their life depended on it tell you what's wrong with it, maybe the book would have meant something to you.

This is coming from someone that's designed products sitting on major retailers shelves right now.

>>1078576

It's a good book, especially in the way it exposes the true motives and methods of the leftests of the world. It is especially useful if you read The Fountainhead first.

A lot of the book is pretty bad. Her views on sex are questionable to say the least. And the ending looks like it was thrown together at the last minute.

But if you look past the bad, you're still left with a very good book in many ways.

>>1078576
Im a self proclaimed objectivist, I say i like it. She was the first to say rational self-interest (capitalism) was actually morally good. Ever altruistic system always ends in failure, yet its always deemed good hence mother teresa and jesus christ.... Two hacks that actually promote evil moral codes

Sure is Reddit in here

Worse version of stirner

>>1079466
Is what you described supposed to sound bad? Because it sounds fucking amazing. Link me to whoever did that.

>>1078576
jesus this post again

>>1079774
That's the plot of Atlas Shrugged Anon.

>>1078576
I think Randall Munroe had the right of it when he said "The problem with Ayn Rand is that I always agree with the first 90% of what she says but have a huge problem with the 'Therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone' bit".