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DNF at 20%~ Normally I try to make it to at least 50% but with this one I just couldn't do it. It was so mind-numbing. I'm lucky I got as far as I did. No way could I sit through another 13 hours of audio. Sorry.
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A dystopian novel where we see where the internet takes us-- where transparency is the future and secrets are lies. I enjoyed the concept but Eggers belabored the point, in my mind.
The protagonist is Mae and at point you wonder if she is unreliable or stupid as she gets sucked into this future.
Hard not to see Facebook in this and Epic ( being from Madison, WI!)
The protagonist is Mae and at point you wonder if she is unreliable or stupid as she gets sucked into this future.
Hard not to see Facebook in this and Epic ( being from Madison, WI!)
Between 3 and 4 stars but anything that keeps me glued to the pages usually gets a bump. Definitely not a perfect book by any means but provides much to think about in our world of online connectivity.
This book is like the Stepford Wives if the Stepford wives were Google creators...all about the digital age and what should we reveal online written from the point of view of a young woman brand new at work at the Circle. I read everything by Dave Eggers...because his writing is amazing...this one was hard to put down but really unnerving, so I am not sure if I would recommend it to anyone. I kind of want to cry and never go on the internet again...
Excellent intriguing futuristic mystery
#zeitgeist #zingy #zooms
Mae is an anti-heroine. As transparent as she is to the world in the novel, she is equally as opaque to the reader (and possibly the writer). Still, the chill-inducing machinations of social media corporations—and their willing victims, namely me and the rest of the planet—hits very close to home.
Mae is an anti-heroine. As transparent as she is to the world in the novel, she is equally as opaque to the reader (and possibly the writer). Still, the chill-inducing machinations of social media corporations—and their willing victims, namely me and the rest of the planet—hits very close to home.
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