Atlas Shrugged

I started reading this recently
Why does the left wing hate this so much?

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Because it is ALL FUCKING TRUE. TOO BAD THE BOOK CAN'T BE UPDATED.

Because nobody actually reads books anyway

I like this book because of my misanthropy. I see the shallow people all around who don't do shit for each other yet expect extreme collectivism and conformity and I think why should I sacrifice myself for people like this?

The book is so long it requires effort, dedication and work to read in its entirety. These are all things the left intrinsically dislikes.

Plus, I don't think there are two syllables in the world as guaranteed to immediately trigger a leftie as "Ayn Rand". She's the devil to them.

>Audiobook free on YouTube

Not an excuse user.

Almost picked this up at the bookstore yesterday because Sup Forums but it looked really boring

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>started reading Atlas Shrugged
You will never finish it. I am the only living human to read every word in that book, it drags and drags for days. Only finished it cause I was on a boat for three weeks with no other entertainment except a couple other books I quickly finished. It would be a good story if she cut 9 out of every 10 words, and would lose nothing except repetition.

Eh, its not bad, but it's held up as some holy grail. In doing so, It's reached hipster levels of pretentiousness

because it was written by a jew from the soviet union

Leftists like to think that the right wing doesnt go as far right as socialism goes left on the left wing. But atlas shrugged prooves that the right wing DOES go as far right as socialism goes left. The left hates that and wants the balance fulcrum to be further towards the left. They hate that atlas shrugged is the right wings equivalent to socialism.
The left is a bunch of shit eating inferiorboys.

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they have never read it
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She put a 50 year crimp in their agenda.

Ayn Rand is a Jew.

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It may be her worst book. Fountainhead is better. I have read every word. Actually twice. It is horribly written. At least 300 pages too long. You could skip the middle third fo the book.

And her personal life was atrocious. But she reminded Americans our country was built on the fact that the rights of the individual are a legitimate governments only responsibility.

Don't /thread yourself faggot.

because, it looks like a waste of time. i'm not going to read a fucking uber-capitalist novel. if i wanted to read rightist literature, there are plenty of serious 19-20th century reactionary or conservative philosophers to study.

This.

She addresses exactly this question in her forward to The Fountainhead (which was a much better book, IMO).

Atlas Shrugged was overtly political. Fountainhead was about individualism, and had little direct political statement otherwise. But you can tell the stupid people because all they remember about it was the rape scene.

Use that as your litmus test.

So true. I skipped a few chapters and still don't feel like I missed much. The Cliff's notes confirmed it.

It is the Libertarian version of the Communist manifesto. Might work with aliens, but not actual humans.

We're way to fucked up for that.

Oddly enough, those chapters were in the middle!
Glad to know I made the right call at the right time.

>t is the Libertarian version of the Communist manifesto.
except the latter was meant as a simple and short pamphlet for workers. no serious marxist takes it seriously. and it isn't a fucking novel

Jewish shit.
Ayn Susan is far superior...

can anyone give a tl;dr of what the books premise and overarching theme is?

What does it mean?

Ayn Rand sucks at fiction. If you want to know more about her or objectivity, read The Virtue of Selfishness and, Capitalism" The Unknown Ideal.

obejctivism*

>It is the Libertarian version of the Communist manifesto. Might work with aliens, but not actual humans.
Yes. I really enjoyed this book, but I've been a big fantasy fan since I was a kid. I think the left hates it because they have no imagination, so they think it's real and they're all going to rot and die when the productive classes get sick of their shit. It will never happen. The average person is far too nice to let these parasites get what they actually deserve.

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