Johnnyorganic
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It's about a revolution where the producers and achievers in the world finally got sick of being called greedy, of being punished for their success, so they quit. As they dropped off one by one, the looters and moochers continued making it harder for the survivors to justify sticking around. Eventually they quit, too, and society collapses around the heads of the high-minded altruists.what's this about?
This book changed my life. Once you read this book, your perception of the world is altered. I've read it twice before and I am reading it once again. It always seems to give me the encouragement I need when I need it most.
Yeah, it's a tad dated. Ayn Rand can be a little preachy and long winded, but reading it again in the wake of all that is currently happening is amazing.
Calling Atlas Shrugged, a book which has sold 6,250,000 copies, irrelevant is naive. I read it about once every ten years. I have never purchased it new. I did not ever have to do so because it has not gone out of print. Each time, I acquired a used paperback copy and then gave it away after reading it. My current copy was found in a used bookstore for peanuts. I'm sure I'll pass this copy along, too.
http://atlasshrugged.com/book/history.htmlMost remarkable about a novel in print for 50 years is the increasingly strong trend in sales over recent years. Paperback sales by New American Library to the book trade averaged 77,600 copies a year in the 1980s, 95,200 copies a year in the 1990s, and in the current decade have averaged 134,600 a year. After 50 years, annual sales are reaching all-time highs. Penguin Group (USA) currently publishes four editions: hardcover, two trade paperback editions, and one mass-market edition.
I dare say that anyone who dismisses this book out of hand has never bothered to read it.