Atlas-Shrugged-by-Ayn-Rand-audio-book

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Book Copyright 1957. Audio Book read in English by Scott Brick. MP3 Audio format. This is an unabridged version, with 1208 segments, each approx. 3 to 4 minutes long. According to Amazon, Atlas Shrugged is; "Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise which launched an ideology and a movement is tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense. The publication of this work in 1957 gained Rand an instant following and became a phenomenon. One man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? And why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies but against the woman he loves?" http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-New-Ayn-Rand/dp/1433256185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276782644&sr=1-1 Ayn Rand must have been prescient, because many of things she wrote about in the 1950's have already come to pass. If you want to find out where we are headed, read or listen to Atlas Shrugged.

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xenu678 (2010-06-21)

Already here:
And over 70 seeders as of now.

MAGIC_HATE_BALL (2010-09-15)

So the main point of Rand's books is "Fuck You, I got mine!" And anybody that gives to the poor is an idiot.
How positively republican.

Dadoggy03 (2011-02-04)

@MAGIC_HATE_BALL
Her point isn't about being Philanthropic, or Charitable. Its her economic point of view that man betters other by trying to better himself. If a man wants to better his financial situation he might start a business, which provides a product that might better his customers. If he wants to expand his business to make more money, then he hires more workers which benefits them as well as the owner himself. Has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. But I will tell you this, the Democrats are only charitable with other peoples money, not their own. The religious "right" which are most likely Republican are the most charitable segment of the American population and honestly the world population. But her book is mainly about economic principles. But do since you seem to dislike republicans just go read the stats on charitable giving among democrats and republicans and then pull your foot out of your mouth.

theroyalist (2011-03-14)

Magichateball, Not, "So the main point of Rand's books is 'Fuck You, I got mine!'" Try 'Get your own, I EARNED mine."
'And anybody that gives to the poor is an idiot. How positively republican.'
You mean people who study & work less than you? You mean Democrat voters, kept down by the "self-made men" like Kerry & Gore? Hah!

Scarao (2011-07-17)

@MAGIC_HATE_BALL
Have you read the book(or listened to it?)
Please give me a rational argument agents ONE sentence that John Galt said. He said a lot, and gave a logical explanation for everything he said.
Or are you a rotter? Do you value your life? Do you think that me having mine makes it so you can't have more? Do you think that any job you've had in your life, you could have done with out the mind? Could you know how to flip that burger, with out the mind who realized that meat could be cooked? Without the man who fought and thought his way into have a multimillion dollar business? Could you build the car your drive? Could you build the computer you download from? Could you process that hamburger?
Do you understand what greed means? Did you listen to a word he said? Could you employ thousands a people? Do these people that work at Apple have Job, without Steve Jobs being concerned with himself. If he where to give all the money he makes to all the looters that tell him that he owes it to them, that he has a moral empathetic to hand it out? Would his factories be able to afford the parts needed? What possible does he do when he's told that having a computer is a moral right, and even though he couldn't possible afford to make the computers? Let alone pay his staff? What then when does he do when they tell him he has employ the staff he can't pay, because all he money goes to the looters?
These workers except their right to take what they need, that it's "Form each according to his ablity, to each according to his need." They wont get payed for long, the've excepted their death. Do they live for death?
Is this what you believe in?

rtghrtyzx (2011-07-29)

I read tax, unions, consumer safty and environment friendly not primarely "looters" or Lenin. And what wouldnt all those mexican cartells been without DEA and the war against drugs? Re: Jobs. Does America manufactur anything nowdays?

Polymathj (2011-09-13)

Everyone missed the point here. The upload is terrible. After extracting the files, they're split into about 1000 2min .mp3's.

Shakey93 (2012-02-27)

AlexLibman (2012-10-14)

MAGIC_HATE_BALL sounds like he couldn't understand Green Eggs And Ham, much less Atlas Shrugged...

Chaos_Seer (2014-06-20)

I'm currently downloading this (not this exact torrent, but Atlas Shrugged). I'm looking forward to listening to it. I enjoyed The Fountainhead and I find Ayn Rand to be a fairly rational philosopher.
Though I don't agree with all her opinions, I believe elements in objectivism are well reasoned and self-empowering. Though I think living in a human system is more complicated than "There are the great producers, and not", "The poor/disabled are so because of their nature," "Private individuals in a free market will always make rational decisions," "Public science is a sham", etc... there are a lot of great points along the lines of "Communism gives the tribe the right to take your life and livelihood", or "Form your own opinions, don't just take opinions from other people" or "It is better to do something because you've reasoned you should then that you're pressured to do so from some outside source." or "a great man is someone who seeks to do something excellently," or "Value yourself and your work highly," or "It is vain to pursue power before productive worth," or "Judge and regard your own actions before you judge or regard the actions or aims of others."
Like her or hate her, you cannot form a good opinion on her and her philosophy until you've taken the time to study it well, as with any other philosophy. If you naturally despise her philosophy simply because it contradicts your own, you're doing it wrong. You're letting your biases control you. If you cannot articulate her arguments the way SHE articulates them, you do not know her and you do not criticize her. You paraphrase her views by your own bias, and instead express only your limited view and leave it undeveloped and unchallenged. You cannot criticize Plato if you do not know Plato. You cannot criticize the Sun Tzu if you do not know the Sun Tzu. You cannot criticize the bible unless you know the bible. You cannot criticize Ayn Rand unless you know Ayn Rand.