This book creates its own little universe where it then pretends to prove things about human nature and politics by having the story and caracters act accordingly. It would have been an mediocre book, but the fact that it poses as bringing intellectual insights is just sad, in that way, it's more a form of propaganda than a book. (And thats what it feels like once you see through its format). I guess some teenagers could be convinced that being selfish is the highest form of life. In that i would even call this book dangerous. But it shouldnt fool anyone with any knowlage of how the neo-liberal experiment that came from this and ideas like it ended in a total global catastrophe, in which we are still struggling.I can see where she is comming from with her hate of Stalinism, and trying to create an oposite ideology. Unfortunately it's pure bullshit!As a side note, being an architect myself, it works more or less the opposite way she descibes it. It's practicaly always a team effort.

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A timeless classic by Ayn Rand. A testament to her excellence as a romantic writer and philosopher. The journey of a hero and those who admired him in contrast to the “second-handed thinkers” who feared his greatness at living.

A book that should not be read without understanding its context. The author, the time and place in which it was written, not to mention the philosophical and cultural movements at that time. It is of course very interesting today as well, as a point of argument. But it’s no longer the whole story, as we today have a different insight of what individualism might mean.