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[arethinn]

‘1984’ sales soar after Trump claims, ‘alternative facts’:

First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Tuesday evening.

Well I flippin' well hope so!

I wonder if people are buying it for themselves, or if e.g. people are buying quantities to distribute, or something like that.

eta: Apparently the publisher has ordered a new print run to meet demand. crikey.

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[digitalsidhe]

Debating between, "You know, I should really re-read that; it's been too long" (probably close to 30 years, now I think about it!) and "maybe I 'should', but fuuuuck, it'd be way too disturbingly on-point right now."

[arethinn]

I know, right? :-/

[frameacloud]

Haha, wow! I just bought a copy of it for myself and started reading it the other day. I wonder if everybody could all form a reading group together...?

[andros_b]

I still have my old copy from high school. I'd read it again, but...yeah, maybe a bit too on-point. It's funny...when I first read it, it struck me as ridiculous; nobody would follow that. Now, though...guh.