Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Circle by Dave Eggers

36 reviews

oleducky's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Difficult to read due to excessive repetition and the dumbest main character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Minor: Car accident, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Child death

asafekindofhigh's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide, Body shaming, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

cecinamo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Really good and terrifying book! 
Sometimes it really stressed me out reading about how social interaction and having no privacy were basically mandatory o_o… 
The mc is a classical unreliable narrator. It’s maddening how self centered and close minded she is at some points. 
The book explores the dangers of a completely digitalized and surveilled world. It’s very interesting and scary. 
I think the ending fell a bit short, but overall it was very good! :> 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Car accident, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Gaslighting, Blood, Stalking, Misogyny, Grief, Death, and Mental illness

phantomgecko's review

challenging sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I hated this book. It's agonizing to read.

But the 4 star rating isn't a mistake. Eggers had a message and related it perfectly.

Science fiction is a critique of the present. The Circle uses hyperbole but like just barely. The real possibility of this particular dystopia is chilling and sooooo frustrating.

Mae is the perfect protagonist. I didn't agree with a single one of her choices. Everything she chose was wrong or stupid. Her thought processes were believable, though, so it unfortunately all made sense. To have a character that swallowed all the propaganda (and helped create it) as the main character made the message that much more effective. More effective than just having the "bad guys" do all the bad things.

Honestly, I could write a really in depth literary analysis of this novel, but I don't have the time, and doing so would be too depressing/aggravating. And also patronizing, I think. I was originally going to point out specific things that happen in the book and how insidious they are, but...as a reader I trust you to see it. 

It's not subtle. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Classism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Cursing, Fatphobia, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

itsareallyweirdworld's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death and Suicide

theloveroflovers's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

The characters are so unlikable that at some point you get the urge to keep reading to see them realise their stupidity. The writting stile is good but to detailed, slow-paced. The book was too long and the end wasn't sadisfying.

If you wanr to read the book, listen to the audibook instead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pedophilia, Cancer, Cursing, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Murder

queen_of_vice's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

It's not worth it because it doesn't add anything new or relevant to the conversation within it's genre.

I'm so disappointed we read this garbage in school instead of a good dystopian novel.

The author literally bragged about not having researched anything about how the internet and technical stuff he tried to include in his story work and it shows. 

All the characters are unlikable and the 'romance' plot was so unnecessary and bad. The sex scenes were even worse.
The author can't write realistic women either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

shortstackmayor's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Car accident, Suicide, and Fatphobia

lizwizwiz's review

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Fatphobia

Minor: Death

breedee95's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is tense. So disturbing to think that our dependence on social media and need for validation and attention online could be like this. The Circle is a dystopian novel about one young woman’s first couple months at a thriving internet/tech company, the Circle. It explores entitlement, the criminality of privacy, and what it means to consent to your entire life being on the internet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Sexual content