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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 4 stars

  “Rather than focusing on the political aspects of a dystopia, Anderson focuses on the cultural aspects. Almost everyone has an implanted "feed" from a very young age which gives them access to unlimited information, but also seems to allow corporations unlimited access to the individual. Everyone is constantly bombarded with offers and news of sales from corporations. This has the somewhat predictable result of dumbing down the population, to the point where all they care about are stupid shows on the feed, and shopping. But wait, that sounds kind of familiar.
  
  There are other repercussions of the feed. People seem to be developing lesions, which continue unexplained throughout the book. By the end of the book, they have become fashion statements, with people who don't have them getting them surgically implanted. But where they come from, and why, is never explained.
  
  Also never explained is the meaning behind the attack that is described at the beginning of the book, causing several characters' feeds to malfunction. Why was the attack carried out? Did it represent some larger faction of society that was disenchanted with the feeds?
  
  Typically, I think, dystopic novels focus on the dissenters or malcontents. Having read this book, which touches on those who rebel only slightly, I can see why that trend developed. Quite frankly, reading about people who buy into the system is just not as interesting. Still, this was a good read, with an interesting premise.”

  mmz wrote this review Tuesday, September 2 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 4 stars

  “An excellent dystopian tale for young adults. M. T. Anderson is one of my favorite YA authors -- he always crafts interesting stories and his characters' voices ring true for me.
  
  There were a lot of interesting issues raised here, the major one being what happens to society if it accepts without question the picture of the world presented by organizations that have a financial stake in that perception.
  
  Quite well done. I especially enjoyed the slang Anderson created and his view of how teenagers react to the world around them -- Titus' reaction to Violet's predicament was very telling, and real.”

  Aimeesue wrote this review Tuesday, September 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “I became sucked into this book like mad. Eventhough it had loads of bad language, it was a new type of story line to me. So, I guess I'm saying that I... LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT!!!”

  evan m. wrote this review 10 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “It was meg freaky reading about this future world where computers called feeds control your brain. Oh and the big corporations control these feeds and they're constantly sending 'pop-ups' into your brain advertising their new products. Meg Freaky!”

  Mz. Monks! wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 2 stars

  “I think I was just too old to read this book. The message was good, however I did not like the way it was written. I am sure someone in their teens or 20s would like and appreciate the writing style and the "moral of the story."”

  Michelle H wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 4 stars

  “ Edgy, clever, and witty Feed packs some literary punches to warn and sometimes (amuse) us of the near future. The style and writing in the book are distinctly its own: Anderson writes in a language depicting how teens will speak in the future (it's quite entertaining to compare the slang to ours) and the profanity comes at you hard and fast.
  The characters in it our great, with Titus making you want to laugh and scream at him, the same goes for Violet as well. The ending will make you tear up so pack the tissues. However, it seems that the author has a real beef against capitalism which sometimes leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Overall all, though this wildly imagnitive novel is a fantastic addition to the dystopia genre.”

  Melinda C wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “Imagine that the internet -- with all its pop-up ads, social network sites, and consume profile databases - is hardwired directly into your brain.
  
  Imagine that every time you look at something, the search engine inside your skull decides to associate it with "other products you might like."
  
  Imagine that you've just met the girl of your dreams, and she wants you both to live outside your heads... ”

  theriabelle wrote this review Tuesday, October 28 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 4 stars

  “Titus and his friends all have one thing in common. This is a feed. Titus had surgery and he has something called a feed implanted in his brain so that he could understand and comprehend things. This feed also causes him to have crazy hallucinations and imaginations about things that he does not really see. Titus and his friends always gets this feed that they are on the moon and playing on it. The feed completely erases their memory and replaces it with halluncinations that he sees. One day, this crazy hacker comes and hacks into their feeds through a computer and messes up their thinking. Titus and his friends goes through a tough time overcoming this problem becasue they have no reocccurance of what happened in their lives before they recieved the feed and now they do not even know that their feed has been hacked into.”

  JOHNNY Q wrote this review Friday, October 24 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “this book challenges your comprehension levels at first because the futuristic teenagers that live on earth, (and occasionally venture to the Moon) use slang words like youch is cool, and Unit is Dude. The overall message that M.T. Anderson is trying to express is that the "media" like TV and shallow pop culture engulfes most of are free time. And that we are more worried about what we are wearing today than the destruction of the environment or a war in a foriegn country.”

  Hannah S wrote this review Wednesday, October 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. I wasn't thrilled with this book. The language was obnoxious: "Meg!" or "Dude!" The main character, Titus, was a jerk and didn't evolve til the last 3 pages. 1984ish. Shows that we are all driven by consumerism, without any regard for its effects on humanity. ”

  Cristina B wrote this review Wednesday, October 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )