From: Martha Weston <martha>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:37:38 -0800

A person has to be pretty ready to write when these digests come in and I'm a few days behind! So I will say that I am definitely in agreement with Richie Partington, Leda Schubert and Sheila Welch.

I thought Feed was excellent. Not an easy read, but I loved feeling almost forced into this well-constructed world. I found it to be excruciatingly compelling and frighteningly possible and decidedly for older teens and adults. That there wasn't any redemption at the end for Titus or Violet was depressing, and I would have loved her to have lived and beat the system and for him to have made some greater consciousness progress. BUT the ending was completely believable. Titus could not be a hero. He was crippled by his family, his culture and the feed. As frustrated as I was by his inability to be articulate in his thoughts, much less his words, that's where the story was a tragedy -- that he couldn't ever really become a conscious person.

I enjoyed Scorpion, although I found the ending too tidy, but can't really compare it to Feed, since I felt it was for a younger audience. I wonder what purpose the character of Tom served. He was duplicitous and vicious, but why? He never went anywhere as a character later in the book even though so much was invested in him early on.

I agree Scorpion was a good read, but I didn't think about it after I was finished. Feed continues to haunt me.

Martha

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Received on Mon 20 Jan 2003 04:37:38 PM CST