This is a “children’s” book that I would never, ever recommend to any child. Written as a companion piece to Uncle Stevie’s The Waste Lands, this is an illustrated version of the story that Jake Chambers buys at The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind from Calvin Tower. He had it when he was a boy. So did Susannah Dean. And so did Eddie Dean. And none of them liked it. They all wondered if the illustrations of Charlie and Engineer Bob showed a happy train […]
The Circle – delving into a not-so-much-dystopian future?
This one is tricky, I’ve actually read the first six chapters three times and the book in its entirety twice – the first time I tried; I just couldn’t connect, the second; I devoured the text so fast I felt like I missed something and the third time I found myself coming up with alternative theories and twisted plot lines. Eggers protagonist is Mae, a young woman who lands a job at The Circle, one of the world’s most influential internet companies – think Google, […]