Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world–and a smart, savage satire about the nature of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager in America. A girl who decides to fight the feed.įollowing in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, M. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., National Book. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world, and a smart, savage satire about the nature of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager in America. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut, M.T. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone’s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what’s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. Anderson, 2002, Candlewick Press edition, in English. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. So says Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his “feed,” a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. MediaType Audiobook shortDescription “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages
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