Scan barcode
A review by singingsfun
The Circle by Dave Eggers
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Favorite Quotes:
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.”
“First of all, I know it’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. Individuallyyou don’t know what you’re doing collectively.”
“Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.”
“A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.”
“Mae, so many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it”
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.”
“First of all, I know it’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. Individuallyyou don’t know what you’re doing collectively.”
“Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.”
“A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.”
“Mae, so many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it”