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.
发表于2024-12-22
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戴夫·埃格斯(Dave Eggers)的新小说是反映当今时代的一则寓言?对硅谷及其侵犯隐私的科技公司的一记透彻羞辱? 还是说他失诸正鹄,炮制出一部假模假样的乏味小说,既无法为书中角色注入人性,也未能把握其主题? 埃格斯备受期待的小说《圆圈》(The Circle)本周二开始发售,书评...
评分Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, arrives for her first day of work at a company called the Circle. She marvels at the beautiful campus, the fountain, the tennis and volleyball courts, the squeals of children from the day care center “weaving like water.” ...
评分Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, arrives for her first day of work at a company called the Circle. She marvels at the beautiful campus, the fountain, the tennis and volleyball courts, the squeals of children from the day care center “weaving like water.” ...
评分全程逻辑混乱(可能作者设定的是全地球人都是傻子),为了讽刺而讽刺,莫名其妙的情感线(霸道总裁爱上玛丽苏的熟悉狗血味)以及简直有恶意卖肉的嫌疑(所以女主疯狂哗——的意义在哪里) 所以我们学校到底是为了什么这本书做阅读材料???这简直不如the giver的一半(大声bb ...
评分Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, arrives for her first day of work at a company called the Circle. She marvels at the beautiful campus, the fountain, the tennis and volleyball courts, the squeals of children from the day care center “weaving like water.” ...
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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.
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
评分我们不是已经在过这种生活了吗?
评分網絡時代反烏托邦。老師好愛這本書啊強推得不行hhh
评分作者试图用暮光之城的水平写1984……
评分一个超级fancy得如同想象中的IT公司,大数据概念下逐渐消失的个人隐私,最终让主人公彻底远离毫无隐私可言的网络世界
The Circle 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书