Feed

The book feed was a weird emotional roller coaster of a book. The writing was not at all subtle. My feelings about this book fluctuated from loving to hating this book in a matter of pages. I think that the reason that I could not decide what to think about this book is because you couldn’t tell how this book would end. The main character, Titus, not being particularly heroic of moral made him sway from being a washed out teenager in the beginning of the book to a complete a-hole when he deleted all of Violets memories at the end of the book. I found myself incredibly upset by his lack of caring about Violet at that point, it was as if she was just another clothing fad. This book seemed to come in phases. Everyone knows that a good book has a beginning, middle, and end. In this book the beginning was confusing, the middle was weird, and the end was infuriating, depressing, and sad. In the book Feed, the Feed was not evil but the corporations who used it to sell things were incredibly manipulative. I have said it before but I will say it again the book had the setting of a boring apocalypse which would have been preventable if people had not become so stupid, greedy, and lazy from their reliance on the feeds. The people relied on their feeds so much that they could barely think for themselves, in essence they had become hollow shells of human beings, barely even living or thinking. The people in the book sort of reminded me of the people in Walle who had become ignorant and stupid (and in Walle very fat). Both the people in both stories had trashed and polluted earth. The difference was that in Walle there was a happy ending. The phrase “I think therefore I am”, comes to mind in the sense that the people in Feed don’t think therefore they aren’t. The sad thing is that when technology like the Feed is made available to people we will naturally want to get it and will not be able to say no to something as irresistible as a computer which you can use just by thinking. While it initially seems cool and full of potential it soon becomes clear that with a computer to think for them people will let that computer think for them. Another thing that bugged me was the fact that people were not self sufficient in the book. This is concerning  to me because in the past 30 years people have become significantly less sell sufficient we Google anything that we do not instantly know. That is what my thoughts about the book Feed are split between hatred, intrigue, enjoyment, and sadness.