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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely!  Little Bee is the main one that comes to mind.

Also, I just read The Circle, by Dave Eggars, and I think it will stick with me, too.  Very fast and fun read on the surface.  But it raises some disturbing issues with haunting implications.  [/quote]

I WISH the circle could have been more nuanced. I felt like it did raise issues, but with such a blunt touch that it almost negated the importance of them. It was way too black and white.[/quote]

Yes, I agree.  I'm a huge fan of Dave Eggars, and on some level I was actually surprised by his lack of finesse.

But on another level, it worked for me given the specific book.  The tone was so light.  The main character so immature.  The speeches so preachy.  Pieces of the plot so facile.  If it were another author, I'd probably just take all that at face value and write it off as poorly written to some degree.  But I give DE a lot more credit than that.  Perhaps too much, but I took those qualities of the book as another facet of his point that it's such a quick, easy and predictable slide to there from where we are now.  Maybe too meta?  Either way, it made me think a lot about my own choices as well as our collective choices.  [/quote]

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