Titus is an average teenaged boy in an undefined future where everything one really needs to know is transmitted by a "feed," a digital chip in the limbic system. He and his friends decide to take a trip to the moon on spring break, and meet Violet, a girl who gradually challenges everything Titus values as their friendship grows, changes, and fades.

people who enjoy books where science fiction is a way of pointing out things in our culture which need to change. I was really reminded of Fahrenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange when I first picked it up.

It's rated as 14+ and definitely deals with some heavy issues like teen sexuality and drug use, as well as heady things like pollution and global politics.

the sense of humor this author has. With chapter titles like "Your Face is Not an Organ," you have to know that there are moments where this book is painfully, wrenchingly funny and equally poignant.

I also liked that the author doesn't always write everything the way the reader would expect them to be. Titus is a frighteningly 'real' guy in that he doesn't know how to deal with the things in his life that are changing. He does the wrong thing, more than once, and you cringe right along with him.

the ending. It was the right ending, but it broke my heart.

cry. And I did.

cautiously optimistic. Hopeful that the world isn't headed in this direction, but some of the speeches from the President of this future time are... well, very contemporary.

M.T. Anderson is a keen observer of the way people, and especially young people-- think and act.

I think that this book is important. I think that it's an interesting mirror on a culture that seems to value self destruction, and on what a hypothetical future might hold for humanity if we don't consider some of our actions now.

If you are someone who hates how chatpeak and text messaging have butchered the English language, the first few chapters of this book will horrify you. It requires the same sort of context clue translation as A Clockwork Orange does when you're first getting used to it.

This is one of the few books about an ambiguous future for humanity that takes a disturbingly different take-- and a very plausible one-- on the principle of having our every movement, thought, or wish, monitored by an anonymous force standing with power over us.

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