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A review by abhishek_tiwari
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3.0
Atlas Shrugged is a good book, despite most people doubting the relevance of its philosophy of extreme capitalism, the book contains ideas that can be applied still today irrespective of the times we live in.
Having said that, I think the message could have been delivered without stretching the story to death over a 1000-pages. It could also have done away with the never-ending speech by John Galt at the end but then it would not have been the philosophical manifesto it is known to be. I found that the ending also irked me a little with how the main characters who are the brightest of the people left on the earth take to vigilantism and killing to rescue John.
The thing I liked the most about the story was the brilliant character development arcs written for each of the prominent characters. Perhaps the length of the book gave the author sufficient bandwidth to work with and this is evident when you are halfway through this book and you look back to see how far the characters you are reading about have come.
Having said that, I think the message could have been delivered without stretching the story to death over a 1000-pages. It could also have done away with the never-ending speech by John Galt at the end but then it would not have been the philosophical manifesto it is known to be. I found that the ending also irked me a little with how the main characters who are the brightest of the people left on the earth take to vigilantism and killing to rescue John.
The thing I liked the most about the story was the brilliant character development arcs written for each of the prominent characters. Perhaps the length of the book gave the author sufficient bandwidth to work with and this is evident when you are halfway through this book and you look back to see how far the characters you are reading about have come.