Book review: The Circle

Title: The Circle
Author: Dave Eggers
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars

Summary: Big Brother is good when it's positioned correctly.  Really, it's all about the marketing. When is a lack of privacy a good thing?  Well, it arguably controls people behavior.  Imagine how less corrupt our government would be if every conversation our politicians had was recorded.  But is a life with no privacy really a society that we want to be in?  Think of all the data that it would create!  And of course it's a good thing to share your thoughts on everything with the world.  Everybody wants to know everything about everybody else!  And people who don't agree, well...they're weird.

Review:  I've never read any of Eggers' work (at least that I can recall), but the name is prominent enough that I think he writes well-regarded books.  This book tackles our increasing lack of privacy as a result of our current data-driven world. The Circle is thinly disguised Google.

1984 is one of my favorite books of all time.  This felt like an update of sorts to 1984 but doesn't quite hit the mark. There is that sense of foreboding, and while I appreciate how those that don't agree with this lifestyle are treated, it goes on for too long.

Time to write review: 5 mins+