The Circle by Dave EggersMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
2013
Many comments regarding this book.
It's a book I liked and hated at the same time. Although the writing simplistic and the concept not unique, the overwhelming idea of utopian societies is fascinating.
I have to admit that I became consumed with the novel and how it would end. I think that is what fascinates me most about utopian/dystopian novels....the concepts of good versus bad, right versus wrong, etc. the grey areas where people live and get lost....intermingled with those concrete single focused people. The leaders versus the followers. The same cautionary tale told from a different point of view. Don't we all know how these stories end? Should we?
August 22, 2015 – Started Reading
September 6, 2015 –
44.0% "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.."
September 7, 2015 –
54.0% "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.""
September 9, 2015 – Finished Reading
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