First impressions of Feed

So my group is reading the book feed by M.T. Anderson. So far i think the book it terrible. I dont know if the people in the book are acting dumb for some reason or if the entire world is actually that stupid. There are these thing that are like boils but they can get as big as apples and they are like the sexiest thing to the people in this book. Instead of other things they just love it when the person has a big growth/boil it is disgusting. hopefully the book will bet better in a while, but so far im not impressed.