Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
"I read Atlas Shrugged because my best friend made me promise to read it and gave me a copy. It was when I was leaving for one of those kind of year abroad things, and he says, "You have to read this book; it's life changing." I said, "Wow. All right."
So at some time I started really associating with the characters. There was a couple of characters that you love or hate or you feel similar to, and I think once you started to get to know them - and she took a long time to kind of develop them - but that's when you could really - that's when you really wanted to find out. That's when I would stay up most of the night 'cause I couldn't put it down. I don't know if I dare say this, but the strong woman in it as well is pretty - you're always cheering for her. I don't want to say I related to her, but I guess I did.
______ book is really about is how markets and people that are outside of free markets things interact with each other, and what works and what doesn't work; and I also liked that - who is portrayed as causing all the problems are for me personally are the people that I don't think we need - and that would be kind of - just to put a short word would be politics.
I think I'd recommend it to anybody, because if you have the time to read it, you're gonna remember it; and later on, you're gonna hear and learn things that speak to you. I would have to give this book 4½ out of 5."
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