The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn...
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Aug 31, 2011
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!*
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Awesomesauce. It was really good. :] It started off a little confusing, but it had a very cool and sort of risky concept to it. By risky I mean that it could have failed epically; I see a lot of authors take on this kind of plot and then just sorta let it die, but Skinned pulled it off. Not only was it addicting and exciting, but it got me thinking too. There was more depth in it than I expected; it had a thought-provoking theme about identity, and what makes someone who they are – and not only
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Sep 15, 2008
Karin
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Lia shouldn’t have been in the car in the first place. By doing a favor for her sister, she has changed her life forever. A one in a million chance. The navigation system in her car malfunctioned and she crashed head on with another car. Her body broken - her skin burning, Lia waited for help. Unfortunately, her body didn’t survive the trauma of the accident. However, her brain remained in tact.
Lia wakes up several weeks later to find that she is alive. She has been downloade More...
Lia wakes up several weeks later to find that she is alive. She has been downloade More...
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Aug 08, 2008
Jennifer
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Lia Kahn was perfect. She had a perfect life, perfect friends, and a perfect boyfriend. She was popular and beautiful and everyone wanted to be with her and know her -- until the accident changed everything.
When Lia is in a fatal car accident, she finds herself awake in the hospital. She should be dead, but she knows she's alive. She can't feel her body, but she knows it's there. Lia has become the late More...
Lia Kahn was perfect. She had a perfect life, perfect friends, and a perfect boyfriend. She was popular and beautiful and everyone wanted to be with her and know her -- until the accident changed everything.
When Lia is in a fatal car accident, she finds herself awake in the hospital. She should be dead, but she knows she's alive. She can't feel her body, but she knows it's there. Lia has become the late More...
Feb 03, 2012
Wicked Incognito Now
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Okay. I'm not going to finish this book, but it isn't because I don't think it's a perfectly acceptable book. It is. The writing is actually very good, and the author presents a lot of interesting questions about what it means to be "human."
This author has a compelling voice and the novel reads a lot like a Scott Westerfeld novel. Even the paperback size and cover look like an Uglies novel. However, Westerfeld draws the reader in much faster with rising action and chara More...
This author has a compelling voice and the novel reads a lot like a Scott Westerfeld novel. Even the paperback size and cover look like an Uglies novel. However, Westerfeld draws the reader in much faster with rising action and chara More...
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Dec 08, 2011
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Nov 10, 2008
Diana
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It is a year of girls finding themselves in the wrong bodies. Wake by McMann features a girl who finds herself in others dreams, Airhead by Cabot features a down to earth girl who wakes up in the body of a supermodel after a deadly accident, and Switched by Snow features a strong swimmer landing in the body of a skinny, glamorous nanny.
Anyway, in Skinned Lia wakes up to discover that a mechanical malfunction caused the car she was riding in to to crash, killing her when she was on he More...
Anyway, in Skinned Lia wakes up to discover that a mechanical malfunction caused the car she was riding in to to crash, killing her when she was on he More...
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Dec 31, 2008
Laura
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Sep 28, 2008
Jamie
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Sometimes I'm really glad I read books I'm not sure I'll like. I was predisposed not to like this for two reasons, 1. It reads too similar to The Adoration of Jenna Fox and 2. I thought of the author as a series book writer (the 7 Deadly Sins)
At first, it seemed a rip off of other similar titles, but the more I read, the more I got sucked into Lia's story. I loved the character of Auden, his origin was believable, the ending is so shocking I literally got sick to my stomach. It's More...
At first, it seemed a rip off of other similar titles, but the more I read, the more I got sucked into Lia's story. I loved the character of Auden, his origin was believable, the ending is so shocking I literally got sick to my stomach. It's More...
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May 27, 2011
Sarah
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I just finished reading this book and, to be perfectly frank, it broke me. As in the same way that Life As We Knew It, Thirsty and especially Feed broke me. In my opinion, it's an exceptional story that deals with what it means to be human, which is cliché but true. The story is, at it's very basic level, quite simple. Lia's in an accident and she wakes up to find that she's not herself. She's sort of a cyborg (though the term is never used in the novel) with her own conscious. Her ability to lea
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Mar 29, 2009
earthy
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Interesting to read just after the dismally disappointing The Looking Glass Wars because here's another author's attempt at an awesome concept with mixed--but better--results.
The futuristic world in which our heroine Lia lives is full of technobabble and teenaged angst, but unlike in other new-world-centric novels, Wasserman doesn't waste the reader's time explaining concepts, but rather, throws you right in and expects you to keep up. Kudos for trusting that the reader has more tha More...
The futuristic world in which our heroine Lia lives is full of technobabble and teenaged angst, but unlike in other new-world-centric novels, Wasserman doesn't waste the reader's time explaining concepts, but rather, throws you right in and expects you to keep up. Kudos for trusting that the reader has more tha More...
Jan 15, 2009
Katie
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Lia Kahn had it all- popularity, money, & beauty. When her self-driving car malfunctioned, all that changed. Her body was so badly injured that there was only one thing that could be done to save her life. Her family opted to have her brain downloaded into an artificial body. She won't ever truly feel again. She can't really die. Lia resents being the newest recipient of the download process. The "skinners" are frowned upon in society and everyone, including her supposed best friends a
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Dec 30, 2008
edh
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***SPOILERS!!!***
Alongside recently published novels like Unwind and the Adoration of Jenna Fox, Skinned is about a teen who has lost control of her own body. After a horrific freak car accident, Lia's body is un-salvageable. Her parents give the order to have her brain downloaded into a computer and she's given a newly constructed body, made of artificial materials. Uber-religious folks hate the "skinners," and believe they have no souls once their brains are downloaded. Lia More...
Alongside recently published novels like Unwind and the Adoration of Jenna Fox, Skinned is about a teen who has lost control of her own body. After a horrific freak car accident, Lia's body is un-salvageable. Her parents give the order to have her brain downloaded into a computer and she's given a newly constructed body, made of artificial materials. Uber-religious folks hate the "skinners," and believe they have no souls once their brains are downloaded. Lia More...
Dec 11, 2008
Sara
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3.5 stars. I saw this book at a store and the plot intrigued me; I couldn't wait to read it: Lia, a girl in the future who is injured in an accident, has her mind transported to a new body that is impervious to pain and aging, but most people hate these new not-quite-human beings, and she is forced to try to find place to belong. Plus, the cover had a blurb from Scott Westerfeld! I figured this would be like his Uglies series - exciting, interesting, and addicting. Unfortunately, while this
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Jan 03, 2012
Tess
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Book review
Skinned is a dystopian society book it is written by Robin Wassermen I really enjoyed reading this book it is about Lia Khan she is a high school student how had a perfect life she was popular rich and she was pretty. Then she gets in a almost deadly car accident she was in the hospital for many months are leaning everything walk talking she was in a hole new body she was skinned which means she was a plastic body so she look almost the same and human but she was plastic e More...
Skinned is a dystopian society book it is written by Robin Wassermen I really enjoyed reading this book it is about Lia Khan she is a high school student how had a perfect life she was popular rich and she was pretty. Then she gets in a almost deadly car accident she was in the hospital for many months are leaning everything walk talking she was in a hole new body she was skinned which means she was a plastic body so she look almost the same and human but she was plastic e More...
Dec 04, 2011
Jessi
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Rezension vom 04.12.2011
Du bist tot und gleichzeitig lebst du weiter. Dein Körper ist eine Maschine aber deine Gedanken und Gefühle leben weiter. Sinne werden für dich simuliert und du bist gefangen in etwas das nicht mehr so aussieht wie du und sich auch nicht mehr so anfühlt. Aber du bist noch da.
Die Welt wie wir sie kennen gibt es nicht mehr. Die Städte sind verseucht und die Menschen die es sich leisten können sind aufs Land gezogen. Das Leben wird vom Netz bestimmt More...
Nov 03, 2011
Lothfleur
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Pour les références, ce livre m'a fait penser à Dollhouse, notamment l'épisode où les souvenirs d'une morte sont implantés dans la tête d'une doll car on retrouve le même fonctionnement dans Skinned, même si, dans ce cas, l'hôte est humain et non pas bionique... Puis il m'a rappelé Pretties pour le côté futur pas si beau, superficiel mais en beaucoup mieux (à mon avis!) parce qu'on se concentre plus sur les émotions, même si Lia est sensée ne plus en avoir.
C'est tout le paradoxe : elle More...
C'est tout le paradoxe : elle More...
Sep 17, 2011
Dine
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Lia Kahn ist tot ... und lebt trotzdem weiter ...
Bei einem Autounfall erleidet sie Verletzungen, die irreparabel sind. Als sie zu sich kommt, kann sie weder sprechen noch die Augen öffnen. Nur ihr Hörsinn ist noch intakt.
Nachdem einige Tests an ihr durchgeführt wurden, dämmert ihr langsam, wie schlimm ihre Verletzungen wirklich sind und was aus ihr geworden ist!
Da Lia in einer Zeit lebt, in der Knochen und Organe wie Ersatzteile ersetzt werden können, ist natürlich alles möglich.
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Bei einem Autounfall erleidet sie Verletzungen, die irreparabel sind. Als sie zu sich kommt, kann sie weder sprechen noch die Augen öffnen. Nur ihr Hörsinn ist noch intakt.
Nachdem einige Tests an ihr durchgeführt wurden, dämmert ihr langsam, wie schlimm ihre Verletzungen wirklich sind und was aus ihr geworden ist!
Da Lia in einer Zeit lebt, in der Knochen und Organe wie Ersatzteile ersetzt werden können, ist natürlich alles möglich.
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Aug 30, 2011
Claire
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I read this book in a single sitting, while the power was out due to Hurricane Irene, and I have to say, though I enjoyed it, it left me a bit wanting. The book is the story of Lia, a rich and popular teenage girl who is in an unlikely car accident, and wakes up from it in a mechanical body, which was the only way to save her life (or at least, her brain and memories). Of course, skinners, as they are known, are looked down upon as being not human, and she struggles in trying to regain her old l
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Jun 10, 2011
Emily
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Jun 05, 2011
Karen
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Set in the far distant future, after a nuclear war and the reorganization of human society, this is a story about what it takes to be a human being. Lia is the perfect daughter of one of the most powerful corporate leaders, and has spent her life with every privelege available. Her sister hates her for being perfect, as she is more of a disappointment to the family. Lia is in a terrible accident, and her father decides to have Lia "downloaded" into a new body: her brain is removed a
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May 18, 2011
Amelie
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I have to admit that I didn't like the beginning of the book. It was just totally different from what I'd expected looking at the cover. Because on the cover Lia looks like a fighter, so I'd expected a main character like Tally from Uglies or Katniss from The Hunger Games. And I was disappointed, that the author didn't use the whole potential of the conflicts.
What the short description doesn't reveal is: Lia Kahn IS dead. That's how it is! The story is described from the point of som More...
What the short description doesn't reveal is: Lia Kahn IS dead. That's how it is! The story is described from the point of som More...
Mar 02, 2011
Paula
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I cannot think of any set of sci fi sequels that have hooked me, but I think I am hooked on this one. Skinned so fits that stage of maturation (teens) of the development of a social conscience and personal values. It really hits hard at what society deems important and how superficial some of our values can become, and that is only the tip of the iceberg. Lia Kahn is "Miss Popularity" and a trend setter until she is not. Until the day of the accident. When she is on an errand for her s
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Jan 04, 2011
Amanda
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Nov 12, 2010
April (CSI:Librarian)
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Lia Kahn is dead, but that ends up just being the beginning when she gets downloaded into an artifical body/mech and returned to her "normal" life.
And if that sounds like an awesome idea for a novel? That's because it is an absolutely awesome idea. I literally could not put this book down.
It's really amazing how Wasserman turns Lia being made into a mech version of her former self into a sort of story any teenager can relate to about the bullying, isolation, an More...
And if that sounds like an awesome idea for a novel? That's because it is an absolutely awesome idea. I literally could not put this book down.
It's really amazing how Wasserman turns Lia being made into a mech version of her former self into a sort of story any teenager can relate to about the bullying, isolation, an More...
Aug 21, 2010
Lilly
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Lia Kahn was killed from a car accident, which left her parents no choice but to transfer her brain into another body, as hers was now unuseable. The boyd is like a robot, except it is designed to look and feel like a human. Naturally, when Lia wakes up, she finds herself shocked by who she really looks like.
Basically, this book is all about how Lia is trying to come to terms with who she has become and what she really is. She's not happy with who she is, and neither is her family.
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Basically, this book is all about how Lia is trying to come to terms with who she has become and what she really is. She's not happy with who she is, and neither is her family.
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Jul 06, 2010
Becky
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SKINNED was excellent. Very science-fiction; almost a cross between Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD and Mary Pearson's THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX (both of which are excellent books, by the way, though very different from each other). It's set at some unspecified time in the future when technology basically rules everything.
The fact that technology rules everything means that Lia's car should never have crashed. It should have taken her safely to her destination without Lia having to More...
The fact that technology rules everything means that Lia's car should never have crashed. It should have taken her safely to her destination without Lia having to More...
May 26, 2010
Sandra
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I read this book shortly after reading Chevy Stevens' Still Missing, and there are a lot of parallels between the two. Both were about the difficulty adapting to "normal" life after a horrific incident.
Skinned takes place in the future, and it tells a story of a girl who is in a terrible car accident. When her parents are told that there will be no way to save her body, they decide to use an experimental new procedure that involves her brain being mapped and downloaded into More...
Skinned takes place in the future, and it tells a story of a girl who is in a terrible car accident. When her parents are told that there will be no way to save her body, they decide to use an experimental new procedure that involves her brain being mapped and downloaded into More...
May 21, 2010
Margaryta
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This was recomended to me by one of my friends after she had read it and saw me reading the Uglies trilogy. So, following her advice (which I normally don't do) I went to my library to check this book out and began reading it.
This is way better than Uglies, I found. It is a very emotional, touching story which at some points I just find so hard to accept because the plotline is just so cruel of how these mechanical versions of people are not accepted. I also don't understand the way More...
This is way better than Uglies, I found. It is a very emotional, touching story which at some points I just find so hard to accept because the plotline is just so cruel of how these mechanical versions of people are not accepted. I also don't understand the way More...
May 11, 2010
Kerstin
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Lia Kahn ist reich, schön und beliebt – bis ein Unfall sie beinahe tötet. Im Krankenhaus wacht sie in einem perfekten, künstlichen Körper auf. Lia wird nie wieder Schmerz empfinden, sie wird nicht altern und nicht sterben. Doch der Preis dafür ist hoch: Ihre Freunde misstrauen ihr, ihr Freund betrügt sie und alles, was ihr wichtig war, wandelt sich in einen Albtraum. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Leben, das sie einmal kannte, und einer neuen, aufregenden Existenz, lernt More...
Lia Kahn ist reich, schön und beliebt – bis ein Unfall sie beinahe tötet. Im Krankenhaus wacht sie in einem perfekten, künstlichen Körper auf. Lia wird nie wieder Schmerz empfinden, sie wird nicht altern und nicht sterben. Doch der Preis dafür ist hoch: Ihre Freunde misstrauen ihr, ihr Freund betrügt sie und alles, was ihr wichtig war, wandelt sich in einen Albtraum. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Leben, das sie einmal kannte, und einer neuen, aufregenden Existenz, lernt More...
Mar 03, 2010
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