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Title: Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
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| Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse Great! | With three months until Tally Youngblood turns sixteen, she sneaks into the pretties world to find her best friend. He is glad to see her but shocked that she is there. Uglies and pretties never mingle. She will return after her surgery to make her pretty and then they will resume their friendship. Emergency sirens and spotlights speed her exit from the perfect society. While waiting for her birthday, she meets Shay who shows her a world of blissful imperfections. Shay invites Tally to stay as she is and escape with her to a world where appearance is never seen as ugly.
I have to admit, I held off reading this because I thought it would be a new version of an old Twilight Zone episode. Although the initial concept is there, it does not follow the same plot line. UGLIES explores the depth of the pretty-making-process and the unseen damage that is within the realm of acceptable failure.
Mr. Westerfeld's writing is superb. The reader is swept into his world as if it were their own. The pace and timing are spot on with no sluggish moments and the tension builds perfectly.
Although UGLIES is set in a futuristic world, the setting is not far removed from reality. There is never a distanced and cold feeling, except when Tally jumps into an icy river. The characters are believable and enjoyable and portrayed as intelligent teenagers who still face the awkward transition into adulthood.
All elements for a good story are here and told in an enjoyable fashion. Scott Westerfeld has easily become my favorite YA author.
CarolASpradling.com author | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse The best book ever!!! | Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
Can you imagine a world where becoming supermodel beautiful was your sweet sixteen present? In Tally's world, before you turn sixteen, you are considered an ugly then when you turn sixteen you go through an operation to become a pretty, Tally can't wait for that day to come, but everything changes when she meets this girl named Shay and Tally's world is turned upside down. Shay does not want to become pretty, so she decides to runaway, and asks Tally if she wants to come with her. Now Tally faces a big decision that could change her life forever.
I loved this book, I couldn't put it down from the moment I started reading it. It was so descriptive that when I read the story it felt like I was seeing it through Tally's eyes. It was extremely interesting and visual. I loved that the book was about adventure, friendship and even a little love. Scott Westerfeld did a great job writing the realistic dialogue too. It was such an amazing book!
Uglies is grabbing and exciting. I recommend this book to anyone who loves adventure books, also people who love seeing the story unfold through the characters eyes.
Marisa T. | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse I though it would be more thought provoking and have a bit more substance to it | This is the first book in the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield. The book follows Tilly and Shay, two Uglies who are waiting to turn 16 so that they can get their operations and become Pretties. Pretties are all beautiful and get to live in New Pretty City where life is a party and beautiful all of the time. Everyone becomes a Pretty when they turn 16 without exception. While Tilly yearns to become a Pretty Shay wants to escape Uglyville to see what lies outside of the city. Shay is worried about the Pretty operation; what if more than just your appearance changes?
Does the above sound like a shallow premise for a story? Well it is kind of. Although it makes you think a little bit (and I mean a little bit) about what would happen if everyone was perfect and beautiful. Although the story really isn't about that and maybe if it talked more about that it might have some substance.
I realize being 30 I am not the main market for this young adult novel; but it seemed like surfacey and overused material for me. I think even young girls reading it will figure out what is going by the first chapter of the book. In tone it reminded me a little (tiny) bit of the Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher; except with young girls, and it was all about being pretty and identical, and humans actually have it pretty darn good, and there was a little love story, and I guess it's been about 15 years since I read the Tripods so maybe it wasn't all that similar. I really think it had a similar tone to it though.
By the end of the book I am still not sure if people being turned Pretty is all that horrible. I think you were supposed to think it is the worst thing in the world but I wasn't all that convinced.
All the above being said. The book was simply written, easy to read, a very quick read, and entertaining enough that I finished it. Given all I have heard about these novels I already purchased the next two so...I will probably read the next book in the series even though I am not all that enamored with it. It gets 3 stars for an "It's okay, I guess". It didn't offend me but it didn't work my mind or thrill me either.
karissabooks.blogspot.com | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse Great Sci Fi YA | | While I like fantasy, I really am not into sci-fi or futuristic kinds of books. I never would have even tried this book except it has been flying off the shelves at our school library. The story is about a futuristic society in which you are deemed ugly until 16 when you have a surgery to make you pretty. The main character, Tally, is coerced into spying on a group of rebels who live in a place called "The Smoke". She won't get to become pretty unless she agrees to do this. I was on the edge of my seat until the end of the book trying to figure out how Tally would get out of the mess she made. I was impressed by this story and would consider reading the rest of the series. | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse Uglies | | I purchased several copies of this book for a Book Club with my 6th grade class - they absolutely LOVED it, and everyone of them is trying to get ahold of the next book in the series, The Pretties. This is a great science fiction book, especially for girls. So many Sci-fi books are written for boys, but this book focuses on the future as well as what's important to so many girls today - the way they look. I truly believe that you should be a different person after you read something, and Westerfield has done an excellent job of changing the way readers look at technology, vanity, and the future. | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse Product Description | | Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever. | | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Simon Pulse Amazon.com | | Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider’s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell |
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