Dave Eggers: "The Circle"

[imjustagirl]

Had you said to me "Dave Eggers wrote a book skewering social media" I might have considered it.

But reading the third-grade level, connect-the-dots writing in the first post made me sad that Eggers' name is on it and happy that I saved the money. I pictured him with a brick, hitting me over the head, as I read it.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Had you said to me "Dave Eggers wrote a book skewering social media" I might have considered it.

But reading the third-grade level, connect-the-dots writing in the first post made me sad that Eggers' name is on it and happy that I saved the money. I pictured him with a brick, hitting me over the head, as I read it.

That's certainly one of the criticisms against it, yes. The Mercer character is the Greek chorus. If he makes that same speech in a movie, I'd get awful irritated.

I do think that the passage is palatable until he gets to, "It's like snack food."

"Less words," as my wife likes to remind me sometimes.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Had you said to me "Dave Eggers wrote a book skewering social media" I might have considered it.

But reading the third-grade level, connect-the-dots writing in the first post made me sad that Eggers' name is on it and happy that I saved the money. I pictured him with a brick, hitting me over the head, as I read it.

That's certainly one of the criticisms against it, yes. The Mercer character is the Greek chorus. If he makes that same speech in a movie, I'd get awful irritated.

I do think that the passage is palatable until he gets to, "It's like snack food."

"Less words," as my wife likes to remind me sometimes.

The Big Ragu's wife is married to you, too?

 

[Bradley Guire]

Edit:

So, I took it back to the library after about 120 pages or so. It's an exhausting read to me. I got tired of reading all the rambling paragraphs about how the main character had to go through a week worth of missed posts, and as she responded all it did was generate even more posts to read. And on and on and on. Yes, I get that was the point. He showed me that she spent so much time catching up to that crap that it was all she accomplished for a few hours. I didn't think I could finish the book, no matter how good the story may turn out after the set up. I'm not into social media much. I have a Facebook that's mostly for communicating with family. A Twitter handle left over from work that I emptied and never use but keep because it's in my name. This place, and I mostly ***** about wrestling here. That's it. So I didn't want to read a book about people doing all that inane crap when I try not to be that way in my own life. I'm just going to go back and finish "The Shining."

 

[LongTimeListener]

PORTLAND, ME—Saying that he wanted to make things as easy as possible for all the dumb****s to locate, Back Pages Bookshop owner Stephen Larrick told reporters Friday that he had placed all of the Dave Eggers titles on a table near the independent bookstore’s entrance where any stupid son of a ***** who wandered in could find them.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/independent-bookstore-puts-the-dave-eggers-right-w,34578/

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Movie coming soon. Tom Hanks with trim white beard thing that is in vogue for 50+ males now:

The Circle Trailer: Emma Watson Is Making Her Own Damn Black Mirror With Tom Hanks and John Boyega

 

[YankeeFan]