Theaetetus, забавно, но я бы не стал вот так вот однобоко оценивать книгу
А точек зрения касательно нее можно найти множество, от очень негативных до восторженных.
This book really makes you take a good hard look at yourself and your behavior, which is why I think a lot of people don't like this book. It's a lecture and most people don't like to get lectured. I loved it. It gave me a good swift kick in the ass. While I've never been a "looter," I have made several irrational decisions in my life, which this 1000+ page lecture has helped me to stop doing. It teaches you to think with your mind, rather than your heart. It doesn't make you an uncaring person. You still feel with your heart, but you think with your mind. Use your mind instead of expecting to get the rewards of others who do all the thinking. If everyone did this, the world would be perfect - that is the idea behind Ayn's story. Of course, this will never happen. Ayn knew that. She just wrote a story about her ideal world. A lot of authors do that. No need to get pissed off at her because of it.
The Concept: Rand follows the lives of society's movers and shakers (first-handers, in her words, and business men, scientists, inventors, and artists in her novel) as they resist the societal pull to become second-handers and to remain true to themselves and their live's work. Meanwhile, something is happening that is shaking the very foundation of society.
After reading The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand in 2005-2006, my life has been changed for the better. Applying Rand's ideas to my own life has made my mind clearer and has helped me to acchieve goals I thought were unreachable. Rand's ideas have been a big part of "growing up" and getting through the "quarter life crisis" for me.
While I read Rand's books for her ideas and to better understand the application of her philosophy, they can also be read on many different levels. Through reading them, not only did I read an amazing story, carefully crafted and well rendered, but I also learned so much. However, one does not have to delve deep into Rand's philosophical background to enjoy The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged -- they are also great stories about human endurance, individualism, freedom, relationships, and integrity.
If you are reading this book to gain an understanding of Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, then I would recommend reading this book AFTER reading Ayn Rand's other famous fiction, The Fountainhead. The Fountainhead is a more straight forward place to start that study.
Быть может, некоторые люди просто боятся увидеть в книге себя, причем в неприглядном свете :-)
Другие просто не осилили стиль.
Третьим это просто не нужно, у них и так все «ок» и излишнее самокопание лишь навредит.
Четвертые, как сказано в первом ревью, не хотят «нравоучений».
И тд и тп. Причин, почему кому-то книга не нравится, а кому-то нравится, множество.
У меня самого Айн Рэнд «пошла» не с первого «захода».
Книга не может быть одной и той же, для каждого она своя. Слова, фразы и предложения срабатывают как триггеры, запускающие ассоциативный процесс, а ведь ассоциативные ряды у всех разные.