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Dave Eggers: The Every (Paperback, 2021, Vintage)

A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, …

Review of 'The Every' on 'Goodreads'

This successor to the circle lost its way after a promising beginning. The never-ending society destroying apps became increasingly depressing, making the book hard to get through. I felt sorry for Delaney, who, despite her good intentions, was getting slowly boiled like the rest of society. Let's hope technology never gets this entangled in our lives, he wrote as he entered a review on one of the jungle's websites.

Chuck Palahniuk: Beautiful you (2014)

Beautiful You is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, released October 21, 2014. It is set …

Review of 'Beautiful you' on 'Goodreads'

A dystopian novel set in the near future where a lunatic Musk type seeks to control women and their purchasing behaviour through a huge range of super-addictive sex toys. Yes, it sounds mental and mostly is.

It romps along in typical Palahniuk style, and there's a twist at the end as usual. Read it in a few days.

I liked it, although it could have been better as it got stuck a lot of the time in explaining the sex very scientifically and when it wasn't scientific in description, it dropped into mad mysticism.