FEED

Paperback, 320 pages

Published March 3, 2003 by Walker Books Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-7445-9085-2
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3 stars (2 reviews)

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet 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 beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided 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., National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson creates a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire ushering us into an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.

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2 stars

The performance and production of the audiobook was much better than the actual story itself. A lot of the complaints I see here on GR are about the lingo and slang and how the kids talk. And I bet that could indeed be a bit difficult to read in print. But the narrator did a superb job of reading it for you and making it seem natural.

At first I kept distracting myself by focusing on how the relationship between Titus and Violet seems forced and convenient, like it's only here to drive the plot.

But then I was like, man, what do you really want here, self? It's a 300 page YA sci-fi political-techno satire thingie. It is OKAY for that particular driver of the plot to exist as an obvious plot driver. Shaddup and enjoy your damn book.

Let it be what it is.

and that's how I …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)