PositiveThe AtlanticShteyngart writes about technology with such ho-hum aplomb that I think he does for technology what magical realists did for the supernatural ... Unlike many dystopian novels, Super Sad True Love Story doesn\'t reverberate with a political call to action. Where its bullhorn might be, we find just vintage Soviet despair.
Dave Eggers
PanThe AtlanticEveryone is so credulous and naive about The Circle, including Holland herself. I've never encountered anyone who is so dumb and unthinking about social media as roughly all the characters in this book. Middle schoolers tend to have a more nuanced understanding of ‘openness’ and ‘transparency’ on the Internet than Eggers' characters … His fundamental conceit is that people don't know or understand the tradeoffs they're making with social media. But the existence and popularity of all these other networks argues otherwise … Eggers took on these complex, difficult technologies, which we spend a lot of time thinking about, but refused to reckon with their real seductiveness.
