All memes aside, what is your real opinion of Atlas Shrugged?

>>9689611

Why don't you just read the book and come up with your own opinion instead of blindly forging one based on the opinions of others?

>>9689611
Decent book, great philosophy

>>9689726
Because I'm a sheep, baa, baa

>>9689611

Really boring capitalist fanfiction.

>>9689611
I like some of the concepts in it, especially when you transpose Ayn Rands early life under communism against the books message.

I also don't even mind the speech about money/currency. A little long, yeah, but I like what it had to say. Again though, it's a matter of taste.

Overall, if you have time it's an interesting look into someones philosophy without being a direct lift of said philosophy, but it is very much a taste you either have or don't have.

Also, 'Who is John Galt' is one of my favorite bits of the philosophy, even if I don't like everything around it.

>>9689611
If you GENUINELY want to know, you should have read one of the 1000+ threads on this book in the archive.

Now get lost.

I don't get her culty following. I do think it's funny when objectivists suggest Ayn Rand should be mandatory reading in high school though.

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It triggers leftists because Rand experienced communism fiest hand and plasms it perfectly on the book.

>>9689611
It's shit and people who read Rand are abos who love slirppin their own watery shit when thirsty.

>>9690697
atles strugled should not, but her theory of concepts may be one of the most educational things a scolar could learn

I read it and the fountainhead to better make fun of one of my friends who loved Rand. Atlas Shrugged felt at best like a cheaply written Dan Brown tier mystery/action story with a philosophy very poorly shoehorned in. Not worth reading, and the radio speech is monotonous and out of place. I would actually recommend the Fountainhead if you want to try a hit of the Randjuice. It touches upon her ideas in a much less painful way, and the story is far better with more complete characters.

>>9691524
this

>>9689611
I read it few years ago. I didn't really like the prose or the characters or the plot. Finding out that Galt was just an actual guy was a letdown, and the lengthy speech at the end has no place in a novel, much less at its concluding moment. 2/5.

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