- couldn't finish this one but I tried -

Eggers is trying to make is an interesting point, but within the first 40 pages, I felt like his imagination was limited to Steve Jobs ruling the world into the utopia of all utopias. If you get as far as Mae getting a tour around the company's grounds, and don't feel like it's Apple on crack, then maybe it's not as obvious as I thought it was going to be. I pretty much knew where the story was going. I even flipped to the end, and I was like, "Oh, okay, saw that coming."

I gave up on reading The Circle. Only 40 pages in, and 420 pages to end up what where I know the story is going. People are a little bit better off looking into Big Brother type of movements, studies of people who are addicted to technology to know the author's intent, or just trying to get off of the internet for an hour, or a day, and see how far we get from understanding not only how much we personally rely on it, but the government and society does too.