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The Circle (Kindle Edition) Considering Eggers' reputation, I was amazed to find this novel to be so heavy-handed and obvious. I'll quickly provide an example that is not a plot spoiler. The Circle is an amazing company, a sort of Google on steroids, full of mind-blowing technology and brilliant employees. They introduce a video camera that has all sorts of capabilities: hi-def, ability to receive the video and control the camera from a computer, etc. Most impressively, it is the size of a lollipop and costs less than $60. One could buy several of these--thousands if you have money or are a company--disguise them, and place them anywhere. When the product is unveiled to the employees of the Circle, the employees love it! Not one of these brilliant, independent thinkers stops to think of the privacy implications or the opportunities to use the product for crimes. A pedophile, for instance, could buy some of these lollipop cameras and install them anywhere children are likely to be. It is this kind of lemming behavior that happens repeatedly in the novel. None of the employees seems capable of asking even the most basic question. Preposterous. Eggers could have made his points about technology in a short essay, but instead wrote a long, awful novel.