This is an amazing book. Its like someone's (Andersons) creative mind put on paper in the form of a nonstop stream of consciousness. It all happens so fast you can almost imagine Anderson did this in one long 30 hour stint and then he crashed.
It reminded me of a series of sci fi books I read as a teen - the white mountains I think - in which the feed, or in this case the mesh cap, is not properly installed on some humans and they are trying to save the world from these robots. Unfortunately, in Feed, Violet doesn't save the normal people, she dies as a result of the feed. And our "hero" doesn't ease her departure.
The scary thing about Feed is that when you are sitting on your computer, looking at all the feeds coming in on Bloglines and you start trying to read them and keep up with what your colleagues are doing and the latest technology etc, you become mesmerized and hours disappear. If life didn't intrude once in a while, you'd stay on the computer forever. But maybe we will reach that point when life and bloglines merge and you sign up for a feed that sends food, and one that sends homework assignments and your new job feeds your next project from your boss and you no longer need to leave your house......
and then you forget about life before and you just go mal once in a while for fun
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