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Loading... Feed (original 2002; edition 2008)by M. T. Anderson, David Aaron Baker (Reader)
Work detailsFeed by M.T. Anderson (2002)
4Q, 4P This was an interesting book. It took awhile for me to get into the language, or slang of it. The idea of having a feed in our brains that is largely controlled by advertising and big corporations is so scary to me. Unfortunately, it is too close to where we seem to be headed with technology. Anderson was certainly ahead of his time with this book. I would hope that we can use it as a manual for what NOT to become. (  ) jfeucht | May 13, 2013 |  5P, 4Q Perhaps most memorable about this book is the writing. There is a lot of diaglogue and slang, and while at first it made it hard to read, I very quickly started enjoying the style. I hope others will not let this hurdle stop them from reading what is really a great story. Feed is all about adolscence, subversion, the impact of technology on society. Each of these topics could give the story wide reaching appeal among teens. My favorite thing about this book was how the FEED would chop into the story unexpectedly. The first time I read it it was an auido book and so the commericials coming from the FEED were all the more intense. There was a lot of diversity among the characters, too. Violet's father and his uniqueness I found very interesting. Titus struggles with his allegience to different kinds of friends, and I thought that was particilarly realistic. Seeing a terrible vision of how technology can impact people's lives for the worse - that's something I'll always remember about this book. rocounsil | May 9, 2013 | My VOYA ratings: 5Q,4P An unflinching take on the future of our technology-obsessed world, full of slang and humor and sadness. This book made me reevaluate my distaste for science fiction. laureneve | May 9, 2013 | My VOYA: 5Q, 4P "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." Titus and his friends are products of the Feed: a never-ending stream of advertising and information implanted into their brains. During an ordinary trip to the Moon, Titus meets the smart, beautiful Violet. When a protester hacks their minds, the teens lose contact with the Feed and learn that there may be a better way to live. As unsettling and soul-scarring as Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Feed is one of those novels that will grow in your subconscious long after you've finished it. Titus is as self-absorbed as Holden Caulfield, but far less articulate. Titus's dystopia is much more Brave New World than 1984, where the affluent are lulled into lives of mindless consumption. Hairstyles change within hours, the oozing lesions everyone has developed become a fashion statement, and School is a trademark, not a place. Stray observations:
1  Erin_Boyington | May 9, 2013 | Q4 P4: Feed is a science fiction tale that is as believable as it is fantastic. Set on Earth, in it's lingering last days, we glimpse the life of an affluent group of teenagers feeding off an electronic chip (the FEED) that informs them, sells to them, entertains them and communicates between them. As frightening, and at times implausible, as this future seems, Anderson's characters, their relationships and the ever-present role of the data-mining computer-marketeer are quite imaginable. nhalsan | May 9, 2013 |
 Subversive, vigorously conceived, painfully situated at the juncture where funny crosses into tragic, ''Feed'' demonstrates that young-adult novels are alive and well and able to deliver a jolt. The fact that it is a finalist for the National Book Award is in itself a good sign.  FEED is laugh-out-loud funny in its satire, but at the same time it is absolutely terrifying.
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0763622591, Paperback)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 almost 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 funny--the idiotic but wildly popular 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 ultimate 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 idea of brain-computers as cool, ultimately they will recognize this as a fascinating novel that says something important about their world. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:44:37 -0500) In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. (summary from another edition) |
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