Feed Science Fiction Book
Feed Book Review - I greatly enjoyed this specific book because of its different approach to the possibility of a future with such crazy things as “air factories” and “feeds.” It tells of a teenager on the moon for Spring Break, named Titus. Almost everyone in the United States uses the “feed,” a chip that is inserted into the brain that makes life much more convenient for people.
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Many people use it and it but some people don’t or get it later in life. He and his friends meet a girl named Violet on the moon; she got hers later in life. Thus, when something happens, her feed is damaged and theirs are not. Titus tries to help her through what has happened to her. Through the novel there is very peculiar slang used by the teens and I find it very odd yet interesting. I believe it shows how our culture and language constantly changes. The pop culture in our country is insanely influential on all people and the speech used by the characters and what everyone does shows that perfectly. I believe that the whole atmosphere and setting of the book tells a story in itself of how our world is so close to destroying itself. When you have to cut down trees to build an air factory, you know that our world is in trouble. To me the novel shows amazing insight and I recommend it to anyone who wants to try reading a book that is out of the norm. I promise that it will answer some of those “what if” moments you’ve probably had when thinking about how our future will be. It was a fun read and really got my gears turning.
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This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy. Anderson gives us this world through the voice of a boy who, like everyone around him, is almost completely inarticulate, whose vocabulary, in a dead-on parody of the worst teenspeak, depends heavily on three words: "like," "thing," and the second most common English obscenity. He's even made this vapid kid a bit sympathetic, as a product of his society who dimly knows something is missing in his head. The details are bitterly funny--the idiotic but wildly popular sitcom called "Oh? Wow! Thing!", the girls who have to retire to the ladies room a couple of times an evening because hairstyles have changed, the hideous lesions on everyone that are not only accepted, but turned into a fashion statement. And the ultimate awfulness is that when we finally meet the boy's parents, they are just as inarticulate and empty-headed as he is, and their solution to their son's problem is to buy him an expensive car. Although there is a danger that at first teens may see the idea of brain-computers as cool, ultimately they will recognize this as a fascinating novel that says something important about their world. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell
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