Feed
- 299
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Feed” is an unnerving satire of consumer culture, told by a teenage boy whose brain implant never stops selling to him. Some readers praise the premise and how easily the book goes down; for some the world around them is a constant reminder of it. Others tire of the narrator’s teenage slang after a while. The book is short, and its tone swings between the sardonic and the sombre.
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About the book
Feed (2002) is a cyberpunk, satirical, dystopian, young-adult novel by M. T. Anderson, focusing on issues such as American hegemony, corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decline, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone. From the first-person perspective of a teenaged boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising and corporate exploitation, corresponding to the enormous popularity of internetworking brain implants called feeds.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 189 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 56% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 18 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 171 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Feed?
It has 299 pages — shorter than 81% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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