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ATLAS SHRUGGED BY AYN RAND BOOK REVIEW
What is Ayn Rand's objectivism? You won't find your answer within her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged.
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ATLAS SHRUGGED BY AYN RAND BOOK REVIEW

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@kabiansadi Год назад

I read this book and to be honest I liked it. The characters are whacky and the end sucks, but the portrait of the decay of a society over colectivism is realistic and tragic. I live in a latin american country and could see many things that really happened here in this novel. It's a little terrifying.

@dancegregorydance6933 Год назад

Rand grew up in the Soviet Union so she knows a thing or two about a decaying collectivist society.

@laurasalo6160 Год назад

@@dancegregorydance6933 amen. I completely appreciate her views, given the Hell on Earth she lived thru. I think many Westerners just have no clue about how very very ugly it was in Soviet Russia.

@vely8592 Год назад

I mean the constant interference of the US in Latin America by overthrowing democratically elected governments - mostly socialist government, quelle surprise - backing violent military coups, reinstating puppet dictators and extracting resources historically is the main source of poverty, violence and decay in Latin America and is suspiciously but not all surprisingly missing from your analysis.

@groovy3443 Год назад

Maybe whatever happened to your country had more to do with American interventionism rather than "collectivism" . smfh. your ancestors prolly rolling in their graves

@MZH47 Год назад

Funniest review I've heard so far but so on point! What a ride that 3 hour speech was. I listened to the audiobook version and I felt like my brain started to melt during that part. Took me 3 separate occasions to get through it. Ending was lackluster after all that wording for idle talk.

@TH3F4LC0Nx Год назад

Full disclosure, We the Living is actually one of my favorite books, but that doesn't mean I'm an acolyte or anything. 😅 Honestly I didn't even finish Atlast Shrugged; the cardboard characters and weird masochistic sex got tiresome after a while. 😂 I dunno though; Rand actually did help me some in my life; I think she showed me some things I hadn't really seen before. And plus, love her or hate her, she was one of a kind. I really appreciate your overall take on this book; neither adulatory nor damning, but impartial. Great vid! 😊

@KDbooks Год назад

Is We the Living your fave because it’s the shortest 😂

@TH3F4LC0Nx Год назад

@@KDbooks Lol,😅,nah, that one just hit me hard for some reason. It's at least a fairly commendable work, actually, I think. It's a genuine story, not just a philosophical diatribe. The characters were better too, and the ending was honestly kind of a gut punch. If you ever decide to read another Rand book, go with that one. 😊

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Well I think he was mostly damning since he laughed and smiled a lot in the video.

@KDbooks Год назад

@@TH3F4LC0Nx I’m up for reading more Rand.

@laurasalo6160 Год назад

Someone suggested to try thinking of the character not as people but as an ideal person. I hope that makes sense.

@oliviacrocker3467 Год назад

To each his own…I read this in high school, listened as an audiobook a few years later. Don’t agree with the philosophy, but actually quite enjoyed the book 😅 Am I mad

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

I appreciate you for your honesty and as someone with a high tolerance for excruciating pain.

@KDbooks Год назад

John Galt would be proud of you Olivia 😂

@RICHIEV333 8 месяцев назад

The first third of the book about the John Galt line is one of the most compelling stories ever written. I myself don't agree on her philosophy on love/sex (If it feels good do it) Nor her views on charity, (As a believer in God I think we are obligated to help the poor) However, the story of Dagny building the John Galt line is just amazing, the epic love story between her and Francisco (In which she does not stick the landing) is also amazing and when it specifically comes to her philosophy, you get more from a book on philosophy you disagree with than on you agree with.

@Neerdowellofyesteryear Месяц назад

Reread it as an adult

@patrickellsworth5427 Год назад

This book is a book of ideas. The characters are one-dimensional, but the storyline is brilliant. Atlas Shrugged is a fascinating look at what's happening in the West right now. The characters' speeches are too long; she could've edited them some. Atlas Shrugged has some flaws, and it's not for everyone, but it's a masterpiece.

@deadpoetsociety1111 Год назад

Ah yes it's a masterpiece..i have not been able to gather the courage to do a discussion of it yet on my channel. But boy, oh boy, i re-read it every time I feel lost. It is a way of life!

@lich109 9 месяцев назад

But the storyline has no basis in reality, to the point its premise, that of an overbearing government cracking down on billionaires while their employees cannot run the companies without them because they are the ones who make the company valuable, are both false.

@nedmerrill5705 Год назад

Yeah - I skipped those 70 or so "This is John Galt speaking" pages near the end. I didn't need the harangue at that point in the story, even if it is about Objectivism. But the thing about _Atlas Shrugged_ is that it has created a controversy that has existed from it's publication to the present day. The controversy will keep the novel alive. I heartily disagree with you about _The Fountainhead._ To me, _The Fountainhead_ is the much superior of the two. But then, _The Fountainhead_ is very personal to me; it got me headed in the right direction in my life. I needed a little of the feisty spirit that Howard Roark has to get my act together.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Well hope your new feisty spirit doesn't cause you to blow up anything!

@nedmerrill5705 Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Don't tempt me.

@brittneycray Год назад

I'd like to be able to tell people I've read Gravity's Rainbow...you don't mind, do you?

@KDbooks Год назад

You wave that completion banner

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Are you saying you actually READ that fraudulent pile of pages or just making another joke about it?

@LiteratureScienceAlliance Год назад

I have read this before for a stupid scholarship essay and I am LIVING for this recap

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

After reading it I'm surprised you didn't actually stop LIVING!

@KDbooks Год назад

You’d you find it Ange 😊

@DennyPenn1981 Год назад

I loved it. I don’t know how people can hate it.

@AnonymousAnonposter Год назад

Purely for political reasons.

@Almanich94 8 месяцев назад

@@AnonymousAnonposter Or maybe they just don't think it's a very good book at all. But, just like Rand herself, you seem to believe anyone who disagree with you can only ever be doing it in bad faith. Sad way to see the world.

@pdeniro57 2 месяца назад

@@Almanich94 oh please silence the dribble of the opposition. It always works.

@abramponce7608 Год назад

Can you make a English version please

@KDbooks Год назад

Sori ffrind, dim ond cymraeg yma 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@BooksWithBenghisKahn Год назад

Thanks for reading this one and providing this summary so I never have to slog through it! The philosophy and book seem like quite the elaborate way for people to justify being a**holes

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

About sums it up!

@merial7 Год назад

That's the thing is your right to be a asshol! But you suffer the consequences of your freedom and freedom is what we need.

@annesimonen389 Год назад

That's always been my impression!

@mjmclaugh4572 Год назад

If that's your impression, then you really don't get it.

@sybo59 Год назад

Congratulations: You’re conventional (and wrong). Worse, you’re someone who’s comfortable admitting they prefer their chewing done for them by others. A baby bird in a man’s body. Fix all this and read the damned book.

@bstephens44 Год назад

Rand wrote bodice rippers for libertarians.

@KDbooks Год назад

I’m don’t even know how to respond to this 😂😂😂

@RonanHTC Год назад

Having read this in Uni because of the hysteria I heard about it and being thoroughly disappointed, you have completely summed up this novel to a T. Mid book. Brilliant review.

@KDbooks Год назад

Thanks Ronan 😊

@micchaelsanders6286 Год назад

Atlas Shrugged is the greatest symphony of language a human being has ever produced.

@grimaffiliations3671 Год назад

lol

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

were you on molly when you read it

@leeuwbama9433 11 месяцев назад

It's a shame that you didn't even support your appraisel with reason, if the book is so good.

@alanaestelle2076 Год назад

Looooool! I’m reading this in 2023!😂

@KDbooks Год назад

Who hurt you?

@alanaestelle2076 Год назад

@@KDbooks 🤣 I’m a glutton for punishment

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

DON'T! DON'T! DON'T!

@alanaestelle2076 Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd too late! I’ve already bought the book and I’m committed. Reading it with a friend 🤣

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

It's never too late. STOP NOW are you could end up on the Dark Side!@@alanaestelle2076

@davidleemoveforlife6332 Год назад

Find Robert Anton Wilson's article about Ayn Rand. That will give you a good laugh.

@KDbooks Год назад

Ooooh let me try and find it

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Tell me where it is. Tell me NOW!

@Shruggedatlast 7 месяцев назад

😮😊😊

@Lokster71 Год назад

Excellent review. It actually made me reconsider my blanket Rand ban.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Are you serious?

@Lokster71 Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Does it matter? I mean I won't ever actually read it.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

No you were right the first time!

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Of course in the great scheme of thing it doesn't matter except for bookworms like us who should probably be doing something more productive than this while the world seems about to slide into a sinkhole.@@Lokster71

@ScooterAKalldayy Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hdyeah there’s people like me who read this, simply because as a reader, it was one I could not skip. If it was banned I would’ve read it sooner perhaps

@Neerdowellofyesteryear Месяц назад

I literally do not understand. I loved the characters and the story. I feel as though those who have a hard time with this book 1) lack the process of forethought or the ability to critical thinking skills 2) who can not understand a world that is so politically correct that the "boring" characters were created as a result of the over correctness. 3) the personal growth of the characters 4) the lack to understand cause and effect, economics, basic human behavior, etc. 5) do not understand writing or telling a story Overall, i loved this book. I hated her over descriptive writing at first but she literally wrote the movie in book form, down to the way the character walks, moves, everything. I could literally picture it in my mind when reading and listening to it in the car. Im excited to try her others. Which do you recommend?

@mastersal4644 Год назад

Your courage on reading this book is impressive. I think I managed perhaps 20 pages many many years ago and “lost” the book. Very conveniently

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

I've lost many books the same way.

@KDbooks Год назад

And now you’re going to find another copy and read it, yeah?!

@mastersal4644 Год назад

@@KDbooks I think I'm going to pick ones you enjoyed first perhaps?

@kymanches Год назад

Reading Atlas before the fountainhead is a massive mistake. I like Atlas simply because Rand asks all the right questions, yet she doesn't have all the answers

@matchu.j Год назад

Yeah great book...I'm not a nonfiction fan

@matchu.j Год назад

Yeah great book...im not a nonfiction fan but it enlightened me unto things most ppl don't understand...

@GunpowderFictionPlot Год назад

4? That's generous. Even if we ignore Rand political naivety, skill wise this is legit worse than the time I read zombie porn, the zombie porn had more developed characters and finished with 1200 pages to spare. I had to skip the speech Galt delivers. I'd prefer to let Melville talk to me about whales than read that speech, Melville goes on, but at least he didn't repeat himself.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Have no use for zombie porn but love the regular kind.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Don't force yourself to do ANYTHING but especially don't try to read some crappy book you think you should read but actually hate. I felt so much better after I threw out all my Thomas Pynchon novels. It's probably good you read Moby Dick but some critic said Melville throws everything but the kitchen sink in it so I'll probably never try it again. At my age all I want is for people to get to the point!@@nowayout8773

@togoni 4 месяца назад

I didn't read that 3 hour speech. It was impossible. My brain was exploding 😁

@Neerdowellofyesteryear Месяц назад

Are you serious? I loved it. It was a bit long but it was good. My favorite is Francisco's on money

@CrazyMazapan Год назад

Trainwreacked? I mean, English is not my mother tongue so maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it TRAINWRECK?

@KDbooks Год назад

It’s more colloquial, it’s like… saying someone was drunk. He was trainwrecked last night. I suppose you could say ‘he was a trainwreck last night’, but I don’t think that’s what people around my neck of woods would say

@Ohmahlanta Год назад

I hate Ayn Rand with my whole heart. She is my nemesis. You are a brave, brave soul.

@KDbooks Год назад

I need more detail 😂

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

You're absolutely right to hate someone like that. Yes it's better to love than to hate but sometimes hate can feel pretty good too.

@micchaelsanders6286 Год назад

Your loss. Ayn Rand was right.

@ShortsYT837 7 месяцев назад

What is your reason for hating her

@shadhansen739 5 месяцев назад

No you hate prussians or ideology...doubt you took time to read or write

@ayapotato7429 Год назад

I found it a little ironic how Rand's characters resolve their problems with the socialism-capitalism mix by going for subsistence economy with their millionaire village. Always wondered which of the super talented millionaires were working in the ore mines 👀

@sybo59 Год назад

What? Clearly you didn’t read it. This is explicitly addressed and is part of the point.

@ayapotato7429 Год назад

@@sybo59 can you elaborate?

@jackwalter5970 Год назад

A book for teens everywhere 😍.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Exactly!

@KDbooks Год назад

Are teens reading this?

@jackwalter5970 Год назад

@@KDbooks Maybe some

@AbtinX Год назад

@@KDbooks yes, they read this, Nietzsche and the Art of War apparently. The western teenager starter pack ☺️

@ScooterAKalldayy Год назад

@@AbtinXI have never heard this before. Is this seen as a positive overall?

@laurasalo6160 Год назад

I love Ayn Rand. I love her mind, her stregth of character and her books too. I say read it. Read it. It will always come up and it never hurts to hear things from what may seem an eccentric angle. I found Atlas Shrugged incredibly gripping. I read it with a friend and every day at work we'd go on and on about it all day! And hey, if you grew up in Soviet Russia around the time of the revolution, you might not be a fan of socialism either....

@KDbooks Год назад

Atlas Shrugged and work colleagues was a constant I wasn’t expecting but I am here for it

@MrRowntree27 Год назад

One of the great 20th century thinkers, for sure. I'm glad so many people attack and deride her work so vehemently. If it wasn't for them, and my natural contrarianism, I would never have discovered her

@ScooterAKalldayy Год назад

Dude while I was reading this I would spin the tale all over again to my girlfriend every night. It got to the point where she would be begging me for more about the characters. The story is hit or miss for different people but dissecting and sharing this story with someone else is one of the finest treats of literature I’ve ever undergone. As far as the message.. I say detach. Try to see it for what it is (or tries to be). Then place it on the shelf and pay yourself on the back for finishing this tome.

@Mike-again 11 месяцев назад

What A. Rand experienced in Russia was Marxism, not socialism.

@bananaquark1164 Год назад

This is the weirdest review i ever heard 😅 entertaining. I think galts speech over the radio is crazy overkill not only is it long everything ge says the book told you already at this point. The other thing is i think the book is not supposed to teach you objectivism it sets a stage in wich her objectivism fits. If you can let yourself get lost i this fantasy world it is very entertaining. If you try to take it seriously it is a bit crazy.

@janethansen9612 Год назад

I am going to pretend I've read it based on this video (but I'm never going to read it). Thanks Kieran.

@KDbooks Год назад

That’s what Lee would do, so it’s legit 😂

@tara5742 Год назад

“I’m aware murders get less” 😅 Also didn’t expect to her about Chuggington here 😂

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Chuggington?

@tara5742 Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd am I getting the name wrong? Haha I dunno My 4 year old briefly was interested and moved on from that little show

@KDbooks Год назад

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd watch the video

@KDbooks Год назад

@@tara5742 you got it correct - Chuggington was a sporadic watch in this house.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Will watch the whole thing again! I ALWAYS miss something.@@KDbooks

@AynRandFanClub Год назад

Your description of the end of the book with Dagny calling it the John Galt line is actually the end of part 1. I doubt you even read the whole thing, but at least trashing her with your pre-conceived biases is a good way to virtue signal to wokies these days!

@KDbooks Год назад

I totally Virtue signalled the “wokies” by saying to leave your assumptions aside of Rand and to read this book over her others. My favourite part was when I said that Rand gets a bad rap, that’s exactly what the “wokies” want to hear.

@nxn8148 Год назад

I read Anthem and I have decided I am not ever going to touch a single other book by her

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

You are already very wise.

@micchaelsanders6286 Год назад

Your loss. She was a genius. Changed my life.

@caycehelderman9254 Год назад

I read this book, I had no idea who Ayn Rand was. One of the worst books I have read. Just from a literally standpoint, the story is incredibly boring and dry, none of the characters are remotely likable, and it was just so boring yet exhausting to read.

@rmmccarthy1240 10 месяцев назад

A smug and careless review of a masterwork.For it or against it, your viewers deserve a far more thoughtful and cogent critique.

@KDbooks 10 месяцев назад

Naaaaaaah

@Sylusander 4 месяца назад

Naw, this comment was left by a relative 😂😅

@Paromita_M Год назад

Oh dear you actually read it. My sympathies... Fountainhead was enough for me.

@KDbooks Год назад

Fountainhead is BAAAD

@Paromita_M Год назад

@@KDbooks 💯

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Didn't read The Fountainhead either but understand it's about an architect who blows up a building when he doesn't get his way. Essentially it's the philosophy of the Far Right in the US now.

@RandFanOne 9 месяцев назад

She reveals the Leftist ideology and mindset in essence and it's not pretty. Then illustrates what Objectivism would mean in practice, in essence, and why her philosophy is the proper one for man to follow. Do not trust summarizations of her book or philosophy. It is different and original and not to be pidgeonholed into preconceived notions of good, evil, politics, etc. Her philosophy has changed many lives.

@BookishTexan Год назад

“Government unregulated sexy steel rods.” Brilliant. Never read Rand. Read enough about her and “objectivism” and it’s impact on the Republican Party in the last 40 years to be convinced that her books are not for me. I don’t think I could leave my prejudices against her behind.

@KDbooks Год назад

I really don’t think you’ll be getting what you expect. I think she gets a bad rap.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

The fact that so many Republican love it(do they know she was an atheist?) just proves every bad thing people say about them is probably true.

@jean-philipperameau4220 Год назад

The GOP has not followed Rand at all.

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd Год назад

Well at least for a long time their ideology was almost identical to her's even though the fact she was an avowed atheist usually meant they couldn't mention her name.@@jean-philipperameau4220

@BookishTexan Год назад

@@jean-philipperameau4220 Click on my handle and leave a comment on one of my videos if you wish to discuss this further.

@thecinematicmind Год назад

You suffered this supposed “classic”. My goodness I have all sympathy for anyone who attempts/completes this.

@KDbooks Год назад

It wasn’t as bad as I thought. Truly mid

@mimi31268 Год назад

Haven't read it, haven't ever wanted to read it and now I never will 😮

@LiteratureScienceAlliance Год назад

And I skipped those 70 pages of monologue 😂😂😂

@KDbooks Год назад

People DO this 😂 where was my heads up

@robertmiller5835 7 месяцев назад

Interesting… you clearly didn’t understand it.

@KDbooks 7 месяцев назад

Enlighten me then

@wills242 2 месяца назад

The feckless do cope

@pdeniro57 2 месяца назад

It was an ok point and the writer didnt have the best idea of mechanisms. But holy cow does this review miss the hole point. It like you dont like the color of the decent car that will get you to work. But hey i grew with nothing.

@joshnic6639 Год назад

Then you realize the whole premise of the book collapses when logic tells you that one couldn’t exist without the other. Both the atlases, and the looters would cease to exist if the other one shrugged.

@ttthttpd Год назад

In its working draft version it was called "The Strike". The point was to show if workers or innovators leave then society collapses. Especially due to those who are neither, and use societal or governmental manipulation to rule over others. Also recall Rand doesn't see a dichotomy between the two groups, other than experience and ability. In all her novels the heroes also spend some time performing manual labor. They eventually work their way up the ladder as she thought all should strive to do. Once there, be the best at whatever level you plateau at. In other words, All should be workers and try to be innovators. The "Aristocracy of pull" and the squatters living in the factory are utterly different classifications she casts blame upon.

@lobby-zx2ux 9 месяцев назад

How exactly would society collapse from a lack of freeloaders?

@larryriley8802 11 месяцев назад

Objectively it stinks.

@hezekiahwallace2412 Год назад

The job of the government is to protect its citizens and there rights that’s it.

@Neerdowellofyesteryear Месяц назад

Wrong. Just to protect their citizens. Literally in the Constitution it says that to limit the government and lists the rights of the people & States that the government can not interfere with

@shadhansen739 5 месяцев назад

Way to disparage one of the most important authors of the last century. After you read another 100 books maybe you'll have time to slam the "fountainhead". Way to open your mind or perhaps you are a troll

@KDbooks 5 месяцев назад

Lucky for you Fountainhead was my first Rand. It was rubbish

@nikthedestroyalator6796 Год назад

Me: oh atlas shrugged, i hear this book gets a lot of crap i want to know more "Its about objectivism" Me: well shit...

@KDbooks Год назад

😂😂😂

@elledeq Год назад

I read it half and thought how she writes about man/women relationship is horrendous. It has a fascist undertone for me in creating the heroes and dynamics she creates in it.

@MrRowntree27 Год назад

Broadly speaking, Ayn Rand endorses a non-interventionist government which leaves people alone and allows them to flourish and prosper. This is basically the polar opposite of fascism, where government is involved in every aspect of your life, and basically, everything you do is for the glorification of the state. It is collectivist, as opposed to Rand's extreme individualism. Unless of course, you understand fascism to mean "a thing I don't like", as many people do these days. In which case, fair enough.

@farmlyfe857 10 дней назад

Omg I tried to watch this review but seriously gave up. Him laughing at everything he doesn't understand or agree with makes it unwatchable. Also the motor that you are laughing about that gets it power from the air....doesn't exist....she had to make a motor that didn't really exist ...yes. it's not funny so I really don't understand your laughter, she needed to invent a motor that doesn't really exist for the story....get it yet? If the motor existed in real life it's not some revolutionary motor like it needed to be for the story. Example. We found a jet turbine omg no one has even envisioned this before. Just isn't the same as a revolutionary motor that pulls its power from the air

@KDbooks 10 дней назад

One more time?