• • • Why “Atlas Shrugged” is one of the worst books ever written 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | If you came across Atlas Shrugged knowing nothing about the book or its author or its audience, you could be forgiven for thinking that much of it is a parody. But Rand was, by all accounts, in earnest, which makes it hard to read the Galt address and not become exasperated. “Existence exists.” It took you two years, Ayn, to come up with that? Would you also like to tell me, perhaps, that water is wet or the sun is hot?      View blog reactions

• • The 9 worst books ever written 
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Atlas Shrugged  | Rand: Atlas Shrugged. A monument to monomania. Bludgeoningly repetitious. Deeply paranoid. Indifferent to the craft of fiction. And 1,000 pages long.      View blog reactions