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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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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

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
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An intriguing story about our life now and in a possible near future. Both hilarious and alarming. Very well performed

Very well and entertainingly read

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The story line was quite compelling, although I found the narration a bit distracting. This was especially true in the distinctive 'he said,' and 'she said' throughout.

interesting if disturbing satire

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This offering by Dave Eggers is as sinister as The Circle was. In light of the present human made chaos on earth, this book is like a stab to to bleed us out. It's frightening and quite shocking that some people feel that they know what others want. I was chargrined to be honest. Dion Graham's narration made it palatable. I fell that it is dystopian and too close to home.

Dystopian and too Close to Home

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Dion Graham narrates thought with delight! His fast talking, tongue in cheek style turns what might be considered a dark future into a funny tale on a post-secret world.

I really enjoyed the Circle so picked this up with ease but found it strikingly different and in many ways far more prophetic. By the end I wanted to deleted all of my social media accounts but felt bad about doing so.

Clever, thought provoking and memorable!

The Dystopia is here and it’s hilarious

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The Circle was great. This is even better. Watch as is all comes true! So thought provoking, it is quite unsettling. Seeing technology filter into our lives, it won't be long before we see many of these fictional ideas running our lives.

beware!

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