Feed

Feed is an amazing dystopian novel that kept me hooked from start to finish. The story explores mind control, rebellion, and the impact of technology in a way that’s both exciting and thought-provoking. The characters are relatable, and the world-building is compelling. Perfect for young adults or anyone who enjoys dystopian fiction with depth and action. Highly recommend!

Imagine a world where you don't have to leave your house. The internet, IMs, chats, stores and all connections to the outside world are directly installed... in your head. But, if you DO choose to leave your home, you have the ability to ride (not drive) in your "up-car" to the Moon, Jupiter, Mars, etc. Everything you'd ever want is directly at your fingertips. There is even a way to experience virtual reality and even watch your favorite personal memories with your friends. You can share your dreams and the thoughts and images that you see in your head (including your personal feelings while you were seeing these images) with other people- projected in their minds like a movie. Everything is connected. Everyone is connected. But, there's a problem. Due to this "connection" being constant, people lose pieces of their personalities. Commercials and advertisements are constantly being broadcasted into your MIND so that you'll get the sudden urge to buy, buy, buy everything that's in "style", even though styles only last about 15 minutes. Girls excuse themselves to go to the bathroom and change the part in their hair, people "zone out" during conversations because they're "chatting" with their friends IN THEIR HEADS! Human bodies aren't meant to function this way, so they begin to fall apart. Not everything is "meg rad". The scary part is, while this story is a bit over the top and far-fetched, I can't say that it will NEVER happen. I see the deterioration of Earth and America as a whole. (Tear down the forest to put up Air factories) I see the ever persistant need to be "connected". I am old enough to remember a time when cell phones didn't even exist- now, I can't possibly get through the day without checking my email and text messages. Even this review is online. How else would I be able to share this with you? The difficult part of the book- the vocabulary is really aggravating at first. It took me a few chapters to warm to the characters because they "like" said "like" everything in "meg" overtoned simpleton language. It was frustrating, at first, but I was over it by the middle of the book. The storyline carries it enough to overlook the aggravation. Even the narrator's dad says "Dude". haha. Great story. I read all the time and this story has been the best idea for the past few months, at least. Even though I am much older than its intended audience (I think around 14?) it is still really enjoyable. I may read more MT Anderson. "Feed" is my first.

Though this fine book takes place in the distant future (travels to the Moon are the equivalent of today's Spring Break trips to Ft. Lauderdale or Cancun), the main characters could just as easily be seen walking through today's malls. In fact, malls play a large role in the story. They are a symbol of our consumerism and homogeneity. The teen protagonists talk and chat in a manner not that different from today's teens. The main difference is that their communication is facilitated (or directed, if you accept the premise of the feed) by advanced technology. Why speak with your mouth when you can share thoughts with your friends? Why gather around a screen to watch a sports event (or, heaven forbid, attend in person) when you can all tune to the same channel and watch in your head? Why? Because interpersonal communication differentiates us from lower mammals (assuming you accept that we really do belong higher up on the food chain). Future teens do not communicate in these old-fashioned ways because they don't have to. There's the rub. Do technological changes improve our quality of life because they make some tasks easier to accomplish? Or do they diminish our experience because they make it easier to opt out? I will leave that up to you as you read this book. The initial chapters were a bit of a turn-off for me. It is so painful to hear the kids chat. Unfortunately, in the author's view, the indiscriminate and incorrect use of the work "like" continues into future centuries. Like, that is so lame! But we need to be steeped in this monotony to appreciate the rich story line that the author develops between Titus and Violet. This is no Romeo and Juliet story, though I suppose an enterprising English teacher may ask her / his class to compare the two, but it is a story of youthful innocence, self-consciousness, and hope. That said, this is not a book for younger or sensitive readers. There are scenes that include drug use and profanity. One test of a great book (for me) is how it ends. I was apprehensive as the story neared its conclusion. But I was quite pleased with the way the author chose to end this story. If you choose to read this book, I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did and that it gets you to think a little more about what it means to be a person and what we can do to enrich our time here a little more.

Por el precio yo esperaba algo de menor calidad, pero no esta super bien, es altamente recomendable para aquellos amantes de la lectura y que no les gusta gastar demaciado

Good condition. Its and interesting concept of a novel that is worth a read

A prescient tale of the strings attached to our consumerist lifestyle and where it might lead. It certainly has made me reflect on the growing role that technology plays, or the role I want/don't want it to play, in my life. Highly recommend.

Great book. I heard about this through a friend, and after reading it feel it's one of those great books that didn't get as much recognition as it deserves. The opening pages are some of my favorite to any book: we are immediately thrust into the narrator's strange world via his strong voice and use of dialect/neologisms that work to cement the strange dystopic future setting of the novel. Probably described as YA for the novel's voice and adolescent narrator, like all good YA books it transcends the YA genre and explores many interesting and broad-reaching themes. Published in 2002, when the internet was yet to invade every corner of our lives as it does today, this book truly felt visionary and premonitory, particularly with it's prediction of how advertising would track our every movements and filter into all aspects of our lives. A brilliant read, not without flaws, but any flaws the book may contain did not bother me in face of the great strength and force that the novel delivered. Absolutely recommended.

I loved the book. Somehow I didn't read it when I was a teen and only got to it much later, but I found it deeply enjoyable and quite relevant for the modern times. The print quality is also great - big font, good format.