i just watched part one of this movie on net flix the time line is 2016 and to be honest it is not far from reality; big brother at it's best and the governments promotion of class war. wiki tells a good story of the long struggle the adaptation from book to film entailed and how the liberal media and conservitive brain trust differ in their opinion of it's message. I am in my mid 50's and can not remember a time when the USA was as divided as it is today.

I have always wanted to read that book.

Thanks for the heads up on there being a movie

i'll admit that it helped me follow thwe story line a great deal by reading wiki b4 i watched the movie and it gave me a nice history behind the transition from print to film

I read Ayn Rand's books, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, shortly after they first came out, and loved them. Her politics are not mine, however. They are both several hundred pages long, and I question whether a movie could represent them fairly.

(Just as I was appalled by the film of The Lord of the Rings... Legolas, hopelessly miscast in my view, looked like a Piccadilly hustler. But then, and this is the nub of the matter, I have my own image of what the characters in that or any other book are like, if I have been in any way impressed by the book).

I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead many years ago. I thought and still think the latter is a much better book. I've read it a couple of times.

Bought Atlas Shrugged a year or two back to re-read, but found the paperback's print too small, so haven't done so. From memory, the major and minor characters in Atlas Shrugged tend to be caricatures.

I share Ayn Rand's libertarianism in general terms, but am not doctrinaire. In times of emergency I think there's a case for government intervention, regulation and restriction.

I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead many years ago. I thought and still think the latter is a much better book. I've read it a couple of times.

Bought Atlas Shrugged a year or two back to re-read, but found the paperback's print too small, so haven't done so. From memory, the major and minor characters in Atlas Shrugged tend to be caricatures.

I share Ayn Rand's libertarianism in general terms, but am not doctrinaire. In times of emergency I think there's a case for government intervention, regulation and restriction.

Certainly the characters are what E.M. Forster would have called 'flat' characters; one-track minds!

The trouble with libertarianism is that, when there is an emergency, there is no person or organization capable of dealing with it. Over-regulation tends towards producing people like Francisco d'Anconia and Dagny Taggart; under-regulation produces chaos.

The weakness of Atlas Shrugged is that, in a time like the present when both the British and American systems seem to elect nonentities as their leaders (since Thatcher; you might call her a lot of things, but hardly that), the threat to the systems comes from outside (Islam), not from d'Anconias and Taggarts.

the threat to the systems comes from outside (Islam)

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Bought Atlas Shrugged a year or two back to re-read, but found the paperback's print too small, so haven't done so. From memory, the major and minor characters in Atlas Shrugged tend to be caricatures.

You should get the E-book then you can increase the font size to what yo are comfortable with.

I just got the movie and plan to watch this week.

You should get the E-book then you can increase the font size to what yo are comfortable with.

You're right, but it'll have to go in the queue now.