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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: Feed
Review: This book takes place in the very near future and takes us through a life with no thinking, only computers. The feed chip is part of your brain. This book is a love story, a horror story, and a story about trust.
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Summary: "Hole in the Head, Better Off Dead..."
Review: This is a complex little book, I must say. What else can you call a book that combines blatant anti-consumerism, realistic situations, and an apocalyptic story line?It is difficult to say precisely what this book is about. The style of storytelling does not really permit it. If pressed, I would say it is a novel of the end of a decadence, and a remarkably timely one, at that. Basically, everyone has these computers implanted in their heads at a very young age. The computers give you news updates, let you communicate with others, and, foremost in the lives of the main characters, allow you to watch shows and shop. But they computers have unnatural side effects. They cause loss of memory and mental functions, such as creativity and the ability to use metaphors. Also, they cause lesions to appear on the skin of the user, which gradually grow larger. The use of a sort of futuristic, post-modern slang is very effective. The use of the term "unit" instead of "man," for example. This is also why I couldn't bring myself to give the book a five-star rating. The f-word is used at least five times... per page. That's a minimum. I understand why it's there. It's the future, so of course it's not as bad a word. And it is effective. It lends a mean, hard edge to it that would be lacking if it was not there. Still, if this bothers you, give this book a miss. I mean it. It didn't bother me so much, but, seriously, if it bothers you, or if you don't want your child reading that sort of thing, don't read it. All in all, though, it's a fascinating, frightening peek at a future one can only hope does not come to pass. Meg scary.
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Summary: So possible, so frightening
Review: This is a not-to-be-missed look at a not too distant future, where technology has been taken to the next degree. Implanted in the brain when a child is just an infant is the Feed, a link to an on-line world with instantaneous hype. Take a trip to the moon, and the Feed automatically clues you in to where the "in" places are to go. The Feed knows your buying preferences, your entertainment preferences, how to plug the latest fashion to fill your every want and it knows how to generate your next "need". This is consumerism on steriods. And, speaking of steroids, there is a trip to the tissue farm, where filet mignon is growing in the fields. The dialog is so real; the consumerism is so possible; the degradation of the global environment is so near. This book paints a picture of a world that is truly more frightening than horror stories. All of this is ingeniously included in a boy meets girl story of seemingly normal adolescence. Scariest of all: it seems almost inevitable. An outstanding effort by M. T. Anderson.
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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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Summary: Best with the "Book on Tape"
Review: This is some of the best "social satire" I've come across. The story is a future America where everyone has a direct network connection into their brain (the "Feed") where they get their entire education, entertainment, and a 24 hour barrage of personalized marketing. Very sarcastic, but also very realistic. I'm sure the book is very good, but the "book on tape" was great, as the narration was interspersed with other content (ads that the main character received, etc.). Highly recommended!
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Summary: Chilling
Review: This is where consumerism gets you. This book makes you want to bolt out of the mall and run for your life. But if you try to fight it - it'll kill you. The feed is the eerily close descendant of the palm pilot - not just carrying a mini computer aorund, but having it in your brain. Imagine emailing and IMing your friends...inside your brain. And imagine that along with your own internal monologue, there is a constant barrage of commercials...inside your brain. But you have to read the book to get the full effect. The author risks his credibility with the language his narrator assumes, but he definitely pulls it off. This is the sort of book we should have in classrooms today. By the way, I don't think the hacker had anything to do with Violet's deterioration - it was the way she treated her feed. The operators of the feed didn't want to put up with people like her, so when she became ill...
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Summary: UNITS, this book is MEG BRAG!
Review: Translation to the title: MAN, this book is VERY (mega) GOOD (I want to "brag" about it)!
Seriously, "Feed" is a book of substance, although the language may seem to prove otherwise. I was hooked from the first sentence, and I read this book in one day, not even that. When I finished, I realized how great our life is. Sometimes it seems so shallow-always getting wrapped up in fads, but never being able to catch up. This book exaggerates that. When I first started reading, I was like, "I can't understand this," because of the language (it's futuristic). But by the end, I was practically speaking it! "Feed" combines humor, romance, betrayal, terrifying (in an un-realistic but realistic kind of way at the same time), shallow-ness (is that a word), and sadness. It is a deep concept. They say "like" a lot, along with "f***," "thing," "unit," and "s***." Reading the previous sentence, you might think that I'm bashing on this book and trying to make you not want to buy this book, but it is worth it! So if you UNITS and UNETTES are NULL and need a good read, this book will satisfy your FEED!
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