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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: Fictional science or future prediction?
Review: M. T. Anderson has written a refreshing science fiction novel in a genre that has recently relied largely on fantasy and far less on science. He has created a not-to-distant future world where everything is accessed via a "feed" that is implanted directly into the brain. An internalized internet, the feed even allows for "chatting" so there is little need to speak if one chooses not to and true reading is nearly obsolete. While the narrator, Titus, lives in a world that is still identifiable to those of us in the 21st century - school (although it is trademarked), parties, music, driving, dancing, and drinking - there are also unfamiliar and extreme aspects like an electronic drug substitute, standardized lingo, disposable tables, and extreme consumerism. Even this tightly controlled future however, is peppered with resisters, and Titus' own girlfriend suffers horribly from her feed when it malfunctions due to a combination of having it implanted late in life (when she was 7) and being hit by a "hacker". Perhaps because it is a young adult novel, Anderson just barely skims the surface of the economic, political and environmental tensions of the feed and its consumer culture. He does not, however, wimp out in building believable, dimensional characters and relationships. Anderson has created an intriguing read about a world that is so close you may be reading about the first "feed" in the newspaper tomorrow.
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Summary: A future not too far from the present.
Review: M.T. Anderson has created a dystopian future on par with Huxley's Brave New World. The book imagines a future that under the surface is not too far from what is going on today. It's a great commentary on consumer culture, and a slightly scary view of where we could be headed. It gives you a lot to think about. I'm a kid's bookseller and I do not hesitate to reccomend this book. I'm a geek for M. T. Anderson. He's an amazingly versatile writer who has become one of my favorites.
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Summary: Moving, terrifying and hilarious
Review: MT Anderson's "Feed" is the best novel I have read so far this year - "The Catcher in the Rye" crossed with "Brave New World". Titus and his authentically horrible buddies are the way the world is going. It is a vision of hell. The world of Feed is only one remove from our own; what seem like exaggerations at first are really too close for comfort to the way we live now. Anderson presents this nightmare society with devastating clarity, so that you can't help but see its seeds as you look around you today. Please don't be put off by the (very plausible) futuristic slang or the inarticulate dialogue - the speech of people who have forgotten how or why to read, and who have no need of learning. Every so often Anderson - in the voice of Titus - produces an astonishing image, a piece of poetry in the midst of it all. His satires on advertising, fashion and corporate youth-speak hit exactly the right note. Inside the satire is a love story - a tragedy - and like all the best tragedies, the plot has a wounding inevitability to it. I don't agree with the reviews who find the ending unsatisfying. It's the only possible ending because this is a novel about the horror of entropy: that things, and people, fall apart, gradually, unstoppably. There's the grain of hope that caring enough can hold back the tide, if only it is not too late. But perhaps, by the time Anderson's world comes to be, it already will be. Did I forget to mention it's also very funny? Well, it's also very funny, and also very moving. Like the Feed, this book sticks in your head and won't let you alone. Everyone should read it.
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Summary: Consumerism as it is
Review: Reading this work shed some light on the way popular culture is heading. Titus, the narrator, shares his experiences in first-person--complete with the language today's young generation uses. His world is strongly influenced by the feed, a neural-based network of ads and other applications traditionally associated with the Internet. Told in a cynical and indifferent way so common with today's youth, Feed reveals the dangers of living a shallow life centered around the individual. The result is a sense of suspicion as technology further enables companies to solicit their wares or services. I recommend this reading to high school students everywhere.
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Summary: A scary insight into the world of mind control!
Review: Sometime in the future, young boy named Titus lives in a world where every person is controlled by a "feed." Propaganda is fed through this feed to control the population's thoughts, opinions, and shopping habits. Titus meets a girl named Violet who helps him realize the commercialistic power of this feed. A hacker is one of the big challenges that arises. When the hacker strikes, Violet deteriorates. Through Violet, Titus learns of the power of this feed and realizes how it affects his wants and desires. This book has some profanity, however, it is used in a way to highlight the affect of a loss of emotion can have on a person. Even though the book takes the issue of corporate greed and consumerism to its extreme, it does give the reader an understanding of how thoughts and habits can be altered through advertising influence.
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Summary: Feed by MT Anderson
Review: The book Feed is written by MT Anderson and it is geared towards high school aged people. It contains a LOT of swearing. It also cantains a lot of confusing language, but you'll eventually catch on. This book is strongly in the genre of Science Fiction.
This book was good because it related to how people act. Like when Violet and Titus start going out everyone asks "are you going out?" It also puts teenage life into perspective and it teaches about loss and why you shouldn't be sucked into new trends.
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Summary: Amazon Feed review
Review: The book feed was an inspiring novel about a boy named Titus. This book takes place in the future where people have hover cars, their own suns, and trips to every other planet in our solar system. The people live in their own bubbles and the sky is painted blue. This particular story begins with Titus and a group of his friends on their way to another "null" trip to the moon. On their little adventure, the group comes across a girl named Violet. Violet and the rest of the gang become friends and start to hang out. On their little excursion to the moon, something happens that would change these friends, their friend ships, and their lives forever.
I liked how, in the novel, Feed, the main characters resist what controls them, a chip in their brain, the Feed. I liked the concept of fighting for your feelings and thoughts. I enjoyed how the characters stayed mostly together through thick and thin and that they thought that no matter what, they would always be friends. The beginning of this book just makes you want to read on and it is just a wonderful book.
My dislikes in this book were that there was overall too much cussing and that the ending was so sad. It was a very sad ending and that displeased me. It was not the ending that I thought that it would be. Lots of tears in the last 50 pages of the book. The cussing was very intense throughout the book. If I were not capable of coping with bad words, then I would put the book sown and go find another book. But if you are okay with that kind of stuff, then I think that you should defiantly read the book.
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Summary: Big Bad Corporations in Consumerism Dystopia
Review: The topic of this book is great - consumerism and how Americans are sold copious nonessentials through propaganda, destroying our minds and our environment in the process. The audio version is very well done, with strong reading and excellent advertisements added in throughout to give the true effect. I only with Anderson had told the story in about 100 fewer pages because it makes the same point over and over unnecessarily. Also, Anderson tries to make the point of the degradation of American intelligence through technology by making the main characters speak as if they were surfer dudes. This gets extremely annoying! With some revamping, this book would be 5 stars. Still, even with its faults, it's worth a read or listen for the message. Hopefully, the message is not lost on today's teens who are the likely readers.
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Summary: DONT READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: 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 understand what was happening, or being said because of it. Not to mention that the author was question mark happy and seemed to put them everywhere and in places that made no sense whatsoever. The book had great potential, but frankly I have no idea how in the world it got published. I would have put 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.
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