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Summary: Attention All Shoppers
Review: Like 1984, Feed is in the not so distant future where everyone has the "feed" implanted in their brains at a young age. The feed is like an internet connection in your head always on, gathering information about what you like and advertising specifically to you. You can "chat" with your friends without speaking, watch TV. while in School™, and take vacations on the moon. Titus, a typical materialistic teen meets home schooled Violet, who thinks for herself, tries to buck the system, and whose feed is malfunctioning and killing her. The story gives glimpses into the larger world of the teens, the sores on their bodies made cool by stars from the feed environmental disasters, political uprising, but mainly focuses on the purchasing and partying of the teens in the group... sound familiar? The author uses his own slang: "unit" for dude, "meg" for mega cool and peppers sentences with "like" which is like, soooo annoying it causes you to notice it in your own speech. If you can get through the first two chapters and get used to the lingo you will love this book and it will scare the pants off you with its foreshadowing.
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Summary: Wonderfull
Review: M.T. Anderson should be considered the next Vonnegut. Using biting satire, Anderson exposes a dark underneath of society. Anderson takes the idea of the internet that has been hardwired to the brain with all of the pop up ads to buy buy buy and the removal of the natural thinking of young adults. The book is told from the point of Titus, a teenager. The book is written as teens talk. This can be aggravating to older readers, but it is still quite effective toward younger readers who are the target audience. Titus believes his world of buying and constant fashion change is how the whole world is living. The book mentions other troubles throughout, such as body lesions that everybody is developing and riots in other parts of the country, but they are either ignored or turned into a fashion statement themselves. The story turns on the fact Titus meets, Violet, a young lady that has her feed malfunction and he has to deal with the fallout of the feed failure. He is unprepared to deal with the real life situation and worse, Violet is the consience of the book. She points out there are troubles on the planet and everybody is ignoring them. Titus has troubles dealing with Violet and his parents react by buying him a new car instead of helping him deal with the troubles, reminds me of most of my friends parents growing up hmmm...
M.T. Anderson is brilliant with this book because it works on two parts. First: it is a story about the relationship of a young man and the girl from the wrong side of the tracks and the social interaction between them. Second: the world is not doing well and the rest of the beautiful people ignore the obvious, not because they don't care, but because they have been conditioned not to know any better. Titus reminds me of the main character from 'THX1138', a drone in a society that stamps out individuality. He starts to realize that something is wrong, but can't quite figure out what it is. It is this second part that is so important. The Earth in trouble has been given the backburner, but it is really the main issue for the book. Anderson has pulled off quite a feat here. The feed and the Earth's collapse is what the reader will eventually remember, not the characters. This book is important! Highly Recommended.
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Summary: the feed
Review: This book is a very good. It is an easy read targeted to older teens. This book although science fiction,makes many readers understand that this fictional may become the history of our future.
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Summary: A high-school English teacher
Review: This is one of those books that gets under your skin. At the beginning of the story, I had the same complaints as many other reviewers about the shallowness of the characters and the "dumbed down" language. At the same time, I found the book impossible to put down in spite of these annoyances. Since other reviewers have summarized the story to death, I'll refrain from that and just say that it is one of those books that makes you uncomfortable as you read it. Does it have the staying power as works such as "1984" and "Farenheit 451"? That I can't say, but I do feel that it definitely deserves its place in high school literature classes in spite of its language. No, it didn't give me a warm-fuzzy feeling when I read it, but truly thought-provoking books rarely do.
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