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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

'Atlas Shrugged' author sees resurgence

According to this article on CNN:

Rand book sales are "going through the roof," said Yaron Brook, the president of the Ayn Rand Institute. According to Brook, "Atlas Shrugged," her most famous novel, has sold more copies in the first four months of 2009 than it did for all of 2008 -- and in 2008, it sold 200,000 copies. It's been in Amazon.com's top 50 for more than a month.

Not bad for a 1,100-page doorstop of a book that came out in 1957, by an author who died in 1982.

"So many people see the parallels with actually what's going on, with the government taking over the banks, with the government kind of taking over the automobile industry, a president who fires the CEO of a major American corporation. These are the kind of things that come out of 'Atlas Shrugged,' " Brook said.


Don't make me put my mind on strike!

I'm working on my fifth concerto...

Now, when is that movie coming out and how poorly adapted will it be?

1 Comments:

  • Amusing choice of word in "SEES resurgence". Considering the author is quite dead. :(

    By Anonymous LanthonyS, at 10:34 AM  

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