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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 70467" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">About <strong>1984</strong>...Here's an article about it on the Internet! <span style="color: #ffff00">I'm really glad people are ordering this book. With all of these Government Scandals, maybe more Americans are waking up...a few of them anyway!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/orwell-1984-sales_n_3423185.html" target="_blank">George Orwell's '1984' Book Sales Skyrocket In Wake Of NSA Surveillance Scandal </a></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">On June 8, 1949, George Orwell published a novel describing a fictitious world gripped in the vise of constant war and a society held captive by the ever-watchful gaze of a shadowy totalitarian dictator known as "Big Brother." The book has since found relevance </span><a href="http://wsws.org/en/articles/2010/06/1984-j12.html" target="_blank">again</a> <a href="http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x1809318865/FOCUS-Orwells-1984-takes-on-added-significance-in-2012#axzz2Vw69iOqT" target="_blank">and again</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/george-orwell-relevant-today-ever" target="_blank">in our modern world</a>.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">This week, in the wake of the ongoing </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/09/paul-krugman-nsa-surveillance_n_3411944.html" target="_blank">National Security Administration surveillance scandal</a><span style="color: #ccffcc">, dystopian classic <em>1984</em> is again experiencing a resurgence in popularity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Sales of at least three editions of <em>1984</em> have skyrocketed in recent days, according to </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books/ref=zg_bsms_nav_mov_1_mov?tag=gawkeramzn-20&ascsubtag=[type%7Clink[postId%7C512603930[authorId%7C5736122367926778714" target="_blank">Amazon's Movers & Shakers page</a><span style="color: #ccffcc">, which tracks items with the biggest positive sales change over the past 24 hours. Sales of the Centennial Edition of the book, for instance, had increased by more than 4,000 percent as of Tuesday afternoon. The book was ranked fifth on the Movers & Shakers list at press time. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">(Orwell's <em>Animal Farm</em>, another dystopian classic, has also seen an increase in popularity of more than 250 percent.)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">As the Los Angeles Times points out, </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nsa-surveillance-puts-george-orwells-1984-on-bestseller-lists-20130611,0,5672562.story" target="_blank">President Obama even referenced <em>1984</em></a> <span style="color: #ccffcc"> last week as he defended the NSA's broad and controversial Internet surveillance program, details of which recently leaked to the public.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance," Obama said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Google searches for the novel, oft cited as one of the 20th century's</span> <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/1984-1948-by-george-orwell/#1984-1948-by-george-orwell" target="_blank">best works of fiction</a><span style="color: #ccffcc">, have also increased in recent days, notes Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/orwell-1984-sales_n_3423185.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px">CLICK ME to see the News Video. </span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 70467, member: 2770"] [SIZE=5]About [B]1984[/B]...Here's an article about it on the Internet! [COLOR=#ffff00]I'm really glad people are ordering this book. With all of these Government Scandals, maybe more Americans are waking up...a few of them anyway![/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/orwell-1984-sales_n_3423185.html']George Orwell's '1984' Book Sales Skyrocket In Wake Of NSA Surveillance Scandal [/URL][/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ccffcc]On June 8, 1949, George Orwell published a novel describing a fictitious world gripped in the vise of constant war and a society held captive by the ever-watchful gaze of a shadowy totalitarian dictator known as "Big Brother." The book has since found relevance [/COLOR][URL='http://wsws.org/en/articles/2010/06/1984-j12.html']again[/URL] [URL='http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x1809318865/FOCUS-Orwells-1984-takes-on-added-significance-in-2012#axzz2Vw69iOqT']and again[/URL] [URL='http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/george-orwell-relevant-today-ever']in our modern world[/URL]. [COLOR=#ccffcc]This week, in the wake of the ongoing [/COLOR][URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/09/paul-krugman-nsa-surveillance_n_3411944.html']National Security Administration surveillance scandal[/URL][COLOR=#ccffcc], dystopian classic [I]1984[/I] is again experiencing a resurgence in popularity.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Sales of at least three editions of [I]1984[/I] have skyrocketed in recent days, according to [/COLOR][URL='http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books/ref=zg_bsms_nav_mov_1_mov?tag=gawkeramzn-20&ascsubtag=[type%7Clink[postId%7C512603930[authorId%7C5736122367926778714']Amazon's Movers & Shakers page[/URL][COLOR=#ccffcc], which tracks items with the biggest positive sales change over the past 24 hours. Sales of the Centennial Edition of the book, for instance, had increased by more than 4,000 percent as of Tuesday afternoon. The book was ranked fifth on the Movers & Shakers list at press time. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc](Orwell's [I]Animal Farm[/I], another dystopian classic, has also seen an increase in popularity of more than 250 percent.)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]As the Los Angeles Times points out, [/COLOR][URL='http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nsa-surveillance-puts-george-orwells-1984-on-bestseller-lists-20130611,0,5672562.story']President Obama even referenced [I]1984[/I][/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc] last week as he defended the NSA's broad and controversial Internet surveillance program, details of which recently leaked to the public.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance," Obama said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Google searches for the novel, oft cited as one of the 20th century's[/COLOR] [URL='http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/1984-1948-by-george-orwell/#1984-1948-by-george-orwell']best works of fiction[/URL][COLOR=#ccffcc], have also increased in recent days, notes Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed.[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/orwell-1984-sales_n_3423185.html'][SIZE=5]CLICK ME to see the News Video. [/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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