Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Teaser Tuesday - 1/15/13

I had a lazy weekend that I spent blowing my way through The Girlfriend's Guide to Boys series by Stephie Davis/Stephanie Rowe. It was a cute, fairly predictable series that was exactly what I wanted. After finishing the last book last night, I decided to actually consult my TBR list on Goodreads, and I looked up Feed by M.T. Anderson. The writing style is pretty interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.

The rules for Teaser Tuesday are:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  • Then hit up Should Be Reading to add your link.

And the teaser:

When we got off the ship, our feeds were going fugue with all the banners. The hotels were jumping on each other, and there was bumff from like the casinos and mud slides and the gift shops and places where you could rent extra arms.

3 comments:

  1. Ohh, I read this book ages ago. I picked it up at the Brick Library. I remember really liking it - but it's been so long that I should read it again, haha.

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  2. I enjoyed Feed, love to hear what you think when you finish it ;)

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  3. I've not come across this. It sounds up my street.

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