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panInteresting old take on new technology taking over. Social media and electronics being ingrained in your brain younger so the brain learns to require it. It was the lack premise of plot and character dialogue that flatlined it for me. Kept looking for it to choose a line and go. Loved the premise, though these kids lingo is barely understandable. Even if it‘s an award winner.
#OuterSpace. Teens go to the moon for Spring Break and meat is grown in fields. Loved listeniing to this when we were just beginning to get such easy access to information through technology. Scary how prescient this book was. Highly recommend audio that made it seem like I had a computer in my head just like the characters. Spring breakers arriving here at the beach. Time for us snowbirds to head home.#SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
panRead for school—not something I would pick up on my own and not a book I enjoyed reading. ⭐️⭐️
“when I think of really living, living to the full — all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms“
What sitcom do you think of after reading this? 🤔
pick4 stars for this teen sf story. It's set in the near future when we all connect to the feed through our implants and get bombarded by advertising and use it as a back channel to talk to people, even when we're in the same room with them.
While i was reading, I had a strong wish to hear an audiobook version instead. The teen slang was great, and it would be funny to hear.
so-so⭐️3/5
Black mirror feel dystopian story about technology taking over our lives in ways we might not notice. However, the story isn‘t that memorable, and to be honest, I‘d rather watch Black Mirror 😬
pickDisturbing. I can‘t believe this was written in 2002, before the days of Facebook and Twitter, and when Amazon was just an online bookstore. Cell phones were phones. In 2002, this probably sounded like a far-fetched future; now, it hits a little too close to home. The writing style did take a bit of getting used to, but this is a worthwhile read.
Patricia, your #feedareader box went out today. Should get it Monday! @PatriciaU @MinDea
The chicken is going to hang out with my Cuban sangria pitcher 🐔 😃#feedareader
Oh my gosh, @PolaroidPoet I LOVE my #feedareader package! I haven‘t read these two books either! I can‘t wait to try the recipe (I am a runner, so I love all things pasta) and can‘t wait to read about the chicken 🐔
Sending off my last swap of the year! Life has been crazy this year so very sorry it's going out so late but it should be there in 2/3 days from tomorrow!
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Thanks for my #feedareader package, @TamarackTrail ❤️❤️ I love the cookbook - already found a few recipes I want to try! I have really enjoyed this swap! @MinDea @TricksyTails
Jen did a great job of shopping for me for #feedareader! I think she is hinting at making tortilla soup 😍 I absolutely love red velvet, so I can‘t wait to try the pancake mix! i haven‘t read these books either and we usually like a lot of the same books, so I look forward to reading them! @JenlovesJT47 (Jen, did your address change? Your return is different than where I send horrorpost)
Sent off my #feedareader package today! @MinDea @TricksyTails
pickA slightly hesitant recommendation but overall I liked this one. The first 3/4 were quite good but the ending didn‘t resonate as much. However, it‘s a quick read. Told in dialect (futuristic teenage speak), it takes getting used to. However, once I understood what the book was doing, it clicked. The story of a future where all media, social media, communication, etc, is a chip in our head. And the world is deteriorating. No big deal. 😬
Book and coffee this morning, while being crawled on by various animals. Currently, Doggie on my lap and Radar the Simple Cat behind my head. Also another recommendation from Nick Hornby‘s Ten Years in the Tub. So far, everything I‘ve read that he recommends is at least a 3/5 Star read.
I‘m thinking of DNFing this. I‘m on page 30, does anyone know if it‘s worth hanging in there? I really hate the way it‘s written, the characters seem pretty cliche, and I also don‘t like when an author creates a bunch of new slang and plops it in the novel. I have no good feel for the world the author has created, which might be my biggest issue.
pickIf you like Black Mirror and read YA, this is the perfect book for you!
In a future (which feels like it‘s almost here) where your smartphone is implanted into your brain and the media and government is entirely run by corporations, how will you be able to differentiate between real life, real feelings, and the 24/7 advertising that lives in your brain?
This is terrifying because it feels like it‘s on our horizons. Soon.
I can‘t remember who I recently saw “pick” this audiobook, (was it you?) but I started it this morning because of your review. I wasn‘t sure I‘d like it at first, due to the surfer dude accents of the kids. But about an hour in and I really like it. Seems like maybe you mentioned that it made you think of Black Mirror? I‘m definitely thinking that!
#recommendsday!
pick#YAL #6- I nearly abandoned this one, but stuck with it since we're using it for book clubs. Then, 40 pages in, I was hooked. This is #dystopian and satire, and the author's take on humankind is brutal...and accurate. The characters' speech patterns are incredibly annoying, but not unplausible. The author tackles materialism, conformity, pop culture worship, voluntary ignorance, and media/tech bombardment - reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451.
@Nitpickyabouttrains look what showed up in the mail! I sent your package on its way yesterday so it should be there soon! #Feedareader
pickI was blown away by this audiobook. A dystopian that manages to be really scary in that it definitely seems like a possible future for us. The language is unusual and unique to this world (think Trainspotting or A Clockwork Orange) but I definitely recommend listening to the audio if you can. Excellent narration and very cool production.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
pickOverall: 4.5/5. This is an absolutely terrifying story where we are the monsters, as we so often are. It warns us of the brainwashing power of the corpocratic dystopia we have the potential to become, and urges that if we don‘t change, this is a very likely portrait of our future. I only hope enough of us will be Violets that we can avert the possibility of this vision‘s fruition.
For the full review, go to bergenreadsbooks.wordpress.com
A creepy, all too possible future #network.
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I've gone and joined another one. Only a few more days left if you want to sign up and #feedareader.
Thanks @MinDea and @TricksyTails !
pickAs far as YA goes this is top notch. I teach this book to my students and sell it as a “John Green novel set in the future”. It‘s a good way to hook the sci-fi sensitive, but there is so much more here to indulge the mind!
Currently #listen ing to these two #30daysofreadathon
pickOMG! OMG! I need a sequel!
The Feed is a love story wrapped up in sci-fi, techno, and commercials. In a future world, where computers are integrated into our beings at birth, the Feed is life. You are never alone. You can have almost anything at a thought. But what of the price?
Full review on Goodreads.
#beatthebacklist #petrified #ChamberThreats
I have done. I finished a second part of a 10 part reading challenge! (Okay, it's really 4 parts, but part 4 has 7 subsections. )
#beatthebacklist
A long time ago I was told I needed to read a Feed. Luckily it was one of this summers free AudiobookSync titles. It's mesmerizing. I can't pay attention to my work. The feed is everything. People barely read or writ anymore. So, so good.
pickHighly suggest the audiobook! The thought of having tech in my head throwing ads at me all the time really freaks me out. I mean, the way the internet is entwined with everything NOW makes me uncomfortable. So I don't know. I loved Violet and that was just truly awful. Plus her dad 😔
All of Titus' friends are wannabes. In fact, most of all humanity at this point are a bunch of #wannabe losers. This is NOT a future that sounds good to me. Man, poor Violet :(
#characters2017 @LibrarianRyan
so-soThe concept of Feed is an intriguing one: technology has taken over and people have information- streaming chips implanted in their brains. Consumerism, individuality, and intellectual stimulation are a few of the timely topics highlighted in the book. The plot and character development, though, is weak, and I found myself impatient for the story to end. For those who like dystopian fiction, Feed may deliver but it didn't grab me.
