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Kelly
is 54% done
So far this book reminds me of the historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
— Sep 07, 2015 09:28AM
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Kelly
is 44% done
The writing isn't stellar but the premise of the novel is compelling enough to continue reading. Although different, I can't help but be reminded of George Orwell's 1984 and Adolph Huxley's A Brave New World. Most likely this is due to The Circle being the center of this "utopian/dystopian" community. The central themes of privacy versus transparency, isolation versus socialization, fitting in censuses fitting out..
— Sep 06, 2015 05:44PM
