Posted on 06/10/2013 1:48:12 PM PDT by upchuck
Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website.
The book’s 60th anniversary was on June 6th, amidst a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance. ...
Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EST, sales of Orwell's '1984' are up 91 percent on the Amazon "Movers and Shakers list."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Ponder what your government is doing to you.
One of the best things about the book is its description ofhow people are brainwashed and voluntarily and happily support the Propaganda State.
One of those novels that are more interesting to talk about than to actually read.
“60th anniversary was on June 6th”
How so? It was published in 1949.
I wonder if it is still required reading, or did the schools remove this influential novel?
We have gone from Atlas Shrugged to 1984 in five years... what is next? Brave New World or HG wells the time machine with the Morlocks...?
The government is buying up the copies...just like all the bullets.
From your article.
“Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EST, sales of Orwell’s ‘1984’ are up 91 percent on the Amazon “Movers and Shakers list.””
The Morloks are already here. Just go to the local Democrat’s Party office and look in the window...
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”
Since only one book is mentioned, it makes your remarks special funny.
Being a progressive means never having to read a book to criticize it!
Got it.
People picking up copies of one of 0bama's Playbooks.
Are you referring to me? I’ve read 1984. It’s journalistic fiction that doesn’t need to be read more than once and where a synopsis gives you the same effect as the prose. Nabokov hated it for example.
Any serious reader will find a PDF version on the internet.
But that raises an interesting point; how will Obama's "firemen" deal with PDF and kindle editions?
Oh! The irony...
Nabokov wrote a far superior dystopia at around the same time (Bend Sinister). Also, Nabokov was a conservative and Orwell was a socialist.
Thinking back, I’m shocked this was required reading in high school. LOL Not anymore, I’m guessing.
Can’t argue with that.
Y’all need to read The Phoenix Rising series of 3 books by Johnstone. His Out of the Ashes series is great, too.
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