Feed was a really interesting novel in that it gave me a different perspective on our society and how the media and television and ads affect not only the society as a whole, but us individually as well.
What really hit home for me though, is when I started to realize what the feed actually represented and I realized how we are actually programmed by media and public figures to think one way, and that we are robbed of a level of our individuality. We allow these influences to set the status quo for us and we are becoming puppeted by the media, all just by living in society.
What frustrated me about reading Feed was that Anderson wrote the novel in such simple language and that so many words were abbreviated. The book became almost frustrating to read because of the level of simplicity and basicity of the wording and language, although I did understand that it was an exaggeration of our society.
Going along with the simplified language, it only became grating to me when the chapters started getting longer and longer as the book progressed. In the beginning of the book, the chapters were shorter and the plot was a little drawn out, but it was bearable because the progression in the chapters happened much quicker and there was less dialogue to process and interpret.
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