3.5 starsScary book because it seems so close to potential reality. It's social media taking over tracking everyone and turning us into a totalitarian government. There's no privacy, and everyone must participate. After reading this book, I'm more in favor of unplugging frequently. I felt like g...
The Circle - Dave Eggers *2.5 STARS* It's a slippery slope with transparency isn't it? Where do you draw the line? Where do the individual rights come in when you are trying to do better by society? Those are all the things that were going through my mind as I was reading this book. And I ...
Unfortunately, common sense does not always win out. Don't get me wrong, this was a really enjoyable book and I read it rather quickly - in a weekend, basically. But it was creepy and terrifying and deeply unsettling. I'm not really sure what else I can say about it without diving off the depend i...
Set in a time not too far in the future, a company named The Circle has gobbled up Facebook, Google, Twitter, and pretty much any other company you can think of. Being an employee - a Circler - is the dream of many, including Mae Holland. When her friend Annie gets Mae a job in Customer Experience, ...
This could have been a good book, if it wasn´t for all these annoying, obnoxious and poorly written characters. The worst one is Mae, the main character. A 24-year old with a mindset of a 12-year old and at times I felt the urge to punch her in the face, she is that stupid and annoying. There was no...
This book is terrifying. Terrifying because of how close to home it hits, and how anyone you know could be Mae, Circle is a digital identity platform that one can use to log into everything that verifies your real identity. This book could very well be our world in five or ten years. Everyone seem...
Inhalt: 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 univers...
What if one company would run all your internet activity in one easy, safe and visible place? The Circle is now the most powerful and influential company in the world. Mae Holland know’s she made it, when she lands a job at the glittering Campus of the Circle in California. Her ideals and ambitions ...
This sounds intriguing. For me it is a MUST read. I came across this frightening article this week. Wall Street Journal "If Facebook and Google were to get married, The Circle would be their direct result of their procreation. The Circle takes the social aspects (and lack of privacy) of Facebook a...
I finished this book over a week ago, as the first read for our local "Books on Tap" book club, and have been delaying writing the review ever since. I wasn't sure what I wanted to write about it, or perhaps that I had so many thoughts that an overriding drive to the review was slow in coming. I've ...
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