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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
thought provoking, but wouldn't read again. has made me think about social media and over sharing.
Wow. I really liked the premise of this novel, but I don't think I ever hated a character more than I did Mae. How can someone be that self-centered?
The ending was good but not really surprising anymore, given her character development throughout the story.
Still, I think that it's not that much of a dystopian setting if we're looking at what technology is already capable of today.
All in all, it was a book worth reading and ohne almost living up to its hype.:)
The ending was good but not really surprising anymore, given her character development throughout the story.
Still, I think that it's not that much of a dystopian setting if we're looking at what technology is already capable of today.
All in all, it was a book worth reading and ohne almost living up to its hype.:)
What a book! 1984 in modern times! A brainwashed protagonist...without moral! I could never live like that.
In the begining I thought what a nice job, nice company. Ht then it became more and more like Big Brother in 1984 by George Orwell! And it was scary! Very scary! We are transparent already. But if we continue like that we will end up like the ones in the book! And that is frightening!
In the begining I thought what a nice job, nice company. Ht then it became more and more like Big Brother in 1984 by George Orwell! And it was scary! Very scary! We are transparent already. But if we continue like that we will end up like the ones in the book! And that is frightening!
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I can't say that I enjoyed this audiobook, or even that I would've liked it better in print, for a few reasons:
1. The protagonist is annoyingly naive and compliant and immature and does not go through any transformation or redemption, so she just annoyed me throughout.
2. Mae, a woman, is the main character, but this is read by a very deep-voiced man who doesn't have enough range to carry off the variety of characters, especially the female ones.
3. It is too obvious and shallow to be satisfying. Was this written for people living in the backwoods of the world who have no idea that our every move is traced and logged in data banks and that our identities, virtual and actual, are not as private as we want them to be? This didn't go deep enough and wasn't expansive in any way as far as technology vs. humanity is concerned.
For anyone looking for a glimpse of a future that is ruled by technology, I recommend "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart because that at least had some comic relief.
1. The protagonist is annoyingly naive and compliant and immature and does not go through any transformation or redemption, so she just annoyed me throughout.
2. Mae, a woman, is the main character, but this is read by a very deep-voiced man who doesn't have enough range to carry off the variety of characters, especially the female ones.
3. It is too obvious and shallow to be satisfying. Was this written for people living in the backwoods of the world who have no idea that our every move is traced and logged in data banks and that our identities, virtual and actual, are not as private as we want them to be? This didn't go deep enough and wasn't expansive in any way as far as technology vs. humanity is concerned.
For anyone looking for a glimpse of a future that is ruled by technology, I recommend "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart because that at least had some comic relief.
A story of impending doom. Follows a young persons slip into madness. Characters were a bit thin but the story was good, even if predictable.
This was quite possibly the creepiest book I've ever read. 1984 was scarily prescient, but The Circle, so heavily based on technologies that are quite honestly either real today or just on the cusp or being real, combined with our steady migration of our lives into the digital, takes the fear of what could happen to a whole new level. The idea of being watched 24/7 is creepy enough. The idea of much of the world's population believing they have an inalienable right to do so? Terrifying.
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
This book presents an exaggerated example of what would happen if technology becomes all-encompassing, with cameras everywhere and people broadcasting their lives to millions of viewers 24-7 and data drives every action. I actually enjoyed the details of this futuristic world on the campus of a Google-like company more than the main character, Mae. Truthfully, Mae was a terrible human being. I was shocked by the things she did and her inability to be empathetic, especially when it concerned her parents. And the all-or-nothing attitude she had was unrealistic, especially when dealing with older people who aren't as comfortable with technology. In the end when , I thought that was the most realistic way to deal with what had happened.