Reddit mentions of Feed

Feed is incredibly relevant: the internet and constant advertising in your head from birth, the northern hemisphere overrun with consumerism, and various companies fighting to maintain your brand loyalty while the rest of the world is rapidly poisoned.

Oryx and Crake is another good one, though the bogeyman here is genetic engineering and effective class warfare by segregating company workers from the pleebland masses. Multiple nefarious entities at work throughout this trilogy, mainly with conflicting goals.

I read Feed in my high school sci fi class. It discusses computers becoming so advanced that they are used to classify all human interactions, and all humans have their own computer in their head. It talks about the ethics of capitalism taken to an extreme and whether or not we should push technology so far. I didn't agree with the thesis of the book, but it stuck with me.

Hmm, I don't have much experience in this particular genre. I think the only ones I've officially read are Twilight and A Great and Terrible Beauty - I can't even remember if Gemma ends up with her love interest in that one. That said, if I'm picking up a romance book (I'm looking at you, Eva Ibbotson), I'm typically looking for some warm fuzzies. Maybe some emotional ups and downs along the way, but soul candy rather than hard life lessons.

Now in fiction in general and YA in particular, when romance is a side plot, I wholly appreciate awkward, unfortunate, and ambiguous endings. Boy Proof and feed are some excellent examples where teen wooing is a catalyst for change in the main character, but those subplots are not resolved with a nice bow tie.

In my own story, there's no neat, happy ending to the love interest subplot(s?), but I haven't yet decided how messy to make it. I've toyed with turning the intended into a reluctant antagonist.

There was a thread on /r/writing recently that might give some additional perspectives on this topic: You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You: Feminism and the YA Romance

Feed?

https://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763662623

Has anybody else read Feed by M.T. Anderson? One of my favorite young adult lit books - highly recommend putting it on the list under Dystopian.

I think you might appreciate the book Feed if you haven't read it before. Touches on a lot of this and it was written before it was a major topic (That page says 2012 but that's for the paperback, original was published 2002)

Is it Feed by MT Anderson?

It's time we all read "Feed". Dystopia here we come.

feed on amazon

From the synopsis:

>In this chilling novel, Anderson (Burger Wuss; Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, in which parents select their babies' attributes in the conceptionarium, corporations dominate the information stream, and kids learn to employ the feed more efficiently in School.

Here, you might like this book

The writing's not the best but the book makes a good point.

Some suggestions:
Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (but this might be a little young for your kids)

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

I'd also second Feed.

I highly recommend Feed

I just read it and was blown away

this is an example of science fiction becoming reality.

in the book called the feed you get an implant to connect you 24x7 to the internet. it costs lots of money... i think something like $ millions in today's money... if you can't monetize you... they take it back... and your life is usually destroyed because you are so hooked and your brain pathways and habits are soo intertwined.

in reality... you have the similar implant called android/iphone... and according to this post if youtube can't monetize you... then you lose your google account and your life is kind of destroyed.

lots of parallels.

I don't think we know, since we don't have them. I wouldn't imagine them being a pill, exactly, but more like a more embeddedable version of google glass, kind of like in FEED.

In inglese l'ho trovato subito su amazon.it
https://www.amazon.it/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763662623

se lo vuoi in italiano non so, non so neanche se è stato tradotto.

Feed

http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763662623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426818494&sr=8-1&keywords=feed