Feed

I only picked up Feed because I found out that it was written pseudononymously by a fantasy author whose short stories I've found very stirring. I should have known that my personal apathy towards zombie tales would overcome good writing and good storytelling. I think it's because I somehow consider zombies to be comedic fodder.

The only other thing that I could possibly complain about in Feed was the idea that bloggers would still be some newfangled illegitimate newsies thirty years in the future. I know I'm ahead of the curve, but blogs are old-hat to me. I get 99% of my news from Twitter and blogs, so how could bloggers fail to be mainstream that far into the future? Maybe that's one of the problems of writing near future fiction. By the time the book reaches the masses, your predictions for the future are actually already old news.

But, enough about me and my foibles.

If it weren't for me getting in the way of my own enjoyment, Feed was a neat story with a pretty cool take on the zombie origins. I think my favorite parts were the sections in between chapters where George and the other “After the End Times” crew had mini-articles. The tone and musings were really cool. And the twist that isn't a twist, that was great. I am not spoiling a damn thing, but that was great. I probably should have seen it coming, but I didn't and it got me but good.

Basically, if you like zombie stuff, this is one of the better zombie stories I've read. That said, I don't read much zombie fiction, so my opinion is probably useless. Sorry.

(I'd read some discussion of an incestuous relationship between the siblings, and I gotta say I didn't see that at all. George, especially, struck me as “merely” asexual.)