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Feed by: M.T. Anderson Childrens Bookshop Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780763622596 ISBN: 0763622591 Label: Candlewick Manufacturer: Candlewick Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: February 23, 2004 Publisher: Candlewick Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: February 23, 2004 Studio: Candlewick Sales Rank: 14663 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. 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., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now. Amazon.com Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - dystopia from the insideRather than focusing on the political aspects of a dystopia, Anderson focuses on the cultural aspects. Almost everyone has an implanted "feed" from a very young age which gives them access to unlimited information, but also seems to allow corporations unlimited access to the individual. Everyone is constantly bombarded with offers and news of sales from corporations. This has the somewhat predictable result of dumbing down the population, to the point where all they care about are stupid shows on ... Read More: Rating: - A compelling comment on our future...It's been a long time since I read a book aimed at "young adults" since I'm no longer in the age category, nor do I know anyone who is. I think it's always important to keep in mind the intended audience for a book, so I went into this expecting something that was going to try to reach "teens these days," and I think this book, a sort of Philip K. Dick/Anthony Burgess combo, definitely succeeds in doing that, and in a way that wasn't overly preachy or condescending. Feed takes place in ... Read More: Rating:  - Feed for thoughtIt's easy enough to compare every dystopia book to 1984 or "Brave New World". Yet here's a dystopia book directed towards a completely different audience, we, the internet generation - teenagers. Aside from the completely different sort of world, "Feed" touches on a number of entirely different themes from the most famous dystopia novels. Yet "Feed" does the same ultimate thing "Brave New World" did for me - it made my brain hurt, provided me with some food for thought, and made me a bit ... Read More: Rating: - A Cautionary Tale for the Selfish GenerationIn this text directed at young adults, I found myself bereft of compassion and hard to relate to the cold almost robotic emotions and actions of the cast. However, about half way into my forced endeavor (you see, this was a classroom assigned text) I found myself unable to stop reading. It's the 1984 of a new generation. This book should be on reading lists worldwide, and more specifically on the classroom reading lists of its intended audience. The spoiled, self-centered children we are ... Read More: Rating: - Great story to the disturbing endThe story in itself is very well written. The launguage used makes it a bit more for teens 13+ years old. I enjoyed this book alot. The ending is very disturbing, but makes you think about the world. I won't give it away, but I would still recomend this book. |
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