Specials

Scott Westerfeld

Review By: Sasha

This is kind of a spiler if u havent read pretties...

So this book, the final in the Uglies trilogy, takes place after tally has been turned into a special. Not only a special, but a special special, called a cutter. The horrible thing about this is that she enjoys being a special and can no longer be convinced that bad things are happening to the pretties (with the lesions and all). So the specials goal is to find the new smoke. So tally and shay free whatshisnamethattallylikes and follow him to the new smoke which is a whole city.

This is a great book which will have you on edge. During the whole book I was torn. Should she stay a special, be ugly, pretty, what! So its good. Read it.

Pretties

Scott Westerfeld

Review By: Sasha

This is the second book in the Uglies trilogy. This book takes place afterTally agrees to get turned pretty in order to test the drug that removes the lesion. Problem is, her new pretty boyfriend take one of the pills too. ANd gets sick!

This is a really great book. Quite upsetting with what happens to David. But after you read this, you'll really want to read the third one. Which I will review next.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Review By: Shelby

Heart of Darkness is a ridiculous story about a ridiculous guy who travels down the Congo River to meet some other ridiculous english guy who lives in a jungle. The first guy (Marlow) is telling his story on a boat, to some other boat-people who are ridiculous enough to listen to him. Anyway, after he tells about Africa, he tells about going to see Kurtz's (second guy's) fiancee, in Europe. She is ridiculous because she is still waiting for him.

Anyway, it was written by a ridiculous Pole who (ridiculously) thinks he is english. Chinua Achebe called him a racist so he must be.

It was an ok story i guess but you really had to read some parts over and over again before you get the slightest idea of what Marlow is talking about. We had to read it for the katabasis theme thingy. Reading Dorian Gray was my katabasis.

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Review By: Shelby

Anyway, Macbeth is a play about this scottish dude and some witches come up to him and they're like "hey Macbeth! You're gonna be king!" and so Macbeth thinks: Ok it's my fate... so i have to make it happen! like a dummy. So he kills the king.. and the princes flee, and Macbeth becomes king! but to keep his secret he has to kill a whole bunch of other people...

But Macbeth sucks as a king, and his wife, who was all evil before, is all weak and has gone crazy.

Then Macduff (yes another Mac... it's scotland) comes around with the old king's son, Malcolm. And they're like.. "no way man, Malcolm's supposed to be king! Macbeth's a tyrant!" so they pretty much overthrow him.

I know i gave it away but i'm just thinking probably everyone knows this story anyway. uhhhmm.....

some facts about this story:

It's really funny

When they give this play people aren't allowed to say Macbeth until it's over... it's bad luck

In Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson books, Georgia and her schoolmates are giving the play Macbeth. Since she can't say the name, in her diary (or whatever the hell it is) she calls it MacUseless. Which is funny, because it is.

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld

Review By: Sasha

This book takes place in a world after us modern humans nearly destory it. In this word, everyone is made pretty when they turn 16 because it lessens conflics. Or is it only te outside that matters?! (this makes sense only after you read the book)

So Tally is waiting to be pretty and meets Shay. Shay shows her fun stuff from the rusy era (our time). And then shay and tally get into an argument about shay saying she doesnt want to be pretty is childish and stuff. Then shay runs away to be ugly forever. And the Specials wont let Tally be pretty!

At first, i didnt want to read this book because I didnt want tally to stay ugly forever. I was afraid she would turn pretty. Then after what David's parents said, I was okay if she stayed ugly. But read it. The end is a cliff hanger. But its okay because there is a sequal.

It took me a while to get into the book but it's very good. Very good. I'll be reviews Pretties (the next book in the trilogy) in a few days. ^^