Feed as an audiobook
Everybody told me. But, until now, I didn't listen. Feed by M. T. Anderson is an incredible book, an utterly absorbing snarky sci-fi read about a future in which our brains are wired for digital communication from birth. The upside is messaging each other with minds alone. The downside is all the ads from the corporations who, collectively control the feed, and thereby also control our minds. When Titus meets Violet, whose feed was installed later than his own, he learns all kinds of things that he hardly has space to absorb in his product-saturated existence, things about socioeconomic differences and how expensive it really is to go to the moon. Which is where he met Violet, on spring break. This book has possibly the best first line ever: "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." But now I'm listening, and I mean really listening, because I finally got (read: broke down and bought from audible.com) Feed as an audiob