The Circle by Dave Eggers [Used]
Paperback
Booksellers note: WHEW, BUDDY this book horrified me. I think about it all the time, and it makes me want to bury all of my technology in the backyard. I won’t, I’ll keep finding great books for y’all… but… wow, this one is a doozy. The dark humor reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut.
"Ripped from recent headlines about privacy, technology and social media . . . A book that begins as a lighthearted cautionary tale grows into a claustrophobic portrait of relentless effort to achieve the culmination of 'closing the Circle.'"
—CNN
Paperback
Booksellers note: WHEW, BUDDY this book horrified me. I think about it all the time, and it makes me want to bury all of my technology in the backyard. I won’t, I’ll keep finding great books for y’all… but… wow, this one is a doozy. The dark humor reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut.
"Ripped from recent headlines about privacy, technology and social media . . . A book that begins as a lighthearted cautionary tale grows into a claustrophobic portrait of relentless effort to achieve the culmination of 'closing the Circle.'"
—CNN
Paperback
Booksellers note: WHEW, BUDDY this book horrified me. I think about it all the time, and it makes me want to bury all of my technology in the backyard. I won’t, I’ll keep finding great books for y’all… but… wow, this one is a doozy. The dark humor reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut.
"Ripped from recent headlines about privacy, technology and social media . . . A book that begins as a lighthearted cautionary tale grows into a claustrophobic portrait of relentless effort to achieve the culmination of 'closing the Circle.'"
—CNN
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.
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | Thrillers | Technological | Dystopian