The Circle

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Call Number: Fiction, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Eggers, Dave
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Eggers, Dave	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Eggers, Dave	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Not Eggers' Best submitted by monkk on July 8, 2014, 8:02pm ... but it's still a decent read about a woman who lands a "great" job in a very powerful social media company that turns strange and a little scary pretty quickly. The story didn't move along as quickly as I would have liked and it felt a bit repetitive. Though if you are an Eggars fan, I'd say give it a shot.

Dark submitted by sauerr on June 28, 2016, 6:39pm This book is insightful. It gives an interesting take through what the future might be like. It is a great book for a group to talk about and will cause many arguments. However it is sort of dark.

Book Club Pick submitted by Judeyblu on August 23, 2016, 7:06am In a world where we are obsessed with 'Likes', this is a disturbing book.
When all of life is played out in public, what do we have left?
I wonder if, had this been written in 2016, Pokemon Go! would have found its way into the book?

Fine submitted by Justin Shim on July 21, 2017, 7:40pm The book itself was a good read, however, the story felt as if it repeated quite a bit, with not a whole lot of direction to where the story was going. No big plot twist and changes really in the story, though it did have a good moral.

circle submitted by smr on August 8, 2022, 3:57pm circle