Author:
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Published: Jun 2000
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - Adventure
Retail Price: $34.95
Discs: 10
It would be pointless to discuss either the logic or the feasibility of the program Miss Rand so vehemently puts forth. What is important is the spirit in which the book is written. Like THE FOUNTAINHEAD, ATLAS SHRUGGED is a defense of and a tribute to the superior individual, who is, in Miss Rand's view, superior in every way--in body as well as mind and especially in his capacity for life. Its spirit, regardless of the specific doctrines it preaches, is calculated to appeal to those who feel that life could and should have more meaning than they have experienced. Loudly as Miss Rand proclaims her love of life, it seems clear that the book is written out of hate. How well ATLAS SHRUGGED....Perhaps most of us have moments when we feel that it might be a good idea if the whole human race, except for us and the few nice people we know, were wiped out; but one wonders about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,168 pages and some fourteen years of work.
Atlas Shrugged is the best novel ever written! This is the third time I�ve listened to the audio book in the last 10 years. The epic struggle for individualism and passion for freedom from an ever more corrupt government forces one to look critically at the contemporary state of political economy in the U.S. Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for all Americans.