BOOK REVIEW: ATLAS SHRUGGED

" I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN,NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE"

This is the line that I have picked up from the book and I feel this is perfect for its tagline.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: the greatest of the greatest book I have studied in this life of mine and till this age OF MINE. The other one nearing it's greatness was AlCHEMIST. Though Alchemist is a more emotional one,how ever in one's fight with the dubious self inside him as well as the hypocrisy accepted by the society,I shall name ATLAS SHRUGGED as an indispensable book and its PHILOSOPHY the greatest of all religions though I would not like to compare this book with something as preposterous as religions.

Well the plot of this book is quite simple,however its philosophy is not iff you are amongst those cowards who does evades his responsibility on every important and crucial moment of life.
The sory goes through the line that slowly and gradually the morally corrupt philosophy and the hypocritic politicians armed with the weapon of SOCIALISM start to take over the industrial houses of America and start giving out useless rules so as to control the them. Then finally all the great men of industrial houses give vent to their anger by going on strike and vanishing off the industrial scene suddenly thus leaving New York to the living dead to handle who only plead for their need but evade every responsibility and the politicians who in the garb of their selfless SOCIALISM practice their malevolent deeds.
The plot is simple. But the way it is carried out is not. No wonder that 1069 pages of the book,though sounds lengthy is still justifiable and worth reading it. All the credit goes to the ingenious of Ayn Rand to describe every detail to its justification that this book seems to be a reality rather than a work of fiction.

I spent alot and sacrificed alot for this book,but yes in the words of Ayn Rand they were not sacrifices rather investments I made through my conscious choice.

Why this book and what is so great about it:

Do you ever feel dismayed about the state of things in our society and wish for an answer,a ray hope,a small spark to ignite your vigor then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you ever feel that the evil always win and start to doubt your own virtues but feel that you need to figh to prove it right then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you ever feel that you have to pay a big price for your virtues every time and now it seems to be a burden but don't know how to go on,well then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to understand the game plan of the morally corrupt people and what are their methods of winning and thus cheating the world,then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Are you at a constant fight between what is evil and what is good then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Are you always thinking that the way you feel that work is to be done is right but you are forced to do the work in a very mediocre because the society demands it,and you are left with the only question " WHY" then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to understand what really is virtue and how you should practice it amidst the evil with the full acknowledgment of its existence then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you feel that you are being victimized whereever you go,and its because you are good and people tend to take advantage of it then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you always think that not think is the way to survival but can't help but think then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to live? Do you feel that the people,especially the elders are continuing to live as if they had died along ago ago and eat,sleep,shit and talk because for the sake of living then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you think? Do you want to think? Do you take the responsibility to think? then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want an answer to your life's goal? Do you think that your life is going as if you have no control over it but you want to? Have you resigned to the fact that mediocrity and corruption is the way of life but still want to fight and prove it wrong,well then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you really want to understand what SELFISHNESS is and WHAT SELFNESS is and why the latter is a superior evil,well then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to understand that why earning money and the very concept of it is the greatest of it all and how it has been maligned by the mediocrity of human mind,I would say
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you feel why people are unhappy in love, sex, relationship etc. and promiscuity has become an order of the day,but want an answer,well then read
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to live?ON your terms? then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to understand why unhappiness and pain is the accepted virtue and that is what is the cause of all malevolence then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you look in the mirror and doubt your own reflection,but no,you wanted to feel proud,then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Do you want to fight as well win the fight of the good then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

The whole book about the essence of man and his responsibility and need to think and the desire to live.Do you want to live the way you shuld,the way the greatness inside you permits but you are stagnated by the question as to how,how the peer influence you,how the manipulate you....every answer is in this book,, thus I would say
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Every question that has tormented you,every answer that you wanted to question,if these are your needs then the solutions are here.Every dogma you wanted to fight,every success you admired and wanted to achieve,every hurdle you wanted to cross but the question of morality and the sense of duty(the values which itself are questionable as to what is moral and what should be the sense of duty), everything that you admired but because of the society you had to give up,every character that you admired but was forbidden to discuss about that by the society, everything that mattered to you and wanted to express them but was silenced by the social customs,if these are the things to fight then I would say start by this:
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Freedom that you admired but was caged by the society,feelings that you wanted to express but was told to shut up by the society,when you did good to people but was wrath and disgust in return, when you wanted to admire greatness and achieve it too but was told to glorify mediocrity...if these are the things that you wish to fight....then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

The woman that you loved turned out to be your destroyer,the friend that you trusted turned out to be your betrayer, the pal you shared your secrets with only to be publicly made mockery of,if that has made to no more long humanity and has made ypu a living dead and one of those devilish morons then fight it....begin with this
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

If you wanted to achieve greatness but the evil of the society has always stopped you,if you wanted to create something great but pondered whether it would be good for the morally corrupt bastards,if these things have tormented you and has made ou embrace mediocrity for the sake of it...then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

If you happen to be those morally corrupt ones,if you happen to be one of those devils,if you want to come to the right track and there si even 1% of a chance then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

IF business has been your morality,if trade is your guiding principle,if you trade values for values,if philanthropy for the needy who never want to be self sufficent is something you hate,if SOCIALISM which makes all equal and thus curbs the greatness of man is something you hate,if you want the answer to these then
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

There are many excerpts from the book that are worth remembering but the message and the philosophy once remembered is even far more greater good than anything else.I shall write the exclusive excerpts from the book on sacrifice,happiness,love,sex,money,evil.divine.religion etc in the blog under the title of "excerpts from Atlas Shrugged".

In short I can only say
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IF I achieve success I shall definitely open a library with thousands of books only of the copies of all the books written by Ayn Rand so that everyone who cares for greatness shall not go empty handed.
I declare myself myself official(official in the jurisdiction of myself) brand ambassador of Ayn Rand.What do I gain? A satisfaction to see in the in the eyes of others who want to be great and would want to celebrate greatness........
Concluding I would say
Read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

here i begin

Finally I decide to pen my views(sorry type here) to the entire world. I have always been jostling for a platform where I could give vent to the ideas that keep taking birth in my not so intelligent yet good enough brain and so I have finally decided that the platform would be a Blog initially and lets see what the future holds out.

But who am I?? Like other young adolescents stepping into the man's shoes(or already have I become one) I am a student too and presently completing my engineering in Information Technology from Delhi College Of Engineering(www.dce.ac.in) and my due date in this institution is 2009 after which I shall be handed over to the outside world to make my life.

'LIFE' the word "LIFE" I just used before in the previous sentence has always been an inspiring icon and confusing enough too. The word 'LIFE' has always let me into confusion so many times and has let me think beyond the realms of existence.
The subject 'LIFE' has fascinated me so much that here it is I have decided that I shall start a blog on it. As I mentioned before, after 2009 I would be handed over to the outside world to make my own life. why does it have to be this handed over ting?? Practically if you would see that is what precisely what happens in real life. We just don't know where we are,at what crossroads we are at and just keep doing things as it is customarily done and keep moving on in our life. What constitutes a life lived of,why do we have to be successful in a way to make a life,why are we societal in our behaviour,why does it always seem that everything is not right and an even bigger problem that occurs is that we can do nothing about it, Why is there a constant fear that binds us and we find inescapable? Why are we so afraid of taking chances? Many questions many questions....and many books have been written on the same subject over and over again. Many writers have made alot of money in only telling others how to life even if their own life has been a rotten shit. So what is true and what is false. What differentiates the reality from the illusion.? wait a minute there is even more? The most superior of all the questions that I always keep thinking of is that why doesn't everyone actually think on these lines.? Why are we so complacent minded after all...............
Getting back to the core issue LIFE...... like most thinkers(which I like to believe myself to be one amongst them) I too deviate from the core issue every time and get lost in the realms of a different world of thoughts where I try finding answers to the questions I keep asking in this world.
Anyways I shall keep blogging as of now and as much as I possibly can and yes this blog is primarily meant for wide readership. I wish to install the passion of quest in everybody so that we all are able to escape the illusion of something that sometimes seems to be a practical reality and take you into the world where the world is indeed how you dreamt it to be.................. Trust me my efforts for finding the right answers and more than that ,asking the right questions,.... in the last few years has definitely given me a whole new perspective which I definitely feel its worth sharing it with everyone. Let us not keep living in the illusion and one day when we realize that we are graying ,either we will start to keep hitting out at the reality or die thinking and longing for the reality? Talk to the gray men most of them will affirm my view but yes not legitimately through their tongue.
Well this first post of mine seems confusing. well so am I(confused) :)...... and yes the purpose was the same.... TO CONFUSE YOU AND MAKE YOU THINK......... and through this blog of mine... I shall answer these very questions and yes as the blog says LIFE: through my eyes....... so definitely my purpose is nothing but to make you find YOUR LIFE:through your eyes.........
will be back soon
sayonara