Posted on 11/07/2024 6:31:44 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel set in a totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling books list following Donald Trump’s reelection.
It saw a whopping 6,866% surge in sales, according to Amazon figures early Thursday.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” takes place in a theocratic, male-dominated future America where the US Constitution is suspended, media is censored and women (the titular “handmaids”) are forced to bear children for the ruling class.
Many have harnessed comparisons to Atwood’s classic in the lead-up to the election, particularly around the topic of reproductive rights.
Other works of dystopian fiction have also dominated the bestseller list. Novels dealing with similar themes of oppression, such as George Orwell’s “1984” about pervasive surveillance and rigid governmental control and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” about a society in which books are banned entirely, have seen a 250% and 333% rise in Amazon sales, respectively.
The election has also boosted downloads of certain apps like Calm, a meditation app, which jumped 100 spots on the Apple App Store on election night, according to a Calm spokesperson.
Calm drew attention on social media after airing ads that gave viewers “30 seconds of silence” amid continuous election coverage.
The current number one bestselling book on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s lists is former first lady Melania Trump’s memoir, titled “Melania.”
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What? They want to make sure that their handbooks for tyranny do not disappear?
These people are insane.
Democrats looking for instruction manuals....
Insanity can be defined as not accepting reality and I see a lot of insane people just not accepting the reality which is a lot more pleasant.
Because the corrupt incompetent legacy media failed to do even 1% of their job so a bunch of brain dead fools don’t understand just how rabidly and loudly the Democrat machine has been lying
It like these clowns want to pretend none of the last 8 years happened
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We have been living under 1984 combined with BRAVE NEW WORLD, with a touch of Fahrenheit 451 and a pinch of WE. And we’ve now had years of Kafka’s THE TRIAL served up on us to boot!
I would suggest they also look into some of the writings and ideas of Dr. Jack Kervorkian.
LIBS are installing 1984 already with people in jail in England already for preaching.
A woman is in jail here for PRAYING near an abortion clinic.
As for Handmaid’s Tale, that’s leftist sex fantasy non-sense and it’d be more appropriately set in a current day Muslim country under Islam.
Leftists are mentally ill. Look at the stats on their mental health. Nuts.
Feeds their mental illness as opposed to informs and edifies them.
The Dems were trying to get to 1984 the last 4+ years.
I love utopian stories.
BTW, I've seen the first season of the show. After a couple of episodes, I stopped rooting for the protagonist. Gotta root for Gilead. They were just trying to fix things.
Yes. And there's been a lot of Atlas Shrugged and Animal Farm as well.
I don’t care who you are, that’s just funny.
I had to read BRAVE NEW WORLD for required summer reading, the summer I was 13! And I understood it at that age!
We are NOW living with calling one's Mother MOM/MOTHER/MOMMY is now looked down on, people doing dope, a caste system, very little kids being given sex instructions at a far too early age, etc. is ALL in BRAVE NEW WORLD and has less than NOTHING at all to do with Trump!
The three minutes of HATE in 1984, being spied on, cutting supplies and being told what a great economy we have, constant wars, etc. is all LEFTY stuff!
And on and on and ON...re all dystopian stuff, which that left has brought down upon us!
And do I REALLY have to talk about J6 and the lawfare against Trump and those with him, being right out of THE TRIAL?
But we are supposed to believe, NOW, that this is what Trump will impose on us?
I had to read BRAVE NEW WORLD for required summer reading, the summer I was 13! And I understood it at that age!
We are NOW living with calling one's Mother MOM/MOTHER/MOMMY is now looked down on, people doing dope, a caste system, very little kids being given sex instructions at a far too early age, etc. is ALL in BRAVE NEW WORLD and has less than NOTHING at all to do with Trump!
The three minutes of HATE in 1984, being spied on, cutting supplies and being told what a great economy we have, constant wars, etc. is all LEFTY stuff!
And on and on and ON...re all dystopian stuff, which that left has brought down upon us!
And do I REALLY have to talk about J6 and the lawfare against Trump and those with him, being right out of THE TRIAL?
But we are supposed to believe, NOW, that this is what Trump will impose on us?
You cannot unsee it.
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