like the movie? buy the book.

If you're here because of Atlas Shrugged, Part I, then you've only gotten part of the story.

If you believe in the rewards of hard work and individual achievement; if you believe that you should be the judge of what's best for you; if you believe that every man is given reason as the tool for providing for himself; if you believe that providing for yourself and your own is not only not a "sin," but both noble and beneficial to society as a whole; if you believe that you've already "paid" society, with work, for every dollar you've earned -- if you believe all of this, then don't stop at one movie.  Buy and read Atlas Shrugged -- a book that could change your life.  Don't think of it as a big book -- think of it as a small investment in yourself.

And for what it's worth -- the larger printings have larger print, and are much easier to read.  The printing on the pocket editions is ridiculously small.

Comments

[Pull My Finger...]

I read Atlas the first time in high school. I can't say I truly understood what it had taught me, but I would as the years pasted by. I have read it twice more. Funny how the left will attack Ayn Rand, at the drop of a hat. Granted she was somewhat strange, but her message was not.

So if you saw Part One, you owe it to yourself to read the book.

[A Taggart]

Get the book and read it! It's worth the effort and gets easier after 50 pages. The characters are engrossing. It's the second best book I've ever read! Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson was the best...:)

[TsunamiSteve]

I love how the movie has a bunch of no-name, b-list actors. It reminds me of the casting in the Left Behind series or any one of a large number of Mormon movies; real actors won't play in them because their agenda is so wacky as to be laughable. It's not because Hollywood is lefty, it's because Ayn Rand and her adherents are deeply mean and base social creatures.

[Daniel]

May not fully understand, because I only saw the movie only 1 hour ago (I will read the book, I will get it), but I remembered a part of the Bible:"And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage. They will not build and someone else have occupancy; they will not plant and someone else do the eating. For like the days of a tree will the days of my people be; and the work of their own hands my chosen ones will use to the full."

[Matthew Sawyer]

"I may sound like a liberal douche, but as a writer I'm Republican - I enjoy showing people scary things and frightening them with stories. This qualifies me to say "You know what? F**k Jon Galt." You people realize he is a fictional character, right? That whiny little princess lives in a fairytale. Worse, there are CEOs out there, our job-creators, who want to be him. The think they're each Cinderella and they'll be damned if his her low-income sisters and step mother will mooch of her because she inherited glass slippers." - oh, she worked for them, hmf.

[John Galt]

"I may sound like a liberal douche, but as a writer I'm Republican - I enjoy showing people scary things and frightening them with stories."

Translation: I may sound like a liberal douche, but as a writer I'm the liberal douche stereotype of a Republican, because we liberals think being Republican has something to do with scaring people.

Liberal douche.