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    <body><![CDATA[This book really makes you take a good hard look at yourself and your behavior, which is why I think a lot of people don't like this book.  It's a lecture and most people don't like to get lectured.  I loved it.  It gave me a good swift kick in the ass.  While I've never been a &quot;looter,&quot; I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14340830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, as much as I detest it, is actually rather useful. Those who have read it tend to be those whom I most especially desire to avoid. Because those who have read it are invariably proud of the fact--ostentatiously so--it is even easier for me to keep my life free and clear of delusional egom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1693521">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As Ayn Rand's immortal opus, Atlas Shrugged, stands as a tome to a philosophy that is relevant today as it was in her time. Basically, the major moral theme is that there are two types of people in the world: the Creators and the Leeches.<br/><br/>The Creators are the innovators who use the power ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15266044">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Favorite Quotes</strong><br/><br/>He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.<br/><br/>She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/470087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn, my dear, dear friend. If only I knew how to pronounce your first name. Anyway. I have read only one of Rand's books, Atlas Shrugged. Since this seems to be generally accepted as her opus magnum, there didn't seem much point to me reading her other books, especially as finding the literary relev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32160029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I personally have a deep attachment to this book, and am less confused about why people call me Dagny...I am oft accused of having little emotion or being 'stand offish' because I am direct when making a point.  I must admit, in modern society, it is quite a disadvantage to know philosophy, math, ph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6678509">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the most overrated piece of crap of the twentieth century.  It spars only with Dianetics and in its absolute absurdity.<br/><br/>The characters are absolutely idealized 'heroes of capitalism' action figures.  I wonder if Rand imagined some of these great barons of industry coming to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1543769">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me damn near forever to get through it (just to arrive at an unsatisfying ending) but I enjoyed the bulk of Rand's writing in Atlas Shrugged.  This was Ayn Rand's magnum opus designed to demonstrate her philosophy &quot;objectivism.&quot;  Long story short this book is about mid-20th-century...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1028761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely terrible.<br/>Imagine an analogous situation:<br/>A white supremacist writes a book in which all the white characters are great and all the black characters are awful. If you were to read that book and as a result buy into white supremacy; that would make you an utter utter fool.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5889290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged is a ferocious defense of the concept of capitalism.  Although Rand depicts capitalism from her objectivist perspective and makes monumental over-exaggerations, she succeeds in demonstrating the importance of such basic social necessities as self sufficiency, personal responsibility, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27551978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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