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Consider what your life would be like if you could access the Internet directly from your brain. No need to learn to spell - just access the dictionary directly. But the "feed" to the brain is controlled by advertisers. This book describes just what the first generation of teenagers might be like who have a "feed". The book is on the dark side but provactive considering a new generation growing up with the Internet.

I really enjoyed this book. It accuratley portrays how stupid people can be, and how caught up in crazy trends teens can be. It was very creative, and a short, quick read. I reccomend this book!

This book was a interesting story set in the future. It was sad to see to the level we had sank ecologically. The unique language takes a bit to get used to, but the overall moral of the story was a good one.

Amazing book! It's written in the first person from the point of view of an uneducated teenage technophile, which will take some getting used to, but it's worth wrapping your mind around. This near-apocalyptic version of a capitalist superpower bent on instant gratification seems almost inevitable.

This book is an excellent young adult novel. The writing style takes some getting used to at first because it is narrated by the voice of a teenager in a dystopian future, so the voice is a bit annoying: lots of "like," "um," and obscure slang. However, this is an intentionally disjointed voice because it is meant to demonstrate the deterioration of minds in this hypothetical future. Fascinating read, very thought-provoking. Not to plot-spoil, but the ending is both tragic and poignant. Read it along with your teenager and then talk about it together.

This book features a great concept--a future America where people have a computer chip implanted in their brain as a baby that allows them to shop, watch movies, listen to music, and privately chat to others. Titus is a typical teenager of this future, so caught up in his feed that he doesn't notice or even care when he does notice all the environmental problems and social unrest in the world. The book proceeds to show what happens when he starts dating Violet, a girl who does notice. Unfortunately, Titus instead of growing and changing just continues to do things to Violet that are progressively more and more jerky. He seems to lack most human emotion or empathy. Violet makes him uncomfortable, and he just wants to return to his feed cocoon. Perhaps that is Anderson's point--that the feed and consumerism dehumanize--but it read as a bit too sympathetic to a character as douchey as Titus for my true liking.

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