The Circle

The Circle

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 24/04/2014
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The Circle
The Circle
The Circle is a fantastic and disturbing book. All through this book Eggers looks at out dependency on the internet, making it worryingly clear that we liv... READ MORE
Lorna at Dorking
The Circle
the new nightmare
A frightening precursor to 1984, this Orwellian tale is both horrifying and mesmerising. Mae, after bagging a dream job at The Circle, becomes an ambassado... READ MORE
Catriona at Waterstones Head Office
The Circle
A witty and satirical take on social networking.
The Circle is the world’s biggest social network. Part Google, part Facebook and all encompassing, it’s a seemingly benevolent force that everybody is sign... READ MORE
Pete Renton at Nottingham
The Circle
The shape of things to come?
Young professional Mae Holland is ambitious, a bit naïve and thinks her dreams have come true when she lands a job with the Circle, a super-trendy social m... READ MORE
Claudia  Sunderhauf

Synopsis

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 ... Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega.
'Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted' -*Daily Mail*
'Prescient, important and enjoyable ...a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' - *Guardian*
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' - *Sunday Times*

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241146507
  • Number of pages: 512
  • Weight: 405g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm

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The Circle
Don't bother.
Dull as dishwasher. Pages of reading about her doing e-mails. Like reading about work. Story was simplistic and predictable. Would have made a good read fo... READ MORE
Tracey Robertson