The Circle Audiobook

Quotes

• “Eggers treats his material with admirable inventiveness and gusto…the language ripples and morphs…It’s an entertainment, but a challenging one.”

  — Margaret Atwood, New York Times bestselling author

• “I kept hooting in appalled recognition.”

  — Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author

• “It had me screaming with laughter, dry-mouthed with suspense and agog at its audacity. So wonderfully written, so ablaze with ideas and such pure fun.”

  — Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author

• “The crux of The Circle is that Big Brother is still haunting us…Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk and spare and efficient…When I finished The Circle I felt a heightened awareness of social media and the way it’s remaking our world into a living hell of constant and universal mutual observation.”

  — Time

• “A vivid, roaring dissent to the companies that have coaxed us to disgorge every thought and action onto the Web…Carries the potential to change how the world views its addicted, compliant thrall to all things digital. If you work in Silicon Valley, or just care about what goes on there, you need to pay attention.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “What fuels this novel is its thunderbolt of an idea: digital culture is suffocating us and, what’s more, is doing so under the duplicitous guise of widespread human beneficence…A powerful argument.”

  — Newsweek

• “The novel is part satire, part corporate thriller. But mostly it’s a cautionary tale about threats to privacy, freedom, and democracy.”

  — USA Today

• “You may find yourself so engrossed in Dave Eggers’ futuristic novel, The Circle, that you forget about Facebook entirely. And by the last pages, you may think twice before logging on again.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Using his fluent prose and instinctive storytelling gifts, Mr. Eggers does a nimble, and sometimes very funny, job of sending up technophiles’ naïveté, self-interest, and misguided idealism…Never less than entertaining…A fun and inventive read.”

  — New York Times

• “The Circle is funny in its skewering of Internet culture…that leaves us vulnerable to those who see that information—in the form of data, video feeds, or our own consumer desires—is power.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Ripped from recent headlines about privacy, technology and social media…A book that begins as a lighthearted cautionary tale grows into a claustrophobic portrait of relentless effort to achieve the culmination of ‘closing the Circle.’”

  — CNN

• “Entertaining…A sense of horror finally arrives near the end of the book, coming . . . through the power of Eggers’s writing…The final scene is chilling.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The social message of the novel is clear, but Eggers expertly weaves it into an elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the twenty-first century.”

  — Vanity Fair