6/21/2023 0 Comments Feed mt anderson book reviewHe's even made this vapid kid a bit sympathetic, as a product of his society who dimly knows something is missing in his head. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment-even on trips to Mars and the moon-and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.Īnderson gives us this world through the voice of a boy who, like everyone around him, is almost completely inarticulate, whose vocabulary, in a dead-on parody of the worst teenspeak, depends heavily on three words: "like," "thing," and the second most common English obscenity. This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies.
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