Comments on: Review: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand http://www.growthpop.com/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand GrowthPop is the community resource to learn and share about personal development media. Review, rate, and learn about books, movies, courses, workshops, games, and more, all related to personal developement and personal growth. Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:43:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jesse Dhillon http://www.growthpop.com/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand#comment-160 Jesse Dhillon Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:12:10 +0000 http://www.growthpop.com/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand#comment-160 Yknow, I have always simultaneously admired and despised this book. On the one hand, who cannot relate to an antagonist who rises and succeeds in the face of so many detractors pressuring her to remain among them in mediocrity. At the same time, I feel that Rand sacrificing writing believable characters in order to set up such flat, one-dimensional, unredeemable characters who embody the ideals of her ideological opponents. In other words, I find that she writes in stark, black and white. But she writes well and compellingly.<ul></ul> Yknow, I have always simultaneously admired and despised this book.

On the one hand, who cannot relate to an antagonist who rises and succeeds in the face of so many detractors pressuring her to remain among them in mediocrity. At the same time, I feel that Rand sacrificing writing believable characters in order to set up such flat, one-dimensional, unredeemable characters who embody the ideals of her ideological opponents.

In other words, I find that she writes in stark, black and white. But she writes well and compellingly.

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    Oh, wait! I just realized that was The Fountainhead, not Atlas Shrugged. Huh! Anyway…I’d still be curious to hear what you have to say about that. You might be inspiring me to pick up the book again.

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