Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon – a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before … 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 knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting 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 brave new world – and a hilarious new lingo – sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.
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Thought provoking
The first few pages convinced me that I was destined to have the story narrated in the voice of Jeff Spicoli inside my head; it was frightening. By about page thirty, it was like whoa, unit, this is meg. In other words, the book is simply brilliant. Though it was published eleven years ago, M.T. Anderson makes an unmistakable statement about …
this book is for anyone who wants to know what the world will be like in 20 years. A great book with so many things to unpack in a literature class setting. I love dissecting this book.
Pop cultrue and online advertising surround us now in 2018. Advertisers see what we are looking at, and they inundate other websites with pictures of items we’ve been investigating — anything to make the sale.
In this book, big companies have taken over everything. Even schools have a trademark sign. What’s more insidious is the “Feed” that …
Prophetic.
Chilling dystopian sci-fi novel. Very thought-provoking, though there was a lot of bad language. The sci-fi details are interesting and chilling. The ending wasn’t happy ever after, but hey, it’s dystopian sci-fi; that genre has endings that aren’t always tidy or nice. Makes us THINK.
I have to start by saying I did not finish this book. At first I thought it was rather interesting from the perspective of how teenagers might process information in a future world. But it didn’t take to long to become irritated by all the future world jargon and teenage attitudes. It may have improved once the story line was established but I …
There is a made up vocabulary that is not explained, with no context clues.