More terrifying than The Circle, with a richer, darker, more satirical humor than its predecessor.
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Matt Stine rated The last great game: 5 stars
The last great game by Gene Wojciechowski
"A sports book about the greatest college basketball game ever played"--
Matt Stine rated The Family Chao: 4 stars
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy …
Matt Stine rated Parable of the Talents: 5 stars
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #2)
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous …
Matt Stine rated Parable of the Sower: 5 stars
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
…Matt Stine rated Stars, Like Dust: 4 stars
Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room …
Matt Stine rated Building a Second Brain: 5 stars
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better …
Matt Stine reviewed The Every by Dave Eggers
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'
5 stars
Matt Stine reviewed The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. The novel …
Review of 'The Circle' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This was quite possibly the creepiest book I've ever read. 1984 was scarily prescient, but The Circle, so heavily based on technologies that are quite honestly either real today or just on the cusp or being real, combined with our steady migration of our lives into the digital, takes the fear of what could happen to a whole new level. The idea of being watched 24/7 is creepy enough. The idea of much of the world's population believing they have an inalienable right to do so? Terrifying.
This was quite possibly the creepiest book I've ever read. 1984 was scarily prescient, but The Circle, so heavily based on technologies that are quite honestly either real today or just on the cusp or being real, combined with our steady migration of our lives into the digital, takes the fear of what could happen to a whole new level. The idea of being watched 24/7 is creepy enough. The idea of much of the world's population believing they have an inalienable right to do so? Terrifying.
Matt Stine rated How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: 5 stars
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That’s where Charles …
Matt Stine reviewed Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Review of 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
So much to enjoy in this one. Rarely do I feel like I get to know as many characters deeply as I do in CCL. Subplots that begin in one character's arc payoff beautifully in another character's arc. While CCL certainly may not be for everyone, I found it difficult to put down!
So much to enjoy in this one. Rarely do I feel like I get to know as many characters deeply as I do in CCL. Subplots that begin in one character's arc payoff beautifully in another character's arc. While CCL certainly may not be for everyone, I found it difficult to put down!
Matt Stine rated Interior Chinatown: 5 stars
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets …
Matt Stine rated Upgrade: 5 stars
Upgrade by Blake Crouch OG
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just …
Matt Stine rated The Last Graduate: 5 stars
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her …