Read Anthem Ayn Rand Pete Cross 9781974935529 Books

Product details Audio CD Publisher Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition (February 12, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1974935523

Anthem Ayn Rand Pete Cross 9781974935529 Books Reviews

• I love Ayn Rand and consider her "Atlas Shrugged" a masterpiece...well, all but the repetitive radio address at the end... I get what she's trying to say in this earlier attempt, but there are just too many plot holes and logic gaps for me to take "Anthem" seriously. For instance, how could this kid who has been totally taken care of his entire life suddenly just know how to kill a bird (with a rock, on his first try, no less), gut it and cook it? He "discovers" electricity and experiments extensively with it, but knows instinctively how to handle it so it doesn't kill him? Not buyin' that. Her point is valid, but it's too easy to dismiss buried in the bad writing. Still, any true Ayn Rand fan should read all her stuff, not just the best one, even this silly book to get a better, fuller picture of what she was trying to convey in all her writing.
• I like Ayn Rand. A lot of folks don't. That's their problem. Anthem is good science fiction. Is there a philosophical back drop to it all? Yes. Everything Rand has written contains some aspect of her philosophy. Most people I've talked to who specialize in literature do not support Rand's works. I've never really fit into the majority on any aspect other than ethics. I like Rand's works. I like aspects of her philosophy. Anthem has a decent story line. I think it could've been edited better and more of the plot could've been developed better, but that's hind sight from an amateur.
• "My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before! I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."
• As usual, you cannot go wrong reading anything by the stellar Ms. Rand... Her fantastic, yet realistic depiction of man's inner and outer struggles for personal identity and freedom is truly universal. A MUST READ!
• Beautiful copy used for highschool English class and for the Ayn Rand scholarship essay. Large enough margins for writing notes and/or thoughts.
• Anyone who has ever struggled through “The Fountainhead” knows that there is a philosophy associated with the author. While this dystopian tale does a decent job of hiding it, it eventually springs forth like one of Roark’s buildings.
• Any Rand writes in a way that caused new visions of where our society is going to a time when the masses will obliterate the individual. To me, it is a tale of Everyman, who finds his “self” in the desolate places.
• While the moral is good, the manner of writing is difficult at first to read but eventually I got used to the style which I did not care for.