Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | Fiction Book Club

Book was suggested by: Eugene

Pages to read: 1291
ISBN: 9780393355628 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780452286368 (Edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•Who is John Galt?
•What does Dagny Taggart do?
•Why does Dagny build the John Galt line? How was the name chosen?
•hat did Rearden invent? What social consequences are there for Rearden’s invention?
•Why did Rearden voluntarily give up the patent on the invention?
•What is the impact of social policies?
•How to responds to competition?
•Who are the looters? How do they loot others?
•Why do the looters need the victims consent?
•What happened to the persecuted producers and thinkers? Those with brains?
•Whose interest should take priority?
•What did Francisco d’Anconia do? Why did Francisco do what Francisco do?
•What does Ragnar Dannekjöd do? Why does Ragnar do that?
•Why does James Taggart marry Cherryl Brooks? What does Cherryl think of James?
•How to determine need and ability? What does it mean to pay based on need, and punish based on ability?
•What is the aristocracy of pull?
•What is the purpose of money?
•Why were so many laws created?
•What is Project X?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My review of the book:
https://www.inquiryreviews.com/2022/07/review-of-atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand.html

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Summary from Goodreads:
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor—and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy—to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction—to the philosopher who becomes a pirate—to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murder—and rebirth—of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.