The Ayn Rand Institue is conducting a chapter-by-chapter, eight month discussion for Atlas Shrugged, for new readers and experienced alike.
https://ari.aynrand.org/blog/2017/07/28/celebrate-60-years-of-atlas-shrugged-with-the-atlas-project
>This October marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s magnum opus. In celebration of this anniversary, ARI is sponsoring The Atlas Project, an online discussion group about the book. Participants can read a chapter a week, review and discuss questions we’ll post to the Project’s Facebook group, and watch weekly live sessions led by Greg Salmieri and me (Ben Bayer) every Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. Pacific (8:30 p.m. eastern) via Facebook Live on the official Atlas Shrugged Facebook page. You can learn more about how the group will be run by watching the video of Greg and me up above.
>The primary intended audience of the Project is first-time readers of Atlas. For this reason, a strict no-spoiler rule will be enforced both on the online discussion group and in our Facebook Live broadcasts. But we do encourage those who’ve already read the book to read it again with us, both to experience it again on an appropriate occasion, and also to revisit what it was like to read it for the first time (in light of the experience first-time readers share with us).
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discussion questions for Chapter 2, "The Chain":
>Question 1: Why does Rearden “put his name on everything he touches,” and what can we infer about his character from this?
>Question 2: How does Lillian’s treatment of Hank compare to the rest of his family’s treatment?
>Question 3: How is Rearden’s approach to problems in his personal life like and unlike his approach to problems in his career?
>Question 4: In what respects are Rearden and Dagny alike, and in what respects are they different?
>Question 5: Does Rearden need personal relationships? How can we tell?