Selected readers’ comments accompany in-depth critical responses and analyses from Friedersdorf and a small group of colleagues. Since the book club is being conducted entirely online, the format is unconventional. Fortunately, the sharp responses that it does provoke provide a great reason to have a book club: you go into it knowing that at least the book will generate passionate discussion. In fact, he finds it surprising that few readers of the book come away from it, as he does, with a middle-of-the-spectrum response. The Atlantic thinks that’s such a common case that they’re launching a “book club of sorts” for the book: The Atlas Shrugged Book Club.Ĭonor Friedersdorf, who is spearheading the initiative, hopes “that everyone will come away better understanding of both why so many people love and hate Atlas Shrugged.” Friedersdorf isn’t, as far as I can tell, a die-hard Objectivist who thinks it’s such a good book. I was in high school when I read Atlas Shrugged, and I haven’t touched it since. Here’s another division of the citizens of the world into two kinds of people: those who love, and those who hate, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Non-Contradiction: The Atlas Shrugged Book Club Non-Contradiction: The Atlas Shrugged Book Club » MobyLives
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