Tag: Dave Eggers
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Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia
Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Circle by Dave Eggers
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013) The Circle refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living…
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On privacy…
SHARING IS CARING. SECRETS ARE LIES. PRIVACY IS THEFT. —The Circle by Dave Eggers One of the ideas explored in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle is the loss, and even voluntary relinquishing, of privacy in a world where everything is filmed and nothing is ever deleted. Considering the revelations this year about the NSA’s electronic snooping,…
Shannon Turlington 