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Massimo Righetti maxibond — Uglies is a look into a dystopian society, where children, at age sixteen, are made "pretty", supposedly the highest aspiration for a child to become. Pretties get to spend all day being vacuous, uninteresting party boys and girls, drifting through life drinking, carousing, and doing nothing with their time. Sound appealing? Perhaps to a certain type of teenager it might, but it never would have appealed to me, even at the age this book is aimed. Tally is a thoroughly unpleasant protagonist, shallow at the beginning and wanting nothing more than to be a "pretty", not even enjoying the fact that as an ugly, she has her own faculties, freedom, and individualist looks. She is willing to betray a good friend all to become pretty (which shows just how strong her loyalty is) and therefore, follows her friend, who has fled Uglyville in order to escape the pretty operation. Tally fears being found out and, if anyone in Smokes had half a brain, perhaps it wouldn't have taken them almost the entire book to realize she was a spy. (And these are the people without the brain lesions, mind you...) In general, the characterization was flat and uninteresting, the characters not compelling or intriguing, and nothing within the book made me particularly care what happened as an outcome. It reminded me of a Stephenie Meyer book...except I prefer Stephenie Meyer to this, which should tell you something about the quality of the book. It is highly predictable- why else would "Special Circumstances" give her a tracking necklace if they didn't eventually plan to use it? How could they have depended on a sixteen year old to keep her word? Tally vacillates between her own selfish desires and realizing, suddenly, how much her selfishness could and does cost her. People died because she wanted to be pretty. She seems like she regrets her actions, but, like everything else in the book, her opinions seem superficial. Did she change? Perhaps. The end of the book suggests all her character development was for nothing, to become "pretty". Was it worth it? Only the brain lesions know for sure. While we're on the subject, although getting the operation seems like something you don't want to do, it also has some beneficial qualities. So why would you fight to prevent it if not everything about it is bad? It felt like things were very uneven in this book, without things being fully explained, and then we're left with a 'pretty' Tally, vacuous as she'd wanted to be.

Gustavo Roa groa — This is certainly a strange book (and it was taught to me by a super-strange teacher), but as I read it through several times, I understood why people are fascinated by it. The story at first seems relatively ordinary, but little by little the reader starts to get the feeling that it isn't the story that matters here. I read it in French and have never seen the English translation, but I suspect a translation can't really do this one justice...