A review by jiujensu
The Circle by Dave Eggers

dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

Pretty good book. I was reminded of Black Mirror's Arkangel, Nosedive, Entire History of you as well as 1984. We're well into this digital age, but all the fears we had at the beginning are still worth thinking over, so the book is still relevant. Reading it a decade after it was written was a bit like reading Vonnegut's Player Piano in current times, but as with that, the points are still valid. 

I hate the main character but her insistence and single mindedness really prompt the reader to think of all the problems with social media and so much of our own lives being digital. A lot is fiction, but enough is familiar to make one claustrophobic.

Also, I'm Gen X, i watched the world change over to digital - i still can't decide if all this is a net positive. I'll be thinking about these things till i die. The theme doesn't get old.

A little warning on fat phobia - maybe it was to make a point about another terrible attribute of Mae, but it seemed a bit much. Also autistic was used as something like a slur i think. These things bothered me.