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Title: thought provoking novel that hits a lot of buttons.
Review: I have read this book no less than five times. While Rand and I differ on our ideas of a higher power, I admire her courage to put into words what most productive, self-driven people think every day as they drive to work. What would happen if all the productive, thinking people of the world were to simply...disappear, leaving the world to be governed by mediocre bureaucrats? This book does a great job of illustrating just that. The first time I read this book,it almost killed me, due to the length, and I didn't get a lot out of it. Later, an older and wiser me was able to glean much from the subtle ideas portrayed here. I won't say this book changed my life, because I was a card carrying Libertarian long before I grasped its meaning, but it helped mold and reinforce ideas I already held. Read it with an open mind, and take what you can from this thought-provoking prose.
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