Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 62 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.

In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts?

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, he sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers will be revealed once you discover the reason behind the baffling events that wreak havoc on the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book.

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apologia for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who had never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms.

©1985 Eugene Winick, Paul Gitlin and Leonard Peikoff (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

I have enjoy thls book 7 times in about 9 years.

i have recommended this book to over 20 people that need to hear it. enjoy

Great narrator and an incredible book!

It took me close to a month to finish this audiobook. I'm very grateful to have had the privilege to listen to it.

No better story on the triumph of the mind

Loved it! This is my second time reading this book but the first time on audible. I have no complaints whatsoever.
Great story and great narrator

Awesome

If you could sum up Atlas Shrugged in three words, what would they be?

Compelling, intriguing, scary

Who was your favorite character and why?

John Gault, he was "the man"!

Which scene was your favorite?

When Ragnar blew up the plants trying to make Reardon metal.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Dagne returned to New York to resume her job after the plane crash

Any additional comments?

I heard people critical of the narator, Steve Brick(?), I thought he did an awesome job. If you are for the free market, this is a must read, (listen).

thought provoking

loved this book.in my personal opinion it is highly applicable to today's society. I would highly recommend it.

Awesome Novel, scary how close to our current real

This book was so very thought provoking and seems to be written about our future that we are going toward.

Who am I to question Ayn Rand?

In the age of the deserving and the taken for granted; this song or book sings true. Should be required reading everywhere.

It makes you a better person.

Great Book

Where does Atlas Shrugged rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

So far the best

What did you like best about this story?

how well she represented in a novel written a long time ago, everything that is happening today in our world, sad but true.

Any additional comments?

its an eye opener, just hope that more people read this.

Goes from very decent to utterly vile..

I loved the fountainhead. This book started off in the same vein. But by the middle of the third part, the philosophy was being beaten over the reader's head. The repetition was unbelievable and borderline unbearable. The philosophy is great while it applies to a single individual (as in the Fountainhead), but becomes horrific when applied to a broader context. People are killed and sacrificed for the sake of this philosophy, because apparently anyone who does not live under these principles, does not live at all and deserves death. Rand refers to her antagonists as savages, not realizing that her protagonists are even worse. I found myself sympathizing with her antagonists more than her protagonists, which is a failure on the book's part.

The audiobook was excellent. The reader is a bit slow, but he gets the emotions of the characters and the cadence of the novel. Don't fall asleep to this book, as you'll have very restless dreams, but otherwise the audio component of the product was good.

much to interpret. keeps the mind turning.

there are sections that move slowly and you really have to be in the moment to get through them without conflict of impatience. but I intent on going back and listening over sections especially the sections to really dive in that moment. the length of the book made me eager to finish.