I’m going to be completely honest, I never read The Circle by Dave Eggers. I tried so hard to read it and got through
about 20 pages. Once I saw on the syllabus
that this class did not need any required texts, I decided to not continue
reading the text. The rest of this blog
post is going to be based off what my friends have told me off the book and the
article I had to read for this week’s blog post.
First off, what in the world is a chutzpah? I may be a
shiksa, and know it is a synonym for audacity, but I had no idea what the
author, Jessica Winter meant by including it.
Winter writes; “Steve Jobs drank chutzpah smoothies each morning and
gargled chutzpah at bedtime.” Honey, are you really Jewish or are you just some
goyim? Okay, back to The Circle let’s
not get too off tangent now.
Before reading this article, I never knew that The Circle was a satire. Everyone told me the book was slow and
predicable. The article on the other
hand said it fast-moving book, which makes me wonder; Do different generations determine
the speed of a book differently? Also, found that it was interesting that
Eggers did no research to write this book, he just straight up wrote it. Pretty cool if you ask me though, I’d read it
if I had time now.
I didn't read the book either, but I'm kind of glad. I'm not going to waste my time on a book that I heard sucks. I mean it's pretty cool that he didn't do research but it makes you think why write a book about something you have no knowledge on.
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