This book really seems to polarize people! It made me angry, and horrified, and sad, and I loved it. The whole time I was wondering if it was going to be about a person who never, ever "got" it -- who never saw the proverbial light (see also: The Coldest Winter Ever). I'm still not sure, but the ambiguity makes me desperate to discuss it. The scariest dystopias are always the ones that *could* happen, and this one is even closer to today's targeted ads and data mining than it was when it was published (hello, Facebook and face recognition software). (view spoiler)[ Violet's list? Titus and her father's final argument? Break my heart into a million pieces. (hide spoiler)] For such a vocabulary-reduced, slang-ridden world (shades of 1984), Anderson still managed to write some incredible visuals and dialogue. The audiobook was especially vivid, with the "feeds" performed as actual commercials, complete with music and jingles. They were invasive and pervasive, and made the feed experience all the more real. 
 "Then later there was this thing that hit hipsters. People were just stopping in their tracks frozen. At first, people thought it was another virus...but it turned out that it was something called Nostalgia Feedback. People had been getting nostalgia for fashions that were closer and closer to their own time, until finally people became nostalgic for the moment they were actually living in, and the feedback completely froze them." -p. 278