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I tried reading this, and disliked it intensely. I decided to give the audio book a shot, and liked it quite a bit. I couldn't read the slang and the stream-of-consciousness, but I could understand it when it was read to me. I have no idea how the readers did it, but the audio book was compelling and made complete sense. It's a dystopian, nearly-end--of-the-world look at capitalism and consumerism to the extreme. Corporations control nearly everything, the world is polluted enough that we live i
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OMG. So creepily prescient. Brilliant.
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I re-read this to prepare for Banned Books Week 2022 and like DAMN MT ANDERSON WAS ON SOME NEXT-LEVEL SHIT. HIS MIND!!!
* it is sadly a pretty white/cis/straight world he depicts but still the writing is so good and the concepts are so well-rendered! aaa
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I re-read this to prepare for Banned Books Week 2022 and like DAMN MT ANDERSON WAS ON SOME NEXT-LEVEL SHIT. HIS MIND!!!
* it is sadly a pretty white/cis/straight world he depicts but still the writing is so good and the concepts are so well-rendered! aaa
The author does many things well; in particular I like his use of language to convey the shallowness of the society. His characters can't express deep feelings or complex ideas because they lack the vocabulary; all real knowing is made unnecessary because of the feed. Learning isn't impossible but it is easier to rely on the feed so most people simply don't bother. An obvious parallel can be made to our current reliance on Google, etc. Why know anything when we can just 'google it?'
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My pre-teen self would have absolutely loved this book, which is about a dystopian future in which everyone is plugged into an information feed that controls their bodies and every thought. My 33-year-old self liked it OK, but maybe the younger self is a better test of a YA novel.
Okay, five stars for the first half of the book and three for the second half, so I settle on an average of four. I loved getting to know Titus' world, his friends, and envisioning our world going down this path. Weirdly and amazingly prophetic! But the second half: Of course I was ticked Titus was such a jerk--but can understand that his reactions might be a realistic. Did he really not love Violet or at least have feelings for her? I guess the part that bothers me most is that in the end, he d
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Once I was able to get into the dialogue (at first it comes across as too-hip teens-from-the-future talk, but you eventually learn it's actually everyone's-dumb-know-because-we-breed-them-that-way talk), I really enjoyed this. Delightfully anti-consumer, and I loved the worldbuilding. This book gets it right, to my mind - most of the major events of the obviously impending apocalypse happen in the background and the main characters hardly even notice, because they're teenagers who have been rais
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Man, this was a scary kind of book. (Not sure what was scarier, the adults as vacuous and inarticulate as the teens, or the lesions. ACK.) It was all too possible of a "what-if." I really liked it a lot, would definitely recommend it to people, but I wasn't keen on the heavy use of slang in the first half, or the ending. The ending seemed really off to me. ...more
Man, this was a scary kind of book. (Not sure what was scarier, the adults as vacuous and inarticulate as the teens, or the lesions. ACK.) It was all too possible of a "what-if." I really liked it a lot, would definitely recommend it to people, but I wasn't keen on the heavy use of slang in the first half, or the ending. The ending seemed really off to me. ...more
I think I'm supposed to like this. I like MT Anderson, and it's a dystopic young adult novel, right? I read the first few pages, and couldn't get into it at all. Didn't like to twitter-ish slang tone of the whole thing. Maybe another time I'll actually read it.
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