I guess it just seems like a good time to re-read it.
According to Amazon’s Movers & Shakers countdown, three different editions of George Orwell’s alt-history book Nineteen Eighty-Four have shot up hundreds of spots on the chart since news of the NSA’s clandestine spying program PRISM broke late last week.
One edition in particular — the Centennial Edition — has exploded in popularity, increasing its sales rank by 7,000% in days.
And it’s clearly too late to point out that the book was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
