Atlas Shrugged sales soar

[elkguy]

Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009--Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.
“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day” said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government’s increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we’re facing, and she offered, in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ a principled and practical solution consistent with American values."

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=22647

[reivertom]

One of the few Athiests I could agree with when it comes to government's roll in our lives and how to save the country.

[mrdux]

I've not read it and hear it's about 1100 pages long and hard to follow. I have heard excerpts and heard interviews with her and she was right on and way before her time. There is currently a web site called Atlas shrugs and it gives the socialists a hard way to go.

[Pugs]

I've not read it and hear it's about 1100 pages long and hard to follow. I have heard excerpts and heard interviews with her and she was right on and way before her time. There is currently a web site called Atlas shrugs and it gives the socialists a hard way to go.

It's not a trivial read but I was able to read and write coherently on it as a freshman in college (OK, that was 27 years ago) and it's worth the effort. For that matter picking up a copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm as an allegorical tale is worth it.

[daking]

Read the damn book. It's a difficult task. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. It is a blueprint for where Obambast is taking us. Buy the book and buy more ammo.