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Sto caricando le informazioni... Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) (edizione 2010)di Mira Grant
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I'd never really been into the zombie apocalypse genre in general, but I decided to give Feed a go because I love reading Mira/Seanan's blog and I love her other writing (e.g. [b:Rosemary and Rue|6294549|Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)|Seanan McGuire|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xZgCAG9VL._SL75_.jpg|6478937]). Well, I was very quickly converted. As a longtime LiveJournal user, I'm very familiar with the concept of blogging, and the blend of that style of journalism, plus the politics, plus the crazy action scenes, made for an absolutely wonderful read. The characters are well fleshed out (sorry) and it's easy to find someone in there to empathise with. I've just finished reading [b:Deadline|10047818|Deadline|Mira Grant|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mHdK0hhaL._SL75_.jpg|13292985] as well, which I'll refrain from spoiling here, save to remark that it is an incredibly strong follow up to Feed. Read it. You'll laugh, you'll cry (oh gods, you will cry), it'll change your life. Rise up while you can.
Set more than two decades after an uprising of the living dead, Feed uses meticulous world-building to shape a narrative that’s believable, thrilling, and instantly clear. Shunning misogynistic horror tropes in favor of genuine drama and pure creepiness, McGuire has crafted a masterpiece of suspense with engaging, appealing characters who conduct a soul-shredding examination of what's true and what's reported. È contenuto inPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Nor, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will come out, even if it kills them. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The story centres on a group of professional news bloggers who are invited to cover the campaign of a senator who is fighting for nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. In this terrible time of Trump, the fact that Senator Ryman espoused sane and sensible political positions required a much greater suspension of disbelief than anything to do with zombies. Nonetheless, I found the politics of a zombie-infested world very interesting. I don’t know enough about the media to determine whether the news bloggers were genuinely plausible, but they seemed so to me. It certainly seems feasible these days for a small group of ‘content providers’ to build a brand outside the mainstream media juggernauts. It is made clear in the novel that asking bloggers to cover his campaign is an innovative thing for the senator to do, with the aim of increasing his youth appeal. The main characters, Georgia and Shaun, are siblings and both devoted to journalism. Their perspectives convey quite neatly that everyone in their world is traumatised by the constant risk of horrible death; their response to it is fairly extreme codependence. The crushing fear of zombie outbreaks is made an explicit allegory of terrorism, both in the novel and the author interview included at the end. It’s a thought-provoking link to draw, especially in terms of risk tolerance, at an individual and societal level. The America of 'Feed' is a highly regulated one.
And now massive spoilers, so avoid if you haven’t read the book.
I think Grant balances action, world-building, and character development adroitly in ‘Feed’. The tone of the blog post quotes seemed rather lacking in irony, something that social media (or maybe just the social media I read?) is suffused with. Nonetheless, the novel is a pretty thoughtful examination of terror and journalism, using zombies as a narrative conceit rather than an excuse for gross-out horror. On balance I still prefer [b:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386328204s/8908.jpg|817], as the documentary format gives such an international perspective. On the other hand, by concentrating on a small cast ‘Feed’ manages greater emotional impact. ( )