false <![CDATA[Feed]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172368993m/169756.jpg 169756 12 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. <p> 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.<p> 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) <I>--Patty Campbell</I> 163928 2002 Feed total:3189|5:934|4:1097|3:801|2:252|1:105| 3189 12070 4729 706 4 14 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 17 06:48:04 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 07 07:25:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 19 12:54:31 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 13:07:37 -0700 2007
The story is about Titus and Violet, and the Feed - an internet connection implanted in the b...more...]]> 5 6 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 23:08:24 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 13 02:09:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 25 12:47:42 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 12:49:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false true Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Mar 31 07:53:31 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:00:54 -0700 2008
This is what Brenna said about it at age 15:
"WOW. This book was amazing. I don't know how M.T. Anderson thought of all this. Everything in the book was so creative...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 18 22:29:16 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 22:49:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 4 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 12 01:56:30 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 02:29:16 -0700 2007 very close to banishing it to the back of my bookshelf.
This book is one that I found hard to get into, the beginning is slow and slightly tedious with the slang and the "Like, totally, man" quality of the narrators speech, it wasn't 'til abou...more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Aug 28 16:04:22 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 16:14:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Apr 09 08:01:25 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 07:45:12 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:01:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:27:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:58:19 -0800 2009
Feed is a novel that needs to be experienced. Anderson projects a world where fast-paced internet consumerism has taken over society, where people have the internet basically wired into their bodies...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 20:25:52 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 16:54:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 16:08:01 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 18:55:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 14:29:23 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 03 10:11:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 13:26:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 13:26:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Dec 18 08:18:54 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 21:47:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 06:00:06 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 06:08:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 08:32:37 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 08:33:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 11 08:30:15 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 08:30:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 14:15:12 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 14:22:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Feb 17 08:36:25 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 09:08:40 -0800 2009 2
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