The Circle

· Penguin UK
3.9
179 reviews
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512
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega


THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet

'Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail

'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times

'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post


When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...

'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair

'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro

'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

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3.9
179 reviews
Rory Riot
7 December 2014
Quite predicable, don't know why the critics claim it to be fast and thrilling, so many parts of the book lead down a path that didn't go anywhere. Was pretty disappointed considering the hype.
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Smita Mujumdar
9 March 2017
Not the best writing but crucial reading. Highly reminiscent of Black Mirror - blurring the lines between present and futuristic. Much needed commentary on social media giants, privacy, and surveillance and how willingly we give ourselves away on the Internet.
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Philipp Klimpke
10 January 2015
The Circle show's a world that could be ours. The view this Book gives on subjects as anonymity and transparency is very interesting. Sometimes the personal feelings come to short on my opinion and the end is quite sudden. All in all it is however a brilliant Book well worth reading.
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About the author

Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger.

He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, a book series that illuminates human rights crises through oral history.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter. His work has been translated into forty- two languages.

www.Internationalcongressofyouthvoices.org
www.826valencia.org
www.scholarmatch.org
www.voiceofwitness.org
www.valentinoachakdeng.org
www.mcsweeneys.net
www.daveeggers.net

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