This is Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus. Atlas Shrugged (Swedish title: Och Världen Skälvde). This is a 1217 pages long masterpiece (at least the swedish version is 1217 pages long). Everybody should read this book. They should hand it out in schools to our kids making them read it. As I raised Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead to the skies – I’ll raise this one to the fucking universe!

The world is collapsing due to people with power trying that awful thing called collectivism. In the middle of everything our main protagonist Dagny Taggart fights to save her railway company. But her fight is for more than her railway. She refuses to accept stagnation and hopelesness as the faith of her own and humanity; so she decides to confront the mysterious expression that has come to conclude everybody’s fear;

Who is John Galt?

The answer turns out to be essential for her own future as well as the future of the world.

The book is a philosophical thriller; it challenges, fascinates and most of all it inspires you. Regardless of your political view you should grab a copy of Atlas Shrugged and read it through. Everything is explained here and illustrated by the characters in the book. Objectivism, how collectivism does not work, how and why the pursuit for one owns happyness is the only morally right thing to live for, how self-sacrifice never will lead to anything productive (in fact: how it will lead to stagnation and poverty), why being rich is a virtue and not a sin, and much else.

Atlas Shrugged is definitely one of the best books I’ve ever read (if not the best one). It is at least the most important book I’ve read in my whole life. You shouldn’t live your life without reading this. If there’s something important you have to do before you fall down dead is to digest the words of Ayn Rand.

I salute her and I thank her for giving the world her ideas and distributing them through this masterpiece. Read the story about a man that said he would shut down the engine of the world – and did it.

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