What was your feeling when you put down the Atlas Shrugged after finishing it?

@Wismay (2037)
India
August 20, 2009 1:24pm CST
Atlas Shrugged is a novel with an innovative and a totally different phylosophyical view towards life and the behavior of human beings. So did the book has any effect on you? After reading through the novel how did you feel about the thoughts and ideas it proposes? Did you agree or disagree? Do you think objectivism is really perfect? How did the reading of that book affected you?
1 response
JAG2009
@JAG2009 (266)
• India
24 Aug 09
It was defintitely "out of this world." I had to go back and re-read it again; in fact I have read it many times now. And each time, I find something new. I wondered for a while if someone could really live like Roark - do all what he did and say all what he said and live the way he did! It made me question everything around me for days after that. I wonder how different life might be - if there were more Howard Roarkes around. Much, much better, i think.
Wismay
@Wismay (2037)
• India
24 Aug 09
Really, Ayn Rand questions everyone's deep characteristics. It brings out what truly one is and what one is projecting to the world. It is difficult to find Roark like people simply 'cause it is not easy to live like him. It takes a lot of courage, conviction and belief in his or her own principles. One should definitely read the Ayn Rand books to get a different view of the life. I was really excited when I was reading her stuff. Truly original stuff! Might not be 100% true but surely 90% true. If people become like Roark or John Galt then the world will be totally different! Thanks for the response! Happy Mylotting!