Book Review: Feed (M.T. Anderson)

by Chris.

Recently (and when I say recently I mean many months ago) I read a book titled Feed. Now, to put it plainly Feed was complete and utter crap. But don’t take my word for it, just read this completely biased review written by me. I was actually pretty excited to read Feed at first because it was a Science Fiction novel set in a future where people have computers in their brain that basically program them to buy items. How will our main characters overcome the feed!? Trust me; it’s not as interesting as it sounds. Our main character . . . what is our main character’s name again? Oh yeah, now I remember, WHO CARES! The main character is basically the most boring, one-dimensional, moronic character I’ve ever read about.

Though, okay there may be some or a redeeming quality to this book and I will name them or it right now. The actual idea of a feed in someone’s brain does raise some interesting discussion questions. Like, if someone proposed to put a feed in your brain would you do it?  All the information you’ll ever need right at your fingertips, err . . . temporal lobe. While, I admit the idea of a feed is interesting, it’s really not worth torturing yourself by reading this . . . can I even call it story? Anyway, back to the review.

Our main character meets and falls in love with a girl who’s different. She attempts to fight the feed. In many ways this becomes a love story . . . a really really bad love story. Trudging through this book and reading about the character’s “problems” isn’t really worth it just to find an inkling of a tracing of a crumb of an iota of a piece of a scent of anything even seemingly interesting in this story, well it just isn’t worth it! Am I not making myself clear? AVOID FEED LIKE THE PLAUGE!!! You see that? Three exclamation points, that means I mean it. Okay, so maybe I am being a little hard on this trashy, dull, uninteresting story and maybe some people or a person outside of some mental institution would find Feed interesting, but that doesn’t mean they don’t belong there. But don’t take my word for it; just ask some of your friends who’ve read it. Oh, what’s that you say? You don’t have any friends who’ve read it? Hmm, I wonder why . . . Anyway, in short, I would not recommend Feed to you. Your time is precious folks, don’t waste it reading this schlock.