I advise this book for a long time. Not as often as Ferris and Kiyosaki, but still enough to find it and read it when it is given free time. I found the book - it's not that hard if you have some ability to dig in google and FB2- reader, and read it in two-thirds of a couple of weeks of fits and starts while traveling on public transport.
Detracting from the feel of the book, I was amazed that she. written in 1957. , Which explains the deviation in steampunk and rigid rejection of socialist values ( Cold War, the red mood in some capitalist countries).
This book is must read for every entrepreneur. Its literary quality is not too high, the characters too, just like in the comics, convex, and celluloid. The very plot develops as the series. But after a while you already begin to understand what will happen next. The value of the book is not the. The value of it is that clear and sharp phrases from the mouths of his characters Rand articulates those postulates, that you believed, and so his, but was afraid to acknowledge their. For example, about the fact that ' no one no one should free ' or ' money - it's not dirty, and the measure of your responsibility and working conditions '.
Of course, a lot of hypertrophic things that you can disagree, but you can, by contrast, revel. Many arguments about the moral side of both business and the relationship to him by the inhabitants. Many of the relation to the business of the authorities, who in the book, though represented by different people, but is referred to as a body ' everything can be negotiated '. Many parallels with the current reality, though 50 years have passed, but the world is cyclical, and all returns.
It is rather a philosophical treatise than fiction. The Attitude to life through the prism of business. The man presented with a business here, as the crown of creation, and man of action, as the measure of everything else around him. And the main conflict is not between an amorphous society and business, but between those who are willing to carry the flag of his work through any hardship, and those who would prefer to create a new society, a utopian society of men of action. I have read the book, but it is clear that win utopia as a kind of dream is the author of an ideal society.
The book is certainly interesting, but it should not idealize. I admit that some of the long monologues, I leafed through, nothing to lose in the general feelings of the reader. I did not notice the flight of feminism, which I hinted to my commenters. More likely, though many pages devoted to relations between men and women, the heroes of sexless, and sex between them - rather, a manifestation of their position in society than a personal relationship to each other. Weak-willed Eddie Willers is suffering from unrequited love, active Rearden just takes what he wants and rigidly defends his desire downshifter Dankon resigns himself to his position rejected, Jim Taggart is more interested in that will think about it, and engaged in sex as an automaton with no desire to.
The key character of the novel - a woman vice-president of the railroad Degni Taggart, now a businessman who goes to the end even the most intolerable conditions. The author seemed to lead her through all the circles of hell, arguing that the useless eaters of life not only unworthy of her efforts, but any results achieved will be necessarily destroyed or selected. But the heroine, like the deaf, rushes on, battling more with itself than with society as sees his life as the overcoming of difficulties, not the profit of joy, like trying to convince her former colleague who left the company and founded his business eldorado.
Peer to her, the second main character - Henry Rearden steel giant, which is surrounded by a family of losers living in his house at his expense, but not his mouth to reproach, that he is a soulless bastard that much since he was born in this active, it is his sacred duty - . Gradually Degni and Henry find each other and their union - the heart of Danko, which should light the way, but few noticed his light.
Regularly in the novel there is a childhood friend Degni and her first lover, the heir to the copper mines Francisco Dankon. It is far superior and intelligence, and ability to anyone who is with him. No one can be with him. But he chooses the path of renunciation of society, joined the ranks of one of the first downshifter. However, he continues to be among those who hated all my heart - beggars who want to live his intelligence and accomplishments. He does everything to accelerate the destruction of society in order to reduce it to the swinish state, and then come as a conqueror and liberator. He - the main opponent in the Degni her way through the thorns. And he's never come to her in a straight fight, stepping back and saying, wait, she will soon be convinced.
And, of course, John ' who is ' Galt. It's not even a hero, but rather an angel who takes the business of heaven, who not only deserve it, but also ripe to change the ' ministry ' useless to society in the usual exchange of values such as work and knowledge with their peers on the morality. The residents are constantly told in the book ' Who is John Galt? ' When they want to express their fear of the unknown.
I am sure that many will not be able to wade through all the pages of this rather large book. But personally, I plan to swim the second to gather quotes. Not for ourselves, for others. In the text of the book I always stumble on the fact that he could not have said it better and more accurate. This is what determines the value of any book, when she takes out of you your thoughts and converts the words you never say to yourself. Rand is able to. Moreover, it is impressive that the book has more than 50 years. I recommend. persistently. If you - the working man.
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