When I first started to read Feed, by M.T Anderson, I really didn't know what was going on. Early on within the first couple of chapters in this book, I honestly didn’t take Titus seriously when he talked about going to the moon. I thought the moon was just a metaphor for something else. It didn't take me long to find out that he was serious about this. Just casually going to the moon for something to do? That sounds unrealistic and gave me an uneasy first impression of this book.
It also took me some time to understand the whole concept of this “feed” that everyone seems to have. I find it so hard to imagine always having the internet on throughout the entire day just constantly swarming you with different shopping deals and photos and ads and just everything you could find on the internet. I don't even check my facebook everyday so the whole feed thing would just annoy me.
I think it’s interesting to do a little bit of comparing and contrasting this book and the previous novel we finished, Eleanor and Park. Both main women characters in each novel, Violet and Eleanor, are poor and both seem to be different than other girls. Their physical descriptions however are very unalike. There is actually a lot of things that are unalike or different between these two books. I just couldn't get into this book as well as I could the last. The different form of English in this book killed me to read. Slang words and concepts were used in this book that haven't even been invented yet. I constantly had to go back and re-read a few chapters because I was very unsure if I had read or interpreted something correctly. Eleanor and Park was much easier to understand due to the time period of the book.
I'm not going to say I necessary enjoyed the book, but I definitely didn't hate it either. The first 150 pages left me sort of indifferent. I guess for me the book is too centered around the future of technology. I am not one to love the idea of how increasingly fast technology is expanding. So reading a book that is this far in the future is a little rough. Although I love having the internet, and I love having a smartphone, I find the idea of having a "feed" implanted into your body (or however that works) to be a little excessive. Maybe the author is trying to prove something about people being too dependent on the internet or their technology devices? Or maybe not. Surely when we get more into the book we will be able to make better connections.
I hated the book. All the characters were narcissists. Hard to read a book with such unlikable characters.
ReplyDeleteJohn- Well maybe the characters aren't as easy to read but the idea of the book has power to it. It's like our world today but at 100x's.
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