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Title: I gave it a fair chance
Review: I've looked at objectivism with utmost respect and tolerance. The more I learn about it, however, the less and less I can agree with it.I've read The Fountainhead, and enjoyed it. There were parts that I had trouble swallowing, but I felt the character of Howard Roark was a great emblem.Compared to The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged is just oodles of excuses that money-crazed capitalists use. The characters aren't nearly as thought out, and all of them are radical. And truthfully, none of the characters seem like very happy individuals, even though they're Rand's "ideal" humans.Yes, I understand the main theme of this novel very well, that technology would stop if we didn't have materialistic, selfish people running the world.My point is that faster trains or taller buildings or stronger metals aren't nearly as important as Ayn Rand seems to believe.
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