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.

Yes

This book is amazing
Could not put down but too long to finish in one sitting

Worth the time

It really is a fun story, over the top, but it was thought provoking and addicting!

Amazing!

It's been a goal of mine to read this book. With the COVID-19 pandemic I found myself at home with my kids. No time like the present to finish a good book!
I didn't expect this book to be life changing, yet that's how I feel after listening. A paradigm shift aiming me to something brighter and better. I highly recommend this book! You'll be inspired and even though it's 64 hours of listening, you'll never want the story to end.

Foreshadowing

Amazing performance. Amazing story. Incredible that Ayn Rand was able to write a story that resonates with today’s political and social climate so well. This book serves as a warning of things that could come.

A must read for all thinkers!

I found this book absolutely staggering!
If you wish to grow you must read this!

it's time

One of those books I put off forever, Atlas Shrugged has some rants that most would just skip over but you actually hear on audio. The reader has an engaging voice and took the time to give voices to the characters.

The message is so clear

First off, the narrator does an amazing job transitioning between voices and ketone the listener engaged. With such a large book is crucial to have a good narrator and this book has it.

Ayn Rands message in this book is put together perfectly. She explains the slow shift of capitalism to socialism via dubious arguments made to look as if based on humanitarianism but actually servers laziness and greed. She shows what the eventual outcome would be. Her foundation and core message is that if we refuse to think, or to work or produce out of our own ability, and we give up our rights to the human mind, we are drones with no purpose. The themes in this book ring true for not just back then but highly applicable to now.

Holy s*** what a fantastic book!!!!

The themes in this book are very pertinent to the modern philosophical/political dialogue! Too many people are solipsists these days! Highly recommend it!

A herculean listener shrugs

A thought provoking listen for sure:

It’s like one more tortured Russian writer trying to process or escape through pure fantasy histories horrors by extreme individuality, extreme bureaucracy, morality and ethics with out God since the author is an Atheist - but that does not stop her from using evil as an endless hammer pounding it’s way along looking for an ideology based on a separatist individualism without responsibility to anything outside of the individual - the temple of me is very shallow - greed is not good - in a way it is the old elitism of Russia transposed on top of her crony capitalist view of American business sold as a level playing field based on merits and competition and hard work that really is more of the same endless tricks and hypocrisy of the old Russian elites and peasants who did the hard dirty work - she just took the old Russian social struggles of mass injustices between the have and have nots but worse the powerful and the week dominated by inverted motivations satisfactions delusions and megalomania of the histories sadists created by war extermination and re-education camps and folded transposed projected transferred centuries of guilt brutality cruelty and hate on top of the twisted American Robber baron Era - American greed is vastly different from Russian greed - but that’s what makes it such a great long term seller to be endlessly miss applied as some kind of philosophy given the most pathetic rambling disjointed pointless book ending ever - making this monster book a must read just because it’s been around since high school

Exeptional.Still so relevant for today

Long story .Love the reader's voice and presentation.Interesting story line and believable characters .Still relevant today.