If you haven't yet figured out the answer to this immortal query... I HIGHLY recommend that you run to the bookstore right now and pick up a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
There are books that we fall in love with for their pure entertainment value. There are some we pick up because of their popularity and controversy at the time (which I fully admit is why I started reading Harry Potter, and The Golden Compass). Some we chose to read because their cover catches our eye. Then there are those, like Atlas Shrugged that come recommended to us.
If you would have asked me last week what my favourite book was - I'd have told you I had two: The Odyssey by Homer and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Today I'd answer with no hesitation in my voice: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. This book got to me. I started reading and was hooked - not only by the characters or the plot but because of the ideas, the philosophy, the beliefs. It all just seemed so right. I did not expect where the book was leading - but when it got there - I was thrilled and entranced. It made me feel like everything just went into alignment in my own life. As though, I understood my own morals and values better by reading it. I can't explain it and make others understand it - you just have to read it for yourself. Perhaps you'll disagree with me - and that's fine - as long as it makes you think.
That's what the story is about... what would happen if the world's leading thinker's went on strike? What if a man set out declaring that he would stop the motor of the world - and did? What if all human beings willingly gave up their minds and stopped thinking? This story is a mystery, not about the death of man's body but of his spirit...
"I swear - by my life and love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
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