Dave Eggers
Hardcover | Pages: 493 pages Rating: 3.43 | 176047 Users | 22687 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Circle |
| ISBN: | 0385351399 (ISBN13: 9780385351393) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mae Holland, Annie Allerton, Francis Garaventa, Kaden (The Circle), Eamon Bailey, Tom Stenton, Mercer Medeiros |
| Setting: | California(United States) United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2014), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2015), Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuurprijs Nominee (2014), Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2014) |
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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge. (front flap)Point Containing Books The Circle
| Title | : | The Circle |
| Author | : | Dave Eggers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 493 pages |
| Published | : | October 8th 2013 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
Rating Containing Books The Circle
Ratings: 3.43 From 176047 Users | 22687 ReviewsNotice Containing Books The Circle
A possible present day dystopian novel involving a young girl, Mae, as the protagonist who starts in a dead end job, is divorced, has two parents, one of which is not well, and is also separated from her very best friend Annie. Annie works for the 'Circle', the number one internet management company in the world. When Mae is hired at the 'Circle' with the help of her friend Annie, life-changing experiences lead her into a different world, a world we could all envision ourselves in someday.MyThis comment actually made me laugh out loud cause it is just way to precise and describes literally everything annoying about this book, i got so
"...what if we all behaved as if we were being watched? It would lead to a more moral way of life. Who would do something unethical or immoral or illegal if they were being watched?" A significant majority of our planet's residents has access to the Web. This has been the way for decades now. We were provided with a great instrument in the everlasting search for knowledge. Everything is there for us to grasp. By pushing a button, a key in the keyboard, by touching a screen, knowledge that would
A 491 page soap box. Here's what's wrong with it, in no particular order:(1) Not offering anything new to the conversation. I imagine I will not be the only fan of dystopian literature who will be bored and feel this is retreading old territory already covered in books written long before the age of the internet. As a human being living in a first world country, the comparisons one can draw between real-life companies and the Circle are second nature: Facebook's ever-changing privacy policies,
Having read the reviews by critics stumbling over each other to praise how "edgy" and "prophetic" this book was, I borrowed it from the library (if I'd paid the ridiculous $17 for this book, I probably would have sat down and cried).The only thing good about this book is David Eggers writing ability. He's clearly an extremely skilled writer and it's a credit to him that I managed to finish this to the end. He could write about going to the bank and make it readable and interesting (and would
Facebook Bad. Twitter Bad.Oh wait, we all know that, that's why we're drawn to its dark, dark powers. We love to be frightened by a totalitarian regime based on widespread shaming and a few likes.Seriously, this book has some really great prose going on, imminently readable, with wonderful characters and a very good progression of plot... kinda like sitting in the cold water as a pot starts heating up. We see all the great stuff that this new omnipresent social media/accounting has brought to
Update: The movie opens April 28th- in my area - with Tom Hanks. Regardless - what people rated this book ---1 star or 5 star. It makes for an engaging discussion. Yesterday Paul and I saw the movie trailer just BEFORE watching the YouTube update of the Apple Campus being built here in Silicon Valley... Steve Job's last creative design before he died. The 'Kingdom' ... haha in the ROUND off freeway 280 in Cupertino is like NOTHING I've ever seen built in the Bay Area in my lifetime. I loved this
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