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Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780689865381
ISBN: 0689865384
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 08, 2005
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Simon Pulse
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Editorial Review:
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
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - ...
Welcome to a world 300 years in the future. A world where everyone gets to be beautiful when they turn 16, at that age you undergo an operation that "turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty." You live in a beautiful party mansion in New Pretty Town with other Pretties and have all the fun you want; and Tally Youngblood will be there in a few short weeks.
Tally's friend Shay isn't so sure she wants to become pretty and runs away to live in the wild. Doing so ... Read More
Rating:  - not just for teens...
I am an 8th grade teacher and several of my students begged me to read this book to them during homeroom so I agreed. It did not take long for me to get just as hooked on this story as my students were as it is an incredible story. The writing is incredible and Westerfeld masterfully paints vivid pictures of this futuristic society.
The only thing that I hated was that nobody told me that this was book 1 of a trilogy. When I finished reading the book to my students literally the last ... Read More
Rating: - Logan's Run meets The Real Life
I picked this up after reading recommendations by other SF authors, like Cory Doctorow. I'm way out of the target demographic for this book (being a middle-aged man) and, I'll have to admit, it's something I might be a little embarrassed reading in public due to the cover and obvious target audience, but I'd still heartily recommend it (and the rest of the series) to just about anyone of any age or sex. The book's cover and blurbs kinda hide the fact that this is pure, good SF - lots of action, intriguing ... Read More
Rating: - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
When I first picked up this book, I thought the premise was very intriguing. A world full of beautiful people sounds like Heaven. But as I got into the book more and more, it sounded more like you know where! It took me a few chapters to really become engrossed in the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I was waiting for all the excitement to start happening. The story is based around Tally Youngblood, an ugly about to turn pretty. She meets Shay, an ugly that doesn't want to turn pretty. Shay runs away ... Read More
Rating:  - Being Pretty isn't All Good
Mr. Westerfeld has established a very good reputation as a writer of imaginative and engrossing YA science fiction, and this book is a prime example of how he has earned that reputation.
The palette for this book is a society that has declared that everyone must be pretty, and achieves that goal through a set of medical operations at age sixteen, so that no one will end up with the misfortune of having less than stellar looks, thereby eliminating many of the conflicts associated with people who ... Read More
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