[Billthedrill]

The Promethean Hank Rearden is a throwback, a metal engineer who helps develop “a motor that would draw static electricity from the atmosphere...

Ugh. Clearly the reviewer has not read the book. Reardon did nothing of the sort, John Galt did. Who would, in the end, take Dagny from Reardon and make him like it.

I gently suggest that of the books mentioned Atlas Shrugged has by far the least literary merit and by far the most real impact. The rest are done; Rand's book gets a fresh start every time some idiot bureaucrat appears on television. Of them, only hers has the grotesque merit of coming true.

[Billthedrill]

Geesh - misspelled Rearden twice. I blame my proofreader.

[Borges]

Zhivago was more of a popular phenomena than a literary one. Lolita is still read and still very relevant.

[acapesket]

Read Atlas Shrugged three times between jr.high, College and Motherhood.
Learned something new every time.

Thanks for reminding me, I will gift it to my 24 yr old.

[Radix]

I purchased the hard copy of your book on Amazon as a gift. Later, I unexpectedly received another copy on line. A twofer. My son got his copy, and I got the cyber bonus.

Thanks.

[AndyJackson]

Rand's book gets a fresh start every time some idiot bureaucrat appears on television.

But mostly among pimply faced engineering school freshmen who think that as the world's smartest people [person] they are the 2nd coming of John Galt.

[Larry Lucido]

“a motor that would draw static electricity from the atmosphere...”

My cat had been doing that for years.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I agree and will add this.

Rand had that Russian talent for using 60 words where 5 would do.