Great book and if you are intelligent enough to understand the philosophy behind it(a lot of libs are not I have noticed) it will mean something. I have not read the book since I was 18 but it definitely had an impact along with 1984. The Fountainhead is another book of hers you should read after Shrugged. Rand lived under marxism and the evils that collective thinking/actions will inevitably bring upon the people of a nation.Rand went from living a comfortable live until the communists took over, then they were poor and starving, like everyone else, all in the name of fairness though right? lol. Shrugged is sadly, almost prophetic in the sense that all these years later, we are well on the way the dystopian world created in the novel.
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