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Specials Uglies Trilogy Book 3 Scott Westerfeld Rodrigo Corral 9780689865404 Books

I remember when the Uglies series first began releasing when I was in high school. The shortened summary I saw in advertisements didn’t seem appealing. In fact, all I gathered was “a future where everyone receives and operation to become pretty and flawless.” That sounded boring to me. Not only that, but I never paid the series any attention. (apparently a friend tried to get me to read the series in college, but I don’t remember…maybe I’d already decided not to read it?) Regardless….back of the book summaries are apparently important. Anything I read about Uglies made me not think it sounded good and I was wrong.

That said, Pretties was a great addition to the world that was set up in Uglies. It basically picks up right where we left off in the first book, or rather, not long after. Tally and another manage to find the cure from the first book and the rest of the book is what ensues after that. There was never a dull moment, but I did get tired of the “pretty” language. I understand why it was there. It was just annoying with everything being “pretty making,” “bubbly,” and “bogus,” among other terms.

Either way, it was a great book and I’m ready to read more. I only wish I had read them earlier!


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Specials Uglies Trilogy Book 3 Scott Westerfeld Rodrigo Corral 9780689865404 Books Reviews

I'm laughing reading the reviews because I can see that the use of the word "bubbly" and "bogus" have severly annoyed people and I understand, but I actually didnt mind the terms.

I'm an adult reader but found myself doing an incredibly brain-missing thing yesterday and of course "brain-missing" was the term that jumped into my head! Now wasn't that totally bogus. Slang is funny that way...it kind of catches you thinking it or saying it without realizing it.

For the vapid nature of the characters and the degree to which they were just supposed to look pretty and not think or do anything more I could imagine their vocabulary would have words like bubbly in it to mean a plethora of things, depending on their whims. That really does make sense to me and I thought it was clever. Why expand your brain when you are pretty, just use a simple easy-to-reach-for word to cover what you want to say and expect others to understand, but even if they dont, they wont mind because you are so pretty they'll agree with whatever comes out of your mouth (e.g. "That's Hot" and we all know which "pretty" that one comes from). I get it, life's fun and it's time to go to the next party anyhow...(reminds me of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"...it's "time for a drink").

Okay...now to the things that bug me...
I know it's a book, but the whole operation thing was simply not plausable. I was thinking that it would come to be revealed that they were actually getting brain transplants or something because grinding bones down and re-seeding skin is a little bit far-fetched for me and I love sci-fi.

As with any post-apocolyptic world, a society is going to try to fix what it saw the errors with the previous society and come up with a new a better way of running things (like removing the desire to disagree and start wars), but then their society too has it's pros and cons, which is why books exist to stretch our minds...

Still not yet finished reading Pretties but I'm enjoying the ride and look forward to the rest of the books in the series.
I loved this book! I would definitely recommend this book to kids ages 11-15. The beginning contained a lot of action but the plot started out a little slow. It picked up speed as the storyline progressed. Also, the author focused on Zane most of the book, yet I found his character to be somewhat vague.
Westerfeld's writing is amazing; he adds a lot of his own thought and imaganation to the book. The world that the chracters live in is incredibly detailed and it definitely made me want to keep reading. I love how the ending keeps you thinking about whether the city is really evil with its madatory operations and how it manipulates everyone within its boundaries, or if they are just trying to prevent war with other cities.
This book is a must read! I can't wait to finish the series!
*May contain spoilers from Uglies*

I love the cover on this one too. The twinkle in the girl's eye draws me in. The tagline for this one is, "What happens when perfection isn't good enough?" This leads us to believe that life isn't as good for the "pretties" as the pre-16 year olds are lead to believe.

Once again, I really appreciated that Westerfeld addressed issues that are relevant to teens without being overly preachy. Superficiality is one of the main ones, but questioning authority and even questioning who you are is present throughout the book. *SPOILERS from Pretties* It becomes aware that even the pretties face societal issues when Peris makes the decision to go back to New Pretty Town instead of heading out into the wilderness and roughing it. He prefers to be blissfully unaware of the lesions on his brain and what they do. *END SPOILERS*

It was fun to see how the pretties live. I was overly intrigued with how and why the new pretties decided to alter their bodies for each new party or just because they felt like it. They get tattoos, put gems in their eyes and dye their skin. It is interesting that essentially these new pretties are perfect, yet they are still altering themselves to keep up with each new fad. It reminded me of the people who are addicted to plastic surgery. Tally even mentions that they are supposed to limit themselves to one transformation per week (I believe). Also, the pretties (especially in Tally's group) will starve themselves, do dangerous stunts and even some cut themselves all to feel the rush and coherence it gives them. This just screams teen behavior and is mostly dangerous behavior. The parallels to our world are often striking and thought provoking in this series.
I remember when the Uglies series first began releasing when I was in high school. The shortened summary I saw in advertisements didn’t seem appealing. In fact, all I gathered was “a future where everyone receives and operation to become pretty and flawless.” That sounded boring to me. Not only that, but I never paid the series any attention. (apparently a friend tried to get me to read the series in college, but I don’t remember…maybe I’d already decided not to read it?) Regardless….back of the book summaries are apparently important. Anything I read about Uglies made me not think it sounded good and I was wrong.

That said, Pretties was a great addition to the world that was set up in Uglies. It basically picks up right where we left off in the first book, or rather, not long after. Tally and another manage to find the cure from the first book and the rest of the book is what ensues after that. There was never a dull moment, but I did get tired of the “pretty” language. I understand why it was there. It was just annoying with everything being “pretty making,” “bubbly,” and “bogus,” among other terms.

Either way, it was a great book and I’m ready to read more. I only wish I had read them earlier!