A review by rhymeswithnova
The Circle by Dave Eggers

Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.

The main character goes on mental tangents about how "disgusting" her fat ex-boyfriend is. Repeatedly. It made an otherwise interesting and engaging book intolerable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Ableism

Fatphobia example (one of several):

[She felt] better with every mile between her and that fat fuck. The fact that she'd ever slept with him made her physically sick. Had she been possessed by some weird demon? Her body must have been overtaken, for those three years, by some terrible force that blinded her to his wretchedness. He'd been fat even then, hadn't he? What kind of guy is fat in high school?