This book features a great concept--a future America where people have a computer chip implanted in their brain as a baby that allows them to shop, watch movies, listen to music, and privately chat to others. Titus is a typical teenager of this future, so caught up in his feed that he doesn't notice or even care when he does notice all the environmental problems and social unrest in the world. The book proceeds to show what happens when he starts dating Violet, a girl who does notice. Unfortunately, Titus instead of growing and changing just continues to do things to Violet that are progressively more and more jerky. He seems to lack most human emotion or empathy. Violet makes him uncomfortable, and he just wants to return to his feed cocoon. Perhaps that is Anderson's point--that the feed and consumerism dehumanize--but it read as a bit too sympathetic to a character as douchey as Titus for my true liking.
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