Science Fiction.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML:The third installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies seriesâ??a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.
Still, it's easy to tune that outâ??until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the… (plus d'informations)
Specials is part parable of life as an adolescent struggling to define your identity in a conformist world; part dark and unflinching look at the very real mental disorders that this impossible circumstance visits upon many young people.
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To all the fans who've written me about this series. Thanks for telling me what was right, what was wrong, and which bits made you throw the book across the room. (You know who you are.)
Premiers mots
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The six hoverboards slipped among the trees with the lightning grace of playing cards thrown flat and spinning.
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Part II: Tracking Zane
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
- Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
Part III: Unmaking War
One faces the future with one's past.
- Pearl S. Buck
Derniers mots
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Be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
Science Fiction.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML:The third installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies seriesâ??a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.
Still, it's easy to tune that outâ??until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the
On découvre avec cet épisode une nouvelle facette de Tally Youngblood et le lecteur passe de l'énervement au partage de vue lorsqu'elle donne son opinion de "Spécials". Les lignes sont plus floues et la situation moins manichéenne. Les retournements de situation sont bien vus jusqu'à la dernière page mais je considère que l'épilogue final est bien en retrait de ce que l'on pouvait attendre. Alors que tout ce volume traite du problème politique de la chute d'une dictature, l'auteur semble de pas adhérer au contrôle démocratique qui semble se dessiner et montre le besoin de mettre des gardiens d'un nouveau type, cela en cédant à une mode écolo-inquisitoriale très désagréable.
Cela étant, ce livre est correctement écrit et traduit, même si j'ai remarqué plusieurs fautes. Ce n'est pas de la haute volée littéraire mais le lecteur sait qu'il est là pour suivre une action plus que la saveur des mots et des phrases. ( )