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Simply beautiful and utterly frightening.

This story of America's final days touches on all of my own fears about the future of a vast technological empire of consumerism and recreation, where the rich have brains that are plugged into the "feed" where they communicate and tap into what can only be comparable to the Internet, and are thus numbed to the richness of human experience by their overstimulated, fabricated world of shopping, dancing, games, and space travel. However, not everyone can afford to get the feed, and other parts of the world are decaying.

This book was like a bit of Bret Easton Ellis meets the Jetsons meets H.G. Wells. Fantastic characters, language, and important questions raised about where human civilization is headed. I highly recommend the audiobook, which makes you feel like you are actually being bombarded by the advertisements in the feed.

scinfaxi's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mscinabernard's review against another edition

3.0

I hated pretty much all of the characters in this book. Their flat lives bothered me and it was completely based on consumerism. No one cared about anything. Everything was wasteful. I know this was the point of the book, but it was infuriating to read about. I need characters who have a pulse. Even Violet wasn't great to read about.

What saved this book and pushed it from a 2-star read to a 3-star read for me was the ending... maybe the last 15% of the book. It finally felt like they could feel and I was satisfied with the anger and sadness they felt. It's too bad they couldn't learn to live sooner.

jazzibunny's review against another edition

4.0

This book f*cked me up so badly. It took me a couple days to regroup and actually get myself back together. It changed the way I looked at media entirely.

I first tried to read this novel when I was 15 and it scared me too much so I stopped a third of the way through. I had to read it again for a class so I dived into it and when I was finished I had the most incredible book hangover I have ever had (last bad one was after Native Son by Richard Wright). I just couldn't stop thinking about the book, the world-building and the mood of the book itself.

This is definitely not a book to read when you're in a bad mood because it'll worsen it because this book is not light in tone at all. It's depressing but it's rewarding at the end.

It's highly immersive, well-written novel that will stick with you for a long time. Everything about the book is well done, characterization, plot, mood, even satire is scathing and on-point.

I feel like everyone should read this book because it's got some very relevant ideas.

terprubin's review against another edition

3.0

Take Bill and Ted, add a dying world and a teenage romance, and you get Feed. Honestly, I wanted to throw Titus, our erstwhile narrator, out the window on more than one occasion. M.T. Anderson endowed him to be an enormous "feminine hygiene product and the bag it came in". I kept going back and forth as to whether or not I liked this book... And honestly, I'm still not sure. But I will say this: I couldn't put it down.