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A little me for me at the start, couldn't get into to it but then bam it took ahold.
From birth until you are 16 years of age you look the way you are meant to, ugly as they call it. Then sweet sixteen roles around and you are taken away and made "pretty", in otherwords you are made to be like everyone else. Not only are you physically beautiful but mentally your mind is changed, you've "grown-up".
Fantastic story, brilliant even. ...more
From birth until you are 16 years of age you look the way you are meant to, ugly as they call it. Then sweet sixteen roles around and you are taken away and made "pretty", in otherwords you are made to be like everyone else. Not only are you physically beautiful but mentally your mind is changed, you've "grown-up".
Fantastic story, brilliant even. ...more
Uglies are people under the age of 16 in a future dystopia posing as utopia. When they turn 16, they become Pretties - plastic surgeons modify them to look like the ideal of beauty (large eyes to convey vulnerability, tons of liposuction...). Tally's best friend turned 16 three months before she did, and he's whisked off to New Pretty Town. She's a rebel, flying her hoverboard over to New Pretty Town, to try to sneak in and meet him. Everyone is partying and vapid and gorgeous, and Peris is no d
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Not bad but I was left unconvinced by the romance plot line...seemed to happen without explanation or development. Some of the early "trick" scenes bugged me because it seemed like they were there because someone thought teenagers would like reading about skateboarding in the air rather than how it developed the story. Later I thought, oh, okay, so that's why that was there...but it annoyed me at the time.
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I liked this book but it did take me quite a long time to get into it.
I gave this four stars because I felt like when I started this book it seemed to be not terribly well written, however, I really got sucked into the story (and it has quite a cliffhanger ending), so I may have to go to the bookstore tomorrow to buy the next book. Overall, an enjoyable, quick read.
May 31, 2008
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