Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Circle |
| author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN-10 | 0-241-97037-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-97037-9 |
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| date | 2014-Nov-04 |
The Circle is a company in the digital age, not unlike google or facebook today. It is high tech, it is communication based, it is big-data and it is heaven for the employees. Mae Holland was able to get a position at The Circle and her live changes considerably. To the better. Or the worse?
For this book there should be two or three ratings, one for the first third of the book (4 stars), one for the rest of the book (no more than 3 stars) and possibly another one for what the book tries to make transparent (5 stars). The topic is very contemporary. The book shows an extremely realistic trend in our wired civilization. These things shown in the book are really happening, here and now. Many of the ideas and things born at The Circle may seem exaggerated at first sight, but thinking a bit more about it, most of them are actually existing in one or another way. Existing today, not in the future. So the book could be an eye opener, could be something to make us aware of what is going on. Unfortunately it does not succeed in that enough, I feel. There is not enough opposition in the book, not enough protagonists with scepticism (or simply common sense) which do open our eyes. Probably the author intended it that way, thinking that things are overdrawn enough for everyone to realize. But I feel just showing extremes without the opposition does neither make people think, nor does it make a book gripping.
The idea of the book is very good. It is timely. It highlights many things which do exist in our world today but which we often do not recognize as what they are. But the book does not do this as well and interestingly as I think it could have.
