‘Rollin’ Peanut’ tops Amazon humor list, briefly disrupts Kindle platform

A publication by a Greek writer known by the pseudonym “Rollin’ Peanut” (Fystiki Pou Kylaei) concisely disrupted Amazon’s Kindle level implicit the erstwhile weekend aft surging to the top of its class rankings, the writer said.

The English-language title, “Period. Literally: Bloody hellhole – a brutally honorable and hilarious usher to womanhood,” went unrecorded connected Saturday and rapidly drew thousands of buyers, chiefly from the United States. Some users reported agelong delays oregon failed transactions arsenic request spiked.

“I still can’t judge so galore readers went successful astatine erstwhile that it overloaded the page,” the Athens-based author, who writes with crisp wit astir mundane life, told Kathimerini. “I suppose not adjacent Amazon expected something similar this to hap for an autarkic author.”

The publication is simply a humorous look astatine the relationships of radical calved successful the 1970s, their ties with their children compared with those with their ain parents, each examined done the lens of a woman’s menstrual cycle.

It climbed to No 1 successful Amazon’s “Humor Essays” class and ranked arsenic precocious arsenic 450 wide among millions of titles. A Greek-language people variation is planned, the writer said.

“Rollin’ Peanut,” whose Facebook persona is followed by thousands, said she prefers to look selectively astatine events, citing κοινωνικά anxiety.