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Extras (Uglies)
by: Scott Westerfeld

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781416951179
ISBN: 1416951172
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 02, 2007
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Sales Rank: 2214
Studio: Simon Pulse

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Fame

It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. 'Tech-heads' flaunt their latest gadgets, 'kickers' spread gossip and trends, and 'surge monkeys' are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of American Idol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules.

As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself.

Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.

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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 ... Read More

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