[West Coast Conservative]

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far.

[ShadowDancer]

If you think it's pretty good so far, just wait. It gets better and better with each page.

[gorush]

"I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far."

I envy you...it's the only book I have read multiple times.

[sam_paine]

Its an important work, but it's a pain in the arse. There's no excuse for the repetition and flowery cliche in some places. She was brilliant, and yet a fool for not accepting the help of an "objective" editor.

[Lester Moore]

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Pretty good so far.

It is a good book but is not the best writing. It's ideas are more important than her writing style. Reading the book I found it to be obviously be written by a woman. Even the heroin, Dagney, whines about how she can't find a man of the mind anywhere when she needs a man, of the mind of course.

[wolfpat]

You'll see different things in it the second time you read it. The last time I read it, it scared me. I would read the things said by James Taggart and his friends, and then read the same things in the current issue of the newspaper.
I've read it 4 times so far.

[dynachrome]

The story of Starnesville(sp?) scares the hell out of me

[Young Werther]

"Who's John Galt" stickers were plastered all over campus, (Rutgers 1961). I was hooked. I bought the book and being a Sci Fi guy his motor seemed surreal. Having grown up in a Democratic family I didn't understand her philosophy at first. But like Churchill says when you're young you act from the heart and are "liberal". As you grow and mature you act from your intellect and become conservative.

All the Alan Colmes of the world are in a state of arrested development!

[investigateworld]

I was thinking of her this morning while reading the Bankruptcy Bill. Some people make money from "Washington Ability". So I looked it up and there it was on page 58, paperback edition.

[Chef Dajuan]

Try "The Fountainhead", too.

[Tench_Coxe]

The prose isn't very good. But, one can see elements of the book coming to life today ( in maybe a slightly different guise - property rights, corporate subsidies, etc. ).

[WhiteGuy]

Pretty good so far.

Not only does it get better with each page................

It improves with each reading.

I try to schedule enough time each year to re-read this classic.

[L,TOWM]

Be careful about taking it seriously as a political or economic blueprint, though.

If you really sit a libertarian down and try to paint them a picture of what the world would be like if the got everything they wanted, they deny it would be anarchy, or they resort to ad hominems.

The commies could never get their system to work because they never believed the end result of laziness from the removal of incentives.

Pure libertarianism will never work, either, because it ignores the disturbing human tendency to behave poorly without an external braking system. And the libertarians refuse to believe that many among us would turn into savages without rules and a coercive body to enforce them.