Robert B. (SGTBob) reviewed on 8/6/2013 + 156 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Wow! Wow! and Wow. That pretty much sums up this book. I purchased this book about two years ago with the intent to read it quickly. Boy was I in for a big shock.
1168 pages and NOT large print.

I enjoyed the book after I got through Part I. This part of the book sets up all that occurs in Parts II and III. Once I began Part II, I was "hooked", I found it difficult to put it down. Ayn Rand has written several books, but I've been told, by several people, that Atlas Shrugged is the climax of her work in Philosophy.

In reading the book I can see the events in the book happening around the country today, although you have to maintain a perspective that the book is FICTION.

Considering that the book was written in 1957, it is incredible that Ayn Rand was perceptive enough to see these events play out in our modern (2013) world today.

I may read this book again, but it won't be for at least two more years.

If Part I would have been a little less wordy and more exciting I would have given this book 5 stars, but it wasn't (for me), so I didn't.

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