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Buddy Read: THE CIRCLE by Dave Eggers
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Yes! I'll be starting it this weekend!
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Great! I'm about 22 pages in so just started myself.
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Any comments on this book? Has anyone seen the movie as well?
I have started... but I haven't gotten very far. 😬I am being very 🐌
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I'm progressing slowly. Hear the movie is quite disappointing and that the book is better! Duh, right?!
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Me too Lol
Whew! Thank goodness, I was beginning to feel guilty!
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NEVER! ;-)
Allison wrote: "Hear the movie is quite disappointing and that the book is better! Duh, right?!"Yep, that's usually how it works -- at least for bookworms and book snails!
Although to be fair, I can think of a recent exception for me: I thought the movie adaptation of The Host was better than the book.
I finally have acquired an e-copy of this book. Is anyone loving or despising it so far?
I can sum this book up in one word: (view spoiler)Not hating it, but certainly not loving it. The concept is good. The characters and execution and pace... meh. The ratings for this one are all over the place, and I can see why.
Hope y'all are liking it ok, or at least having fun not liking it. It did have its moments, mostly involving (view spoiler).
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Is anyone loving or despising it so far?"
I'm having a hard time getting into it! I keep putting it on the back burner.
THE CIRCLE is also the winner for our March 2018 Book of the Month read. If you are reading it in March, feel free to comment at:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Has anyone finished THE CIRCLE? If so, your thoughts on it?
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The Circle by Dave Eggers
Book description: (view spoiler)[
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO.
Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in America - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge. (hide spoiler)]