suepslew's Full Review: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Lit...
This is a book about power, ethics, struggle and basically confidence in every one of us. It is also about humanity and class.
When I was asked to read this book for an essay assignment, I went, okay. Being a poor student, I borrowed the book from a library. I was a little disappointed at the thickness of the book. When the first page was flipped, the second followed, then the third.... and I it was just fantastic.
It made me think critically when reading Atlas Shrugged. It is a combination of both philosophy and fiction. Why we do the things that we do? How people succeed, and what others think of success or cope with the pressure of being successful?
This is definitely not a book for someone who is looking for some light reading. Ayn Rand's philosophy is unique and interesting indeed. It takes a special person to be bold enough to express his/her philosophy known as "Objectivism".
One qoute which I find interesting from the book is:
"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?..."
Another quoted from the same character:
"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. "
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