The Circle

书名：The Circle
作者：DaveEggers
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ISBN：9780385351393
出版社：Knopf
出版时间：2013-10-8
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：504
豆瓣评分： 7.0

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including "Zeitoun," a nonfiction account a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and "What Is the What," a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine ("The Believer"), and "Wholphin," a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

书友短评：

@ Shuyang Meh @ suyanz 非常好看。这位大姐是彻底疯了。。建议拍成电影可以用hunger games的原版人马。 @ Doyle Frenger 近期比较不错的反乌托邦作品。故事结构其实和1984以及其他的反乌托邦很像 但是加入了现代互联网和信息分享 所以显得很真实。结局是和1984一样的 但是显得浅薄了 如果能再深入一点就好了 比如Annie这个角色就不是很深入 @ Tony Yet 作者的文筆非常棒，故事所講述的關於透明與隱私之間的角力的問題更是引人深思，可以作爲互聯網萬能論者的一劑解藥 @ Denni 与真实世界太接近的软科幻小说，就不好看了 @ 是但求其啦 啊这English b老师让看的，io也考了?（有些部分尺度还挺emmm，上课literature circle讨论起来就哈哈哈哈? @ 嘿了个嘿喲个嘿 中途弃了，大概是因为1). 距离作者写这本书已经快十年了，书中的很多“科幻”都已经变成了real life, 就不再吸引人了；2）. 可能我真的不适合用有声书听科幻小说？觉得情节进展慢而描述过多，要是拍成电影节奏感大概会好很多… @ Ceci 有点啰嗦 @ Denni 与真实世界太接近的软科幻小说，就不好看了 @ [已注销] predictable trend following technological dystopian novel that does nothing but repeating the problems that we are all very aware of without suggesting any solution.

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