Sales of Orwell’s '1984' up 69 percent on Amazon list

Washington Examiner ^ | Monday, June 10, 2013 | Staff

[Cringing Negativism Network]

http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/06/10/sales-of-orwells-1984-spike-in-wake-of-nsa-security-leaks/

Just an aside, found this via google.

Not sure about the website yet, but the article seems to be from today.

[upchuck]

One of the best things about the book is its description ofhow people are brainwashed and voluntarily and happily support the Propaganda State.

In other words, the Low Information Voters. Snug as a bug in a rug supplied, for free, by the Marxists.

[eccentric]

We listen to audio books in the car and I was considering this one next... Too poor to buy, I use libraries.

[KarlInOhio]

“60th anniversary was on June 6th”
How so? It was published in 1949.

wash exam 10.6.13 book pubdate ungood malreported rectify

Looks like Winston Smith has another note on his desk for a news story to fix.

[Borges]

Nicely played.

[publius911]

Also, Nabokov was a conservative and Orwell was a socialist.

OMG!
You've never read Main Kampf, or Das Kapital or Motorcycle Diaries?

[Buckeye McFrog]

“60th anniversary was on June 6th”
How so? It was published in 1949.

Big Brother says 113-60=49.

[Sigurdrifta]

Another in this vein...

“The Children’s Story”, by James Clavell (author of Shogun).

Originally published in 1963.

Of particular relevance to people with children in public schools.

[wideawake]

Orwell was a much better essayist/memoirist than he was a novelist.

What's the old saying?

"There's a novel inside of every journalist, and that's a great place for it."

Still 1984 was a very valuable work in many ways.

[wideawake]

Are any of those books well-written?

They are more historical documents than they are literature - should be read as such.

Which was kind of Borges' point.

[SampleMan]

I watch the news and call it “1984 pt. II”

[Salamander]

Cyber-salamanders.

[Borges]

What do those texts have to do with anything

[Oztrich Boy]

Nabokov wrote a far superior dystopia at around the same time (Bend Sinister).

So his opinion of 1984 is based on petulance and jealousy ?

[Borges]

Or that he didn’t think Orwell was a distinguished writer.

[Revolting cat!]

Like Catch-22.

[Borges]

Oh I thought C22 was pretty funny. It’s told in a series of small self contained sketches so its easy to read a bit at a time and put down for extended periods.

[Revolting cat!]

A much better dystopia is “We” by Zamyatin. Orwell and Huxley read it before writing theirs.

[Borges]

I’ve read it. It’s awesome.

[Chaguito]

Brave New World — Soma — Low Information Voters