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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
dark
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
Enjoyable science fiction mystery, although characters felt flat and protagonist isn't especially likeable.
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I didn't like the story and thought it was way over simplified. But somehow it was still very compelling.
The Circlers irritated me, May irritated me with her ignorance, the whole book kinda irritated me.
This was a wild ride! Luckily, my own company doesn't foist nearly as much Kool-aid as The Circle, but some of the corporate culture stuff rang true. Watching Mae navigate all that was a bit like watching a car crash, with some twists I did not see coming. The Circle and its sequel are a bleak indictment of technology's invasion of our privacy and, while bordering on the absurd, each escalation still managed to hit home.
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Eggers wrote the prequel to 1984. Disturbing plot.
AUDIOBOOK. A bit on the dramatic side for me, but there were some great and scary idea points.
The day I finished reading this book someone on Facebook linked to this post by Mark Zuckerberg about 'Building Global Community'. Made it a slightly creepy read!
This book will appeal to the Black Mirror crowd; it's nothing ground breaking and is quite predictable in its plot (but dystopian novels sort of tend to be?). Still really enjoyed it - looking forward to the film, because it looks like it's going to differ from the book quite significantly.
This book will appeal to the Black Mirror crowd; it's nothing ground breaking and is quite predictable in its plot (but dystopian novels sort of tend to be?). Still really enjoyed it - looking forward to the film, because it looks like it's going to differ from the book quite significantly.
This was an engaging, fast paced story. Not great literature but a well written cautionary tale. Thought provoking about our ever intrusive "friends" that we depend on throughout our day.
I love a good rant against technology and surveillance. I hate reading that rant over and over and over and over and over. By page fifty, I GOT IT. By page one hundred, ARE YOU DONE YET EGGERS? By page one fifty, PLEASE WRAP IT UP OR AT LEAST CHANGE IT UP. By page the end, YUP, THAT COULD HAVE ENDED FIFTY PAGES IN. Eggers had a great, chilling, modern and aware novella. He wrote a tedious, ongoing, never-ending book. His hundreds of pages of attempts at elucidation made the whole thing foggier instead. I went from caring and assessing my own Internet and social media use to yawning at the SAME THING being said, being done, over and over. And there wasn't a single good character (as in, well done character) to hold your attention or make you care or pull you through the repetition. And what the heck was that world's-most-obvious deep sea creature symbolism? An attempt at depth? Or maybe Eggers was just concerned that, having made his point sixty times already, you still might not have caught what he was saying...