The Circle

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.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Dave Eggers

页数:504

出版时间:2013-10-8

价格:USD 16.77

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780385351393

图书标签:小说科幻美国网络英文原著外国文学社会英文读物

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.

读后感

读故事的过程确实会引发思考。从故事一开始就隐隐觉得不对劲儿——我大概也是属于对完全的透明与公开的网络人生不能接受的人吧——越往下看越有一种holy shit的感觉，心想这怎么可能，大家都疯了吗？直到有一天忽然意识到最近自己也是在网上看vlog看得不亦乐乎的呀。于是就一直...  

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.” ...  

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.” ...  

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 ...

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 ...

用户评价

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。

美国apolcalypstic末世小说类，有点1984的感觉，说了网络大数据走向极端的一种情况。主题贴近现实，可以让读者思考网络、隐私、自由，权利等问题。只是末世小说总让人感觉没有新意。时不时作者还透露一下自己的政治倾向，几处谈到中国其实都不怎么友好。

Meh

Mae is a bitch.

作者试图用暮光之城的水平写1984……