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Title: Extras (The Uglies)
ISBN: 1416951172
Author:
Scott Westerfeld
Publicate Date: 2007-10-02
Publish: 2007-10-02
List Price: $16.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Just as good as the others
I love all of Scott's books because I always end up learning so much from them.
Extras is no different. We get a society who is obsessed with fame, so much that they have hovercams following them around all over the place.
The main character is no Tally Youngblood, but I liked her a lot and as usual, I love the things in the Uglies world, like their slang and all their cool technology.
We get to see Tally again after three years, so that was cool, too.
If you liked the Uglies series, you should read this book.
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2: Different Place, Different Time, Still Great
Just as well written and adventure filled as the first three, Extras takes place a few years after the trilogy, and takes place in Japan in the new post-syrgery world. In this new world everyone has a video camera on them all the time, and popularity is ranked down to the last person. Looking for glory, our heroine finds a bit more than she bargained for, throwing her into Tally Youngblood's world.
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3: My Review for Extras
Extras was a fanatastic book, and produced quite a few surprises. First of all, i was expecting the book to be in the point of view of Tally Youngblood, but it was featuring Aya Fuse, a young girl with no popularity, which basically dictates your life in the world after the mind rain. She struggles to find some way to make herself famous. (though many people complain that she was too obsessed with fame, how many of us can say we wouldn't if success was based on your rank?)
Aya discovered a group of girls that will do crazy stunts for fun, all in secret. When Aya is about to burst and tell, she discovers something even more frightening, a group of missiles, that could launch metal at cities and make humans go extinct. With her older brother, and a famous boy who is sweet on her, she travels around with Tally Youngblood, trying to solve a mystery which might just threaten the world.
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4: Disappointment
If you're looking for something like Uglies this isn't it. I felt as though it had written by a different author!
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5: not as great book, good time passer
the few objections to the book i have is this:
1.aya can be very annoying. she is obsessed with fame in a way that wildly surpasses tally's obsession with being a "pretty" in the book uglies.
2.aya is simply not as interesting a character as tally, or even shay. i would have enjoyed a book more that was about tally and more tally. she has developed, struggled, failed, and won, and she is a really fascinating character in this book. i wanted to know what was going on in her head.
3.now that i think about it, this book does have a pretty boring ending, but it wasn't bad or anything. the whole book was so confusing and unexpected that it was a bit of a relief for things to go back to normal(as normal as they can be in aya's world.
4.i didn't love the characters. the books before? i loved them. they fascinated and frustrated me to no end. the ones i didn't love in the former books were still pretty cool to watch. this book left me still loving the older charasters, but not the new ones. i didn't hate them, but they weren't as powerful.
my commendations:
1.it was kinda interesting to see tally and shay and david from the outside. tally is a lot more insane then i realized.
2.plot was cool, in some ways. the adventuresome girls in this novel that aya plans to publish are pretty darn cool.
3.i've already said it partially, but the parts with tally in them are still the most interesting.
so it kinda was cool, but it didn't spellbind me. don't get me wrong, most readers will be so dazzled they will LOVE it at first, like i did. and it was a good book. i don't think you should avoid all "add-ons", especially not this one. it won't screw up tally's story (and make you wanna forget you read it beacause it ended wrong like some last books in series). read it, like it, and then go reread pretties or uglies so you can make up for the lack of true character struggle or characters that you care enough about to wait through their struggle.
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