Part 1- Turning Pretty

[Angie, YA lovin mod!!]

Comment below after you are finished reading part 1.

[Angie, YA lovin mod!!]

I am really enjoying how Tally is learning about the other world... or the world outside the burbs where they actually see a roller-coaster. I think it is interesting to see that the new society is hiding things like this. Isn't this similar to what some countries today do? Not allowing their people to really know about the outside world. By doing this a society can control people better.

[Angie, YA lovin mod!!]

I think it's weird that there is no table of contents. More and more I am seeing that in books. I wonder why that is? What difference is it if there is one or there isn't. I prefer a table of contents myself. To see how far I am in a book, or just curious about what future chapters are called.

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I suppose it is a matter of preference to the author~ I recently read a book with a very long table of contents- with titles such as "Happy Birthday to me- NOT" and such. I was laughing before I started the book! However, in Uglies, I suppose the Mr. Westerfeld wanted the reader to jump right in!

[Ashley]

I just finished Part 1 and I am enjoying the book so far. My favorite part so far is the Rusty Ruins. I like how that in this world their history is a place where people were able to be themselves and there wasn't this programmed stuff to be pretty and perfect.

As far as table of contents go, I also prefer them. I just like to see how far I am in the book, how many chapters left until I finish the book , and I also like to try to decipher what will happen next in the story by guessing from the titles. The only time I see table of contents are in Non Fiction books and books like Harry Potter and Erec Rex.

[Lisa]

I finished part 1 and I am starting to get into the story. Everything seems so perfect in Tally's world but I read it and see how dangerous it is to give up your freedoms. The people are so brainwashed they don't even realize.
As for Table of Contents, I can take them or leave them. I like to look at them at the beginning to get an idea of the story.

[Katie]

I was a little skeptical beginning the novel as to whether or not I would like the book. However, after having finished part 1 I am really enjoying the story. I really like novels, young adult or otherwise, that get readers to think about and question their society and what they accept as normal around them and I think this book does that very well.

[Ashley]

I totally agree with you Katie. This book does make one question certain things in society for example judging someone by their looks, or doing what "everyone" else does. I think this book or the whole series should be required reading in schools plus I think kids would like reading something like this in class. It is contemporary and it is something they can relate to and something they will have lots to say about.

[Terri]

The whole concept that by making them "pretty" they will be more successful is so short sighted. And the discarded past gets rid of the good as well as the bad.