Atlas Shrugged

I really, really wanted to read this book. Sadly, one must use Google Books with copyright protection. If you don't carry a tablet around with you or if you live in a rural area with little to no Internet, you have no access to the book and can't read it. I am returning this book because the digital edition and Google Books have so many limitations and problems with using that I'll never be able to read it. Giving up on Ayn Rand for no other reason than I can't find a physical paper edition of her work to read - not in any used bookstore anywhere and because of the eBook limitations this means there's no way from me to find, access, and read her work. Another great writer who will be forgotten by history thanks to physical books of hers no longer being printed and all eBooks require a phone or a tablet plus Internet access to read. Whatever happened to being able t read an old-fashioned paper books outside on a beautiful sunny summer day? Good luck getting your device's screen bright enough to be able to actually see and read a digital edition on a sunny day, they don't get bright enough. Good bye Ayn Rand. I never knew you and now I never will.

Writing style is terrible. There are two cardboard characters replaced with different names throughout the book. The book could be half as long, with the same points repeated throughout. As for the ideology, the idea of free trade and production is nice, but the entire book reinforces dangerous principals around not caring for your neighbor unless they're of value to you.

Overzealous, preachy, toxic trash. A terrible execution of a terrible concept. The fact that it's as popular as it is both astonishes and sickens me. This is one of the few books which I'd say the world would've been much better off had it never been written.