The book Feed, is set in a not so distant future where technology controls everything. The Feed is a microchip implanted in the brain that gives everyone access to the web. People can just take a trip to the moon whenever they want. The earth itself takes on a look of Coruscant from Star Wars. The Earth is layer upon layer of residential zones. The rich live closer to the surface with flying cars while the poor live at the bottom levels with ground transportation. There are no forests or animal farms, instead there are Oxygen factories and meat farms.
However, all is not well in this future world. There is no true education system. Everything including the "schools" are owned by corporations. The "President" is truly a puppet to the corporations with no real education and that angers other world leaders with his careless words and lack of diplomatic skill. Not only that but there are multiple groups that try to point out what's wrong with the feeds and these groups are kept silent one way or the other.
So far, I have found the book interesting. After reading the first 150 pages I can tell it is building up to something. It reminds me of a book trilogy by James Dashner (author of The Maze Runner trilogy and prequel) The Eye of Minds. This trilogy is set in the not so distant future as well, where virtual reality acts like the feed. People would enter "coffins" which created a virtual reality. One could spend days inside the coffin, fed by nutrients sent into their body. The virtual reality allowed anyone to do mostly anything. They could customize themselves to make them look better, they could eat whatever they wanted and not gain weight. The virtual reality in The Eye of Minds and the feed are similar in that most of the population spends all of their time using it.
There are some parts of the book I don't like so far. The language used by the main characters is difficult to understand at points. It would be similar to Shakespeare trying to understand us. He would understand parts of what we say but not everything. However, this is the only major flaw that I have with the book and am liking it more than Eleanor & Park which was read previously.
I too am finding this book much more interesting. The way in which they speak I find extremely frustrating. As everything is so simple, it lacks dimension. Referring to your Shakespeare reference, it's probably what Shakespeare would think of us today, with out terminology of "fleek", "bae" etc.
ReplyDeleteI also find the language used in this book to be a bit difficult. Even though I am not crazy about the book so far, I think overall I will end up liking it more than Eleanor and Park, just because I am expecting there to be some kind of exciting plot twist in the end.
ReplyDeleteI like how you pointed out their environmental problems, and their lack of education and that the President is basically a puppet, its so true. They make the president seem so stupid. It is frustrating trying to understand the main character's way of speaking but I think its an important part of the book, I think it is to show us how uneducated he really is, because of their lack of an education system. People are easier to control when they know less and I think thats why his grammar is so bad, because the big corporations want to keep the general population "dumbed down".
ReplyDeleteI like your comparison to Coruscant in Star Wars, that is how I imagined it and how they drive their "upcars". The language is difficult for me to follow at times also. Some of their lingo took some getting used to.
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