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- ISBN13: 9780763622596
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Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage like in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.
For Titus and his friends, it ongoing out like any ordinary trip to the moon – a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Reflect Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a gorgeous, brainy teenage girl who has chose to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has made a not-so-courageous new world — and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.Amazon.com Review
This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people’s brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment–even on trips to Mars and the moon–and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.
Anderson gives us this world through the voice of a boy who, like everyone around him, is nearly completely inarticulate, whose vocabulary, in a dead-on parody of the worst teenspeak, depends heavily on three words: “like,” “thing,” and the second most common English obscenity. He’s even made this vapid kid a bit sympathetic, as a product of his society who dimly knows something is missing in his head. The details are bitterly amusing–the idiotic but wildly well loved sitcom called “Oh? Wow! Thing!”, the girls who have to retire to the ladies room a couple of times an evening because hairstyles have changed, the hideous lesions on everyone that are not only accepted, but turned into a fashion statement. And the essential awfulness is that when we finally meet the boy’s parents, they are just as inarticulate and empty-headed as he is, and their solution to their son’s problem is to buy him an expensive car.
Although there is a danger that at first teens may see the thought of brain-computers as cool, ultimately they will admit this as a fascinating novel that says something vital about their world. (Ages 14 and older) –Patty Campbell
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This book by far was the worst book I have ever read! The grammar in the book was horrendous! Half the time I couldn’t know what was happening, or being said because of it. Not to mention that the leader was question mark pleased and seemed to place them everywhere and in places that made no sense whatsoever. The book had fantastic potential, but frankly I have no thought how in the world it got published. I would have place down a zero star, or a half but they didn’t have that as an option. The point that I’m feebly trying to make is don’t waste your time reading this book, there are far superior books out there.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Feed by M.T. Anderson is a very weird book. The book is set far into the future, some place on planet. The main character of the book is a teenage boy named Titus. Titus and most of the people in the solar system are controlled by a contrivance called a feed. The feed controls most of Titus’s actions and he can barely reflect for himself with the feed. But that all changes when Titus meets a girl named Violet, who opens his eyes to the right purpose of the feed. Together Titus and Violet try to free themselves from the feed.
I must say that Feed is not one of my favorite books but there were aspects of the book that were done well. M.T. Anderson made a very original plot with the concept of the feed. That was a very imaginative thought for a book and because of that, it was not a predictable book. Anderson also made very appealing characters, who changed as the tale unfolded. I also like how Anderson dealt with the prospect of humans destroying themselves by destroying the planet and destroying their ability to reflect. Destroying the planet is a real threat. It could be a reality if we don’t do something about it now. These are some of the concepts that Anderson did well.
In Feed there are certainly some things that I didn’t like, such as Anderson’s writing style. It was a nontraditional style of writing. I establish it chunky and a small weird. I also thought this book was hard to read. It wasn’t very exiting and it did not keep me interested. I reflect that Anderson could have written this book so that it captured the reader more. The tale was simple to follow but there were tiny parts that needed to be clarified. For example, the characters said “unit” repeatedly through the tale and I never determined what it meant. Overall I didn’t like Feed very much, but if it sounds appealing to you, then go yet to be and read it because it is a very “different” book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Dude, this book really sucks. It’s so stupid. I don’t know what kind of dumb unit would want to read it.
The above remark gives an thought of what reading this book is like. I ongoing listening to it, and I was so bothered by the juvenile language, I skipped yet to be to see if it got better. It didn’t. I also skipped to a different disc, and it only got worse. I know that the writing was to make the main character who is talking in first person sound more authentic, like the way a young adult would sound, but it was way overboard. I felt like I was on the bus in 8th grade again with all the kids swearing and talking about stuff because they thought it made them sound cool. Nobody, not even a young adult, talks that way and thinks that way all of the time.
Based on the additional positive reviews, I imagine the storyline of the book is reasonably excellent, but I couldn’t get over the terrible language to get that far. I’m writing this review, so that you know what you’re getting into before you read it. I’m rather disappointed. This book is going back to the library tomorrow.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
eh. it was alright… but the problem with this book is that the main character doesn’t start to feel real or show emotions untill the last few pages of the book. when its tough to care for a character or at least find somehting to identify with its tough to delight in a book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
If you judge that the U.S. government is controlled by disreputable corporate interests, and that American corporations are despoiling the planet and turning us all into automatons, then this book is for you. At some point in the not too far future, the leader posits, we will have personal shoppers hardwired into our brains, and persons who don’t make the right shopping choices won’t get their chips fixed when they malfunction, consigning their bodies to nothingness. Things like public schools and clouds will be turned into private property, trademarked and owned by corporations. American firms will use up most available planet resources to maximize their profits and will reasonably properly be the focus of the world community’s rage (sound familiar?) Even if you don’t buy into the leader’s political views, this is still a excellent science fiction read, but the swear words on each page and the sex scenes make it less than optimal for any audience not more than high school.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5