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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781416947950
ISBN number: 0439025664
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 11, 2007
Publishing house: Simon Pulse
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 22163
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'Special Circumstances':
The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumour -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.
And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.
Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
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As I was reading the final chapter in the Uglies Trilogy "Specials", a rather glaringly large flaw in logic kept me from enjoying it.
Now let me very first say that I am not an environmental alarmist as the author clearly is. I don't really believe that we as a society are headed toward certain doom if we don't adopt wind farms and hybrid cars and stop eating beef. However, if the historical facts that are clearly and repeatedly emphasized in the story are correct, then DR. CABLE WAS RIGHT. Having complete free will inevitably and inexorably leads to the destruction of the planet.
Now I know that the author's target audience is teenagers, a group who may be appalled at the idea of curtailing independent thought and freedom of self-expression at *any* cost. But when you put that on the scale against THE END OF THE WORLD, which is the more important issue? Which is the more valuable to preserve? When you really evaluate the lesions vs. the destruction of the planet, which is ultimately worse? The lesions don't even change what fundamentally make you *You*. Tally proved that time and again. They simply remove the worst of the human psyche.
So as David and the rest of the New Smokies went about self-righteously shoving enlightenment down everyone's throats, I couldn't help but wonder what this meant for the planet as a whole. But then Westerfield tied himself into knots in order to have his cake and eat it too (i.e. have free will AND a healthy planet) with Tally's Manifesto. Even if the author made Tally into Superman, complete with supersonic flight and impervious body, it wouldn't be enough to hold the line against millions upon millions of newly awakened pretties now demanding more space and more resources and all the things that led to the Rusties ignoble end.
Although I did enjoy the plentiful action and drama in the book, I simply couldn't help but laugh at its ridiculous resolution.
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What I really liked about the series is that the main character is "real", meaning that Tally is just an ordinary girl who makes mistakes, and faces complicated situations that change her life completely, she comfronts everyone of them step by step. The ending wasn't just a typical happily ever after, but an insteresting one, different. It's really worth reading them all, it might even change the way we think of ourselfs and people. What really matters is how we are from the inside, not the way we look. I highly recomend it.
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This whole series is wonderful and very addicting! Even though these books were written for young readers they are very entertaining for an older audience as well. The author has created a whole new world that you very quickly become absorded in. I highly recommend this series!
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Specials (The Uglies)
Personally I loved this book. It was very intense and kept you on your toes at all times. Scott Westerfield did a great job of illustrating mental images. If you loved the very first two books then your bound to love the third one!
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I loved the very first book in the Uglies trilogy, but the last 2 were mediocre at best. Hoverboard adventures don't work anymore. "Pretty" talk is old already. And I didn't care for the glamorized self-cutting that helped the Pretties think more clearly. The only new things here are Pretties turning into Specials and the sneak suits that change colors and textures based on your surroundings.
There were also very few pages where storyline was interesting enough to slow down and read rath...more I loved the very first book in the Uglies trilogy, but the last 2 were mediocre at best. Hoverboard adventures don't work anymore. "Pretty" talk is old already. And I didn't care for the glamorized self-cutting that helped the Pretties think more clearly. The only new things here are Pretties turning into Specials and the sneak suits that change colors and textures based on your surroundings.
There were also very few pages where storyline was interesting enough to slow down and read rather than skim boring conversation and contrived action sequences.
I disliked Shay as much as ever, but suddenly Tally was just as despicable. I had a hard time believing Tally was even the same lucid character as before. All the likable characters from past 2 books had been boiled down to characters with very little personality. When one of them died, I didn't even care.
I can't see myself wasting money on the 4th book in the series
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