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i read this because i was surprised that i liked feed so much when i read it for class. and as a teen book, it's really good. but to a grown-up reader, there are an uncomfortable amount of unanswered questions regarding characters' motivations and chronic gullibility and not enough history of the town that would make their responses and beliefs plausible...but as a fun, day-off, all-you-can-eat-buffet-made-me-too-sleepy-for-proust book, it was perfect. i am going to carefully say here that, unli
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Chris is an ordinary suburban boy. His biggest concerns are that he doesn't really like his friends any more, and he has a huge crush on a popular girl in his class. But with puberty come changes, like the unbearable thirst that comes over him whenever he gets angry, or the way his reflection has started to disappear...Chris begins to suspect that he's turning into a vampire.
The narration and dialog sounded very true to life of my memories of suburban teens, as does Chris's personality, still c ...more
The narration and dialog sounded very true to life of my memories of suburban teens, as does Chris's personality, still c ...more
Man, M.T. Anderson writes bleak, interesting books, with bleak, gutpunch-y endings.
My feelings on vampire mythologies are the same as Arthurian ones -- the one I encountered first is The Right One, and all other versions just annoy me. But despite this kind of vampirism being miles away from Jossian, I liked it anyway. The premise of a world where the supernatural is matter of fact and on the nightly news was really cool, and I wanted to know more.
My feelings on vampire mythologies are the same as Arthurian ones -- the one I encountered first is The Right One, and all other versions just annoy me. But despite this kind of vampirism being miles away from Jossian, I liked it anyway. The premise of a world where the supernatural is matter of fact and on the nightly news was really cool, and I wanted to know more.
Interesting take on vampires, as a teenager finds out he is becoming one (for no known reason, which seemed sort of unfair if you ask me). In his world, they are feared, hunted, captured and executed in the public eye. His hometown even performs a ritual with blood sacrifices annually to keep the vampire god in his other-worldy prison. Good read for the Halloween month, but not my favorite vampire or M.T. Anderson book thus far.
I was disappointed with how casual this book felt. For all the teenage angst involved, I was totally disconnected from the characters.
Dec 16, 2007
Meg
marked it as to-read
Nov 14, 2016
Zack
marked it as to-read
