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The Every

The electrifying follow up to Sunday Times bestseller The Circle

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The Every

By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle

When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every.

Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?

Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.

Praise for the The Circle:
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times

'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world . . . Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post
'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro

'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

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Critic Reviews

Eggers proposes an uncanny world, on the border between the impossible-to-imagine and the already-in-play. Every reader is implicated. We are all members of that passive army willing to trade freedom for convenience. As digital culture blossomed, people wondered if machines could be made to think like people. The more compelling question is the one Eggers poses in The Every: Are people content to become machines?
Hilarious and horrifying and idealistic. An unusual combination in a novel, or in anything else, really, but here the necessary result of a powerful writer taking on much of what matters most to our future
Sparkles with provocative ideas
Once a decade a book like The Every advances the frontier of literary excellence: a book that reflects our culture. Predicts our future. Worm-holes into our subconscious. Delivers artful and complex characters, metaphor, ideas, narrative. Provides percussive movements of levity, gravity, grace, suspense, hilarity."
[This is a] remarkable piece of satire, riven as it is with horribly plausible ideas and horribly good jokes. It's one thing to sound a warning about how we are on a slippery slope to a kind of consumerist fascism where we exchange liberty for convenience. What Eggers does so well is make The Every alluring as well as alarming . . . Eight years after The Circle was published, there is all too little that rings false about its predictions about social media. If the same is true of The Every, we are in even more trouble than we thought we were.
An entertainingly horrifying portrait of a civilisation meekly enslaving itself to the power of the app
Eggers does us a service in underlining the sinister directions tech is taking... In its timing, The Every is right on the cryptocurrency
The plot is prescient and spookily plausible, and Eggers is always entertainingly spot on in his targets
Gulpable fictive entertainment . . . Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision
You read it and think: yes, this is set in the future but it is actually going on here and now. It is an urgent and necessary book. It's also fun. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar
All stars
Most relevant
Having read THE CIRCLE, which I loved, I pre-ordered THE EVERY. This novel was scary in that the potential it occurring in real life is possible. It was well written and thought provoking. Every good idea had positives but even more negatives. Human nature to exploit, combined with lack of privacy is a disastrous mix. It led to a premise where the very act of thinking became scary. That one thought or innocent look could destroy your life.

This book took longer to read, as it was written in a style that found me having to stop and think more. Some aspects of THE EVERY was not written on an interesting way. The audiobook helped here as the narrator was very engaging. The plot twist at the end is well worth the read.

Dave Eggers states that this book would not be available on AMAZON, however this is not truthful. The ebook is available on AMAZON and the audiobook is available on AUDIBLE, an AMAZON subsidiary. If he really stood by his views about AMAZON they wouldn't be available through here.

Scary premise

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Loved this sequel to The Circle and found it darkly entertaining, if you enjoy laughing about where we’re headed. The Audible performance was great although felt slightly stilted after every ‘She said…’ which hilariously made me think this was edited and narrated by AI. Chase it up with a rewatch of ‘Network’ for an extra kick in the guts.

The future we deserve

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This is a great story- smart, cheeky, funny- and the narration makes sing. A story for the future

Fun and super smart

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Eggers is still a genius writer and story teller. Ostensibly futurist, Eggers pulls at the threads of our current world to take them only a few extra steps to a logical conclusion. Well developed characters, vivid, and perfectly paced.

Scarily believable

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