SparkNotes.com
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Free study guide for Atlas Shrugged and other great books.

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Another free study guide for Atlas Shrugged.

Wikipedia.com
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Analysis of the novel, Atlas Shrugged.

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I'll post there and try to pull in some new members. If you can think of a way to get more people involved in this discussion please share it or go ahead and attempt it.

An interesting biography was written about Rand by Barbara Branden. It is called The Passion of Ayn Rand. Barbara was the wife of Nathaniel Brandon and a member of Rand's elite inner circle along with her husband and Alan Greenspan.

Thanks, lindad_amato.

I've read much of her non-fiction but never any of her fiction. I just downloaded Atlas Shrugged and am excited to finally tackle this classic.

More of interest

Amazon.com: My Years with Ayn Rand (9780787945138): Nathaniel ...
http://www.amazon.com/Years-Ayn...Natha ... 0787945137

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KZUKJjgCqg

The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand
mol.redbarn.org/.../NathanielBranden/BenefitsAndHazards.html

http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/bio/brandens.html

Robert Tulip shared this free link, 6 meg .pdf, I'm gonna try to link it to my reader...

http://www.mises.ch/library/Rand_AtlasShrugged.pdf

Not sure what to do. Amazon UK are offering something called a 'quicklet' bundle. Atlas Shrugged,The Fountainhead, The Virtue of Selfishness and more. Probably abridged versions? Not a bad price, though

The Virtue of Selfishness is a concise summary of her philosophy (about 150 pages?).

The Passion of Ayn Rand is a good movie if you want to learn more about her weird private life. Helen Mirren plays Ayn, Eric Stoltz is Nathaniel Brandon, her one time heir apparent and lover who fell from grace, and Peter Fonda is Ayn's hapless husband.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/

Not sure I understand. Not got much access to stuff here. Is this fiction or what?

It's a collection of her writings, biography and writings by others about her and her work. The biography, The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden is a great companion pice to reading Rand's fiction.

heledd,

"Atlas Shrugged" is definitely fiction but it has serious philosophical undertones. Ayn Rand, the author, was a philosopher and the originator of a philosophy called "Objectivism." I've read almost all of her non-fiction but none of her fiction as of yet.

Look forward to joining this discussion once I get the book downloaded on my Kindle. I read Atlas Shrugged some years ago so interested in a refresher and discussion but also in learning more about Ayn Rand and her philosophy.

I just finished reading Rand's We the Living and I must say that I found it to be her best fiction. She wrote it after escaping Russia to the US and her youthful experience shows in the passion that she brought to her characters. I found it much more enjoyable that either The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. She presents an excellent impression of what it was like to live in Russia during and after the Revolution and her characters are very human instead of the robots in her other books. Her prose is beautiful and flows nicely. I recommend it highly as an enjoyable read.

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OK - been there, done that - put a link to this forum up at FaceBook.

Here is a site for the book:

http://atlasshrugged.com/

And here is the Ayn Rand Institute's page on their website about it:
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer? ... s_shrugged