Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.
When my husband read it, he said that he was surprised that they weren't a couple, given the general codependency, etc. that they had. Add that to the general suspicion about co-ed rooms that society today has (and the post-Rising society may share), and the oddness that siblings of the opposite gender would share a room, and you get the negative responses.
The idea that they lost everything before they were even old enough to know they'd lost everything, plus having parents who were in name only meant that they had nothing but each other, and they cleaved to that mightily.
May 18 2010, 08:42:18 UTC 7 years ago
(At least, that's how I saw it. YMMV.)
May 18 2010, 16:06:20 UTC 7 years ago
The idea that they lost everything before they were even old enough to know they'd lost everything, plus having parents who were in name only meant that they had nothing but each other, and they cleaved to that mightily.