Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Teaser Tuesday with Uglies

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
I've heard a lot of good things about this book, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. A YA dystopian where everyone can have an operation when they turn sixteen to be beautiful. Some anti-social people decide not to have it and are banished into the wild. Interesting premise, but I haven't been able to get into it so far. Hopefully that will change as I keep reading.
Here's your teaser:
A shadow passed over her, blacking out the sky. Then her hand struck something - a familiar grippy surface.... (page 176)

10 comments:

  1. What is it?? Now I must know! Great teaser! Here's my teaser. Happy reading!

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  2. I've heard such good stuff about this series. Sorry you are having trouble getting into it. Hopefully it'll get better for you!

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  3. That is an interesting cover. Good teaser, too!
    Here's My Teaser!

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  4. hi! i couldn't get into it either ... although i did finish it. There's just so many better YA dystopian out there now...
    there's like 2 other books in this series -- i had not interest in reading them, i'd be curious to know if you pick them up after you finish this one!

    Trish - My Teaser Tuesday

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  5. Sorry you haven't been able to get into it.

    I like the teaser, but I'm put off by the word "grippy". Think I'm being picky, but what the heck is a "grippy" surface? Couldn't an actual adjective have been used to give the reader an idea of what it felt like?

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  6. Trish, I'm not going to pick up the other two. I'm forcing myself to finish the book, but I'm more skimming it now than actually reading it.

    C D, that word bothered me too. You'd think the editor could have suggested a better word choice.

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  7. Yeah, the "grippy surface" is weird. My sister did like the Uglies series. She read them a few years ago. I haven't read them yet, though.

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  8. Ah, this reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode, which is a good thing. After reaching a certain age every girl had her soul transfered into the perfect model. They all looked the same. :)

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  9. I really liked the Uglies series, although it lost me after Specials. I didn't read the fourth book.

    And thanks for stopping by my TT for Discord's Apple. Per your comment, I included a link to my review of the book in the comments.

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  10. Oddly enough, while I didn't particularly like Uglies, I loved the last book in the series, Specials.

    Great teaser!

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