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The Circle

By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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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. 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...

©2013 Dave Eggers (P)2013 Random House Audio Suspense Thriller & Suspense Funny

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"Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted" ( Daily Mail)
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The high tech future is inevitable. With these advances also come great responsibility. Fascinating story.

The BEST narrator ever!!!

Eerily close to the future

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Very good book, good voice. My advice is to listen to it without reading too many reviews, or reading too much about it. read it by going in blind. there's such a thing as knowing too much... or is there, up to you.

Don't know too much

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The Circle is a thinly disguised critique of internet companies like Google and Apple and the adulation they inspire. However it is continually annoying to read because the main character Mae constantly fails to stand up for herself or exhibit any normal human reactions. Most of the other characters are obsessed by the concept of complete openness and no-one except for Mae's parents, her ex-boyfriend and one other main character value their privacy. Everyone else is like no-one you have ever met. Furthermore, the trolls that infest the internet don't seem to exist in this world. Customer service is consistently rated at over 95% and smiles outweigh frowns by a huge amount. Dave Eggers has created a world with a certain type of human in it to make a fairly sledgehammer point. Therefore he hasn't had to deal with the complexities of real humans. For that reason, I found the book ultimately unsatisfying. It is just too artificial.

People don't actually behave like this

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The story rings very true and not so much like fiction in today's world. It creates a framework for the achievement of the ultimate outcome, to condition all of the human civilisation into freely and unconditionally opting into life under the microscope. No privacy, no secrets, no hiding of oneself or one's thoughts. It goes to show how easily a few people could rule the many... not just in one meagre country... no, lets weave the world wide web... after all... sharing is caring... isn't it?

Great Story, close to home...

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Eggers vividly describes a world not too far from our own where there is no more privacy aka secrets under the guise of solving the world's problems. Very apt in light of recent big tech giant censorship of COVID dissent.

Comfortably horrendous vision of the future

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An enjoyable thought experiment on the extent of technology's involvement in our lives. Likeable characters and a setting that's just close enough to reality.

Thought provoking

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Reasonably interesting book, a contemporary dystopian exploration of similar themes to those in George Orwell’s 1984.
Narrator did an absolutely terrible Australian accent and it is very clear he’s never heard someone from Melbourne speak. A painful few minutes with that character, but otherwise pretty decent narration. Pacing matched the energy and intent of the source texts

Absolutely terrible Australian accent

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I could not stop listening. Had me hooked from the first page. My new favourite

Fantastic book. Perfect ending.

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I really enjoyed this book. It was a fast paced story with lots of twist and turns lots of parallels to real life and a gripping lesson. Thoroughly recommend

The shark 🦈

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This book scared me soooooo much. I’ve read it before, seen the sanitised movie, and now listened to it again, just to remind myself how precious my privacy is to me. It scares me to see parallels in existence already.
I hope all the kids of my gen read this and I hope even younger ones too.
I hope I never live to see this level of scrutiny of our lives…scary Shiite…

The best horror story EVER

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