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    Feed

    Written by M.T. Anderson

    Narrated by David Aaron Baker, John Beach, Anne Twomey and Tara Sands

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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.

    For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play 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 has decided to fight the feed and 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 not-so-brave new world - and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 24, 2003
    ISBN9780807216552
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    M.T. Anderson

    M. T. Anderson is the critically acclaimed author of many picture books and novels, including Feed, which was a National Book Award finalist, and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, which won a National Book Award and was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book.

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    • 5/5
      Holy wow, this was an awesome audiobook. (Summary paraphrased from jacket copy) Titus is a teenager whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his "feed", a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what's happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A girl who decides to fight the feed. So, besides being a completely awesome and intense and well-written book, this is one of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to. Narrator David Aaron Baker gives each character a distinct voice and he totally gets the cadence of teen speech. The production is great, too. There's a slight echo effect to indicate when characters are "chatting" each other (talking using the feed instead of their voice) and the story is periodically interrupted by commercials just like you're listening to the actual feed. Highly HIGHLY recommended for high schoolers and adults. (Fair warning: there is a fair amount of foul language.)
    • 3/5
      Feed was a powerful novel and at times it felt as if our society was already in this dystopian place. The message of how technology is influencing our society was clearly portrayed throughout the novel. I felt the character development was not as strong as it could have been.
    • 5/5
      If you disapprove of profanity, books written in the vernacular, or stories that acknowledge that teens do indeed have sex (that's where teen pregnancies come from - true story), then don't bother with this. You won't like it.Otherwise, it's a powerful little dystopia which focuses on the social issues and not romance. It hearkens back to an older and darker style of the form as well.
    • 5/5
      This was a re-read, in preparation for leading a group discussion at school. Of course, it's an utterly brilliant book, and more hilarious than I remembered. It was also exactly as depressing as I remembered; I put off the re-read a long time for that reason. It precisely pushes my buttons about advertising, consumption, the American bubble, and generally fiddling while Rome burns. Twelve years after it came out, we're that much closer to the world of the book; it's impressively and demoralizingly prescient. If you need me in the next few days, I'll be rocking back and forth in my house, ordering pants on the internet to dull the pain of existence.
    • 5/5
      So happy I re-read this and annotated it. I've always loved this book, but I find the dependence on technology and specifically a social media connection even more haunting and relevant now than I did as a teen. I love my phone and a few apps, but I can't imagine being constantly inundated with noise and images and endless fucking advertisements every second of every day. I also found myself growing more and more angry with the main character the further I got into the book. This is not your typical teen relationship. Both characters have instances where I want to smack them, but I was legitimately furious with Titus by the end of the book. I can't remember feeling that way as a younger reader - maybe I saw something redeeming in him then? It's gone now.Anyway, I love this book. I annotated with a friend so the copy goes back to her, but I definitely want to pick up a spare and annotate my own as well. Maybe by the time I do that, my thoughts on Titus will have changed again!
    • 1/5
      Got 4 chapters in, and decided this is unreadable. Really not too good.
    • 5/5
      'Everything we've grown up with the stories on the feed, the games, all of that it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to.' ~VioletExcellent auidiobook. Made with clips of the feed tuned in between chapters.
    • 4/5
      Who is MT Anderson? Why is he so insanely talented? Octavian Nothing was probably the best YA historical fiction I’ve ever read, and Feed is the best Sci-Fi Dystopian YA I’ve ever read. They’re completely different books with different styles, voices. It feels like they were written by different authors.

      The scary thing about Feed is how close we are to this sort of future. I worked in advertising for many years, and we were always salivating over different ways to market to people, each one a little more invasive.
    • 4/5
      I found this sci-fi YA dystopian novel all the more frightening because it was so plausible. On the surface, it is the story of a romance between two teens of different backgrounds but the underlying story is in the setting. The disfunction of American society is highlighted by the fact that the main character is oblivious of it, even after circumstance forces it into his (and the readers') attention.
    • 3/5
      The stilted prose was both uncomfortable to read and entirely appropriate for the world Anderson built. Kind of like a piece of art that you can appreciate for its message and the skill of its execution, but wouldn't want to look at again.
    • 3/5
      3Q, 2P Thought provoking science fiction story highlighting the threat of the brain in the form of a PC. The story highlights a clique of friends socializing at a party until their brains are hacked, sending them into a funk. The story features boy meets girl, but when girl appears smarter than boy and her brain (Feed) is permanently malfunctioned, the relationship wanes. Regardless of the technology pressures, inclusive of constant advertising and chatting sent to the head, teens are the same from one generation to another: confused, clumsy and looking for stimulation. The reader does not gain much endearment for any of the characters, but the writing and concepts are brilliant....worth the read to stretch all ages' thinking.
    • 4/5
      5P, 3QI think the very first lines of the books really sum up what I liked most about Feed, which is the language:"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.We went on a Friday, because there was shit-all to do at home. It was the beginning of spring break. Everything at home was boring. Link Arwaker was like, "I'm so null," and Marty was all, "I'm null too, unit," but I mean we were all pretty null..." p. 3
    • 4/5
      When there is a constant steam of games, shows, chats, and ads feeding directly into your brain, does the world make sense without it? Titus and his friends have never wondered about the streaming until a hacker causes their feeds to malfunction, leaving them stuck on the moon with nothing but their own thoughts for days. If that weren't mind-boggling enough, Titus meets Violet, a girl who has made the conscious decision to fight the feed. This smart, savage satire depicts a future that is unnervingly close to the here and now." -back of book. Eerily accurate portrayal of teen world, just enough (futuristic) slang, shifting friendships, anxiety & angst to feel like today. The setting: a scathing, scary depiction of the future of American culture, produced by mega corporations who not only maintain & bombard the "Feeds" in people's brains to satisfy their every consumer whim and massage their desires for constant buying, but ominous news clips, hints of a slowly devolving political system and threats from the "Global Alliance". As Titus and his friends zip around in their "upcars" we get glimpses - mentions- of the destroyed atmosphere, the "fake"oceans, the gray ash, the air factories while Americans live & shop & work in "bubbles" and under "domes." Adult themes, some sexual situations, and shrewd satirical commentary woven into a budding love story that takes a tragic turn. Great book to use w/older teens to compare to other futuristic dystopian classics like 1984, Brave New World, and -the slang bits- Clockwork Orange. (less)
    • 4/5
      4 stars for the audio book, 3 stars for reading on ones own. This book is best read very slowly if reading the paperback. Some parts are difficult to understand when not heard aloud.
    • 3/5
      This was a audio sync book offered in the summer program. I read it now for SF, near future. This is a dystopia book that zeroes in on our increasing use of technology to communicate to the point we fail to communicate, lose empathy and are marketed by corporations so that all we do is consume. The earth is destroyed and the people are oblivious. There is a lot of swearing and sexual content in the book, which i find hard to swallow in YA but as far as swearing. I think the author is showing that as are use of language deteriorates, all we know how to do is talk in slang and swear words. I get that, but not sure that the message is clear to the young audience that might be reading the book. The audio aspect of this book featuring the Feed was a great part of the audio. Rating; 3.37
    • 4/5
      I Love Feed it is an awesome book. Love it
    • 4/5
      Feed is an execellent book of the consequences oh having too much media. The book has a future setting and it's something in the future that I could see happening. At first, it is hard to understand What is happening but then it makes more sense.
    • 5/5
      “So one time I said to her that she should stop reading it, because it was just depressing, so she was like, But I want to know what’s going on, so I was like, Then you should do something about it. It’s a free country. You should do something. She was like, Nothing’s ever going to happen in a two-party system. She was like, da da da, nothing’s ever going to change, both parties are in the pocket of big business, da da da, all that? So I was like, You got to believe in the people, it’s a democracy, we can change things.
      She was like, It’s not a democracy.
      I was like: Then what is it?
      A republic, It’s republic.
      Why?
      Because we elect people to vote for us. That’s my point
      So why is it like that?
      Because if it was a democracy, everybody would have to decide about everything.”



      I picked this book without any high expectations, and thought to give it a try, as a light summer read. But the love story in the future dystopian world dominated by the feed, was everything but light.

      Simply put, this book is excellent and I am so glad I stumbled upon it.
    • 4/5
      I originally saw this book at the bookstore on a table of "banned books." I can see why high schools might be reluctant to let kids read this, because of the language in it. But it was a very good book, with a very sad ending, and a message about where we may be going with society. Set in the not too distant future, the book blasts consumerism and the search for experience.
    • 4/5
      The Young Adult publishing industry category indicates that a book is written in a way that does not challenge the reading skills and literacy of teenagers, and features teen characters doing teen things, hurting each others feelings, conforming to norms, and reacting against adult expectations. While Hollywood believes that movie fans like to believe that everything is all right in the end, YA authors seen to aim to let teens wallow in sorrowful emotional feelings. This is YA Speculative Fiction set in a dystopian world which is crowded and polluted, in which a technology of implanted chips connect most persons to internet and social media, pervasive surveillance, intrusive marketing, and constant evaluation for not responding to advertising. This novel won publishing industry YA category awards. It did not win SF awards. It won awards in the categories in which it deserved consideration.
    • 2/5
      I found this to be very effective as an audio book. They did a great job adding in auditory references to the feed.
    • 4/5
      Really crazy book, but almost believable about where we are headed as a society with technology.
    • 4/5
      Much like the titular “feed” that dominates the lives of the adolescents featured in this story, Anderson’s novel fluctuates between two goals—it is both a cautionary satire against the dominance of pervasive, continuous media saturation of our everyday lives and a poignant tale of doomed adolescent romance.Set in a future America where citizens decide when the sun will rise and set in their self-contained suburbs, teenagers vacation on the moon, and no one exists unless a marketing conglomerate can construct a profile of you based on your online activity (especially your shopping habits), Feed tells the story of Titus and Violet, two adolescents who meet while vacationing on the moon. While there, their feeds (in this future America, you see, nearly everyone is hard-wired to the Internet via an implanted feed) are hacked by a cyber-vigilante. Although Titus and most of his friends recover from the cyberattack, Violet—whose feed was implanted when she was at an advanced age and whose parents had to settle for a low-budget feed—suffers more grave consequences.Although the neologistic slang that Anderson invents for his characters takes a bit of time to master, his satire of our contemporary obsession with staying “cyber-connected” at the expense of genuine human connection is bitingly clear throughout the narrative. One could criticize the literary merits of this work by pointing out that the minor characters are not very well developed and that the plot shifts its focus about two-thirds of the way into the novel from satire to melancholy and tragic romance, but the argument might also be made that these features of the novel occur by design to emphasize the dehumanizing effects of all-pervasive technology.An overall quick read, Feed provides much fodder for the conversation about the relative benefits and drawbacks of technology that seems to develop at an increasingly exponential pace.
    • 1/5
      science fiction (teen/adult= "ages 14 "). This was ok, but not that interesting (I would've liked a more plot-driven novel rather than world building and navel gazing). The valley-speak, like, is sorta annoying? Like, a lot? Which maybe was less annoying in 2002 (when this was first published) but which is very tired now, to me at least.

      I got to p. 165 or so, but really did not see a reason to continue. Note to parents (who may or may not care): this book contains the f-word and other swears, and drug-abusive behavior (self-driven "malfunctions" as run electronically through people's feeds).
    • 4/5
      Confessional: I am not a big fan of futuristic, dystopian novels. Feed is Anderson's commentary of big corporation greed and its power over society in the form of extreme consumerism. Additionally, information technology and data mining are taken further by the invention of a brain-implanted feed network capable of scanning and collecting people's thoughts and feelings and regurgitated back as commercials. Told from the first person perspective of Titus, we meet Linc (cloned after Abraham Lincoln), Marty (the guy with the Nike speech tattoo which causes him to insert the word Nike into every sentence), Loga (ex-girlfriend of Titus), Calista (the first girl to get lesions as a fashion statement) and Violet (Titus's new girlfriend and the one to reveal the dangers of the feed). Violet is the most interesting of the group. As an underprivileged teen, she did not get a feed insert until she was older. This causes malfunctioning and Violet's ability to "fight" the feed. Although it is a predictable ending, I appreciated Anderson's reality of the situation.
    • 4/5
      A brilliant, scathing commentary on our world today: pop culture, youth culture, consumerism, colonialism, environmentalism. Anderson is incredible at creating futuristic pop culture, comprised of trends like "speech tattoos" (in which someone pays to have a word--say, a brand name--inserted into every sentence they speak), bands, fashions. He is equally excellent at believable characters.

      The grief and horror of this book are almost overwhelmingly realistic.
    • 4/5
      A bleak vision of the future where the children of the rich cavort in nightclubs on the moon while high on designer drugs and broadcasting their brains directly onto a combination of internet, television, and radio called the Feed. Each of them has a chip in their brain that lets them access all human knowledge at all times. They can also chat directly with their friends inside their heads as well as share experiences directly. All this media overload is great when the world is literally dying and everyone is beset by strange lesions caused by some unknown and unexamined manufacturing byproduct.During spring break on the moon, our protagonist meets a girl who is different. Her name is violent and she's wearing clothes made of actual cloth. She's been homeschooled and her parents are weird technology-averse people essentially raised on a compound. They saved all year to send their daughter to the moon for spring break. Unfortunately, they are all caught it some sort of terror attack that temporarily disables their Feed chip.While convalescing in the hospital, the protagonist and Violet bond. They begin dating and Violet has all sorts of strange interests and hobbies. She keeps encouraging the protagonist to think more deeply about their world. Unfortunately, Violet is having a hard time recovering from the attack. She's suffering long-term affects and it seems like her chip has been fatally damaged. Now she's slowly losing control of her body and her mind. She has dreams of really living before she dies but the protagonist is too freaked out by it all and ends up breaking up with her. Of course, this doesn't help and so he has to watch her die slowly knowing that he's made her suffering worse.A grim but compelling book that reminds me of A Clockwork Orange with the way new slang is seamlessly incorporated throughout. Dark but funny and beautiful.
    • 5/5
      Narrated by David Aaron Baker. The audio version presents the futuristic theme very well, in particular hearing the message "feeds" of the individual characters. I wouldn't have gotten the true feel of the book if I had just read it.
    • 2/5
      Like in 1984, most words went over my head. I can't pick up the jargon like the way I used to. There's at least one quote that freaks me out because it's accurate in 2020.
      Not going to spill the beans here.

      I had high expectations of this book, but the writing style is just not for me.
      Maybe I'll find luck in his other books? We'll see.
    • 2/5
      2.5 stars

      I think I was the wrong audience for this book since it's really for younger readers. Often I like those types of stories, but the characters in Feed were annoying to me. I do still recommend it to younger readers. Everything is so in your face which is really what the book is about. Instead of using computers, phones, etc., the feed to everything is right in everyone's head. Everything is instant. There are benefits and of course drawbacks. The drawbacks can even be deadly. The layout is futuristic, science fiction, dystopian and consumeristic.