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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 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.
orange_chicken_252 thinks this title is suitable for 12 years and over
Future infants have "The Feed" implanted in their brains. It pumps in every kind of media & commercial & acts like an Instant Messenger, internet researcher, and more. Opiate of the masses. But they can malfunction with deadly results.
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Add a CommentIf I had one word to describe this book it would be disgusting. My 7 year old brother could write a better books than this. The writing is horrendous and the language unneeded.
I found it pretty boring, but I loved the character Violet and I thought the concept was good and chilling. I can definitely see society progressing towards this dystopia and that's very scary.
This is probably one of my favorite books ever. The language used is incredibly unique. I was able to devour it in one day, then throw it at a wall because the ending made me sad.
It is my favorite book because reading about Titus and Viclet's relationship is interesting and it keeps you wanting to read more.
- Cindy, Teen Volunteer
We have yet another romance novel where the female serves to advance the male protag in his self-realising character arc. Yawn.
I was very underwhelmed by this book. It had a great premise, and could have been really interesting, but the writing style made it hard to finish/boring. The author needed to do more "show than tell", and almost everything was told to us by the narrator with not a lot of actual dialogue between characters. The "rebellion" described was small and almost petty...and so were the lives of the characters. Since wE didn't really get to know the characters, we didn't really start to care about what happened to them either. Disappointing...
I loved this book. Although I didn't find very good comments about it. The writing of this book is different and the plot is very unique. It went extremely slow in the beginning but then it got much better. This book is basically representing the way our teenagers act but in the future. It also mentions how there are some people who care and people who are different, just like our world. Except people don't realize the bad things about it. This book is kind of a warning, too. Because soon enough we might have feeds installed in our minds. You never know! Another good point about this book is the emotions in it. This book made me cry in the end , which in my opinion was very sad. I also loved the characters and fell in love with their personalities (just a few characters). This book was like a diary, but different. Because when you read you feel as if the main character is sitting down beside you and telling you his story. Which is why I loved it!! <3
The idea was intriguing. That being said the book is a better paragraph summery than a story. The language is at times so unintelligible as to be unreadable. After a couple of chapters I skipped to the last chapter of part one and started reading again in the hopes to story would improve. It became marginally easier to read. The second part was by far the best part. The main character didn't seem to grow or change in any way. Just a run-of-the-mill teenage jerk.
Stylized satire of consumerism, youth culture, technology. Tone is very conversational, invented slang and language. Characters are semi-literate and inarticulate. Transformation of Titus at end seems abrupt. Source of change or reason is unclear and rang sudden
In the not-so-distant future, the main character and his friends have technology in their brain that allows them to do everything- communicate, listen to music, and even shop. Fast-paced, fantastic read that makes you think about what we might be like in a hundred years.