Messages with a pinch of plot

After reading 50 or so pages of Little Brother, it became painfully obvious that the plot was not nearly as important as the message that was trying to be drilled into the reader. Throughout the novel I felt annoyed and alienated when it came to the preachiness of its politics even when I agreed with what it was saying. I really don’t see why any young adults would like this novel as I know when I was a young adult I hated things that tried to preach to me and treated me like I was too stupid to figure something out if I wasn’t beaten over the head with it. The desire to force feed this message I feel ruined the plot which could have been much better if it was hidden in a creative story instead of written out and connected with a somewhat interesting plot. While reading it, I kept thinking about the movie “Brazil” which basically tries to convey the same message as Little Brother but succeeds while being entertaining and not overly obvious. I would really worry about young adults being forced to read something like this in school because someone thinks they could gain an understanding of current events through it and they feel it is so relatable to young people because it has technology in it. Instead young adults might just be put off by its preachiness and drawn out plot. Teenagers are much more socially aware than this book thinks they are.