false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255574770m/24770.jpg 24770 17 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 2895388 book 8 2 2005 Uglies (Uglies, #1) total:21741|5:7140|4:8211|3:4876|2:1143|1:371| 21741 85829 30801 4362 5 33 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 14:18:17 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 26 16:52:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 13 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 16:22:01 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 26 14:13:36 -0700 2009 Scott Westerfeld down a dark alley, or during a Civil War reenactment, or at Charlton Heston's house, or whatever. My deep desire not to be arrested for murder would have an epic battle with my need to reach for a weapon when I see his stupid face. In all fairness, as you ...more...]]> 5 13 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 02 10:11:14 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 28 08:34:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 15 false true Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 18:21:42 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 07:55:02 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 16 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 14:44:30 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 07:24:11 -0700 2008
I'd read in an interview that it was mostly a financial decision--the YA market has exploded, and that...more...]]> 2 13 false false Mon Mar 10 16:02:48 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 16:05:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 10 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 14 06:52:55 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 24 22:12:55 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2 10 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 12:08:17 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 12:10:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 09 12:23:47 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 21 11:41:42 -0700 2008
Uglies tells the story of a post-apocalyptic dystopia where everyone gets ...more...]]> 2 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 20:15:25 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 20:16:40 -0700 2007
Better than The Secret Hour -- the speculative elements are a lot less perfunctory here -- but it still feels like Science Fictio...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 17:58:31 -0800 2008 Tue May 19 11:29:19 -0700 2009 Uglies

In a world of extreme beauty,
Anyone normal is ugly.

By Scott Westerfeld
426 pp. New York, NY
Simon Pulse. $6.99
ISBN 0-689-86538-4


Young Adult Book; A World With only Beautiful humans!

By JENISSE BOURET

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As an avid fan of YA and sci-fi novels, I can tell when one is good or bad. Uglies definantly falls into the ealier category. Not only does the book have sci-fi, it also has a good amount of action, comedy, romance and suspence. Even th...more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 17:32:20 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 17:42:18 -0800 2007
It's 1984 or Brave New World without all the really offensive stuff.
...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 12:49:44 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 08:34:06 -0700 2007 Uglies is undoubtedly my favorite so far. Set hundreds of years after Americans finally self-destruct at the hands of foreign oil dependency, Scott Westerfeld's future seems, at first glance, a neo-liberal paradise. All energy is clean and...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 01 07:33:37 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 20 07:36:31 -0800 2009
A very quick and enjoyable read making me want to read the next one in the series]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 07:38:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 07:56:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 15 11:02:48 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 11:02:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 10 13:06:53 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 19:26:41 -0800 2008
So, this isn’t exactly a masterpiece. But we knew that going in, didn’t we? Like I said, it’s teen fiction, and it wasn’t nominated for the Newbery or anything. Neverth...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Aug 19 14:09:51 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 14:10:06 -0700 2007
Uglies is about a certain Tally Youngblood who lives in a dystopic, futuristic world that is supposed to be us in the future, after we have almost ruined the earth with our oil and tree cutting. This is a purely secular book. But even as a Christian ...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 02:49:05 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 17:38:17 -0700 2008
Like someone else reviewed, this isn't the sort of book you go to when you want to read something brilliant. It is a beach read, something light and fluffy after you've tackled War and Peace. Maybe not even then.

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