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.

Overstating the obvious.

Though never to be, this novel should be a required read to be allowed to vote.

Those of us not remembering the past, either by ignorance or by deliberate stupidity (and thus allowing it) truly ARE doomed to repeat it.

60+ years after this epic work we are yet again in another repeat of the cycle foretold by Ayn Rand and leaving us a most disturbing question once again: will this time be “the one”?

fantastic! Should be considered nonfiction

Great book. Mirrors today's world to the point that it should be considered nonfiction.

Scott Brick is fantastic! his narration and inflections we're perfect and painting the picture for me of the characters and what was going on throughout the book. Great job.

I swear by my life and my love of it...

this book is awesome
Scott Brick did a wonderful job.
Ayn Rand has completed her most powerful work of art.

Good books

Good read but pretty long, maybe try the abridged version instead. You need to plan a full week for this one

good reading, ok book

a wonderful reading, but the book is terribly long and extremely repetitive, especially in how the dialogue is structured.

this is not a book...

this is a fictionalized essay. much easier to read if you understand that. highly recommend, bit not light reading by any stretch.

Ahhh!!!

Best book I’ve ever read/listened too! Great narration too. Highly recommend. A lot of themes that are relevant in today’s world. Thought provoking.

Intellectually stimulating

Inspiring characters, difficult topics, eloquently addressed. Presents two extremes, depicting the innobility of the one and the nobility of the other. Thus subjective, but a valuable illustration.

most important book i have ever read

I do not think i could begin to put into words what this book means to me as I am not a author. I believe you should read this book and look at its meaning for the sake of our failing society. The only way i can describe how i feel at the end of this book is...enthusiasm for life!!!

Don't believe the lies.

This may be the greatest book ever written. You should read it or at least hear it.