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Have anyone read Uglies and Pretties books?
fabeme
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I just remembered these books and thought that our sims looks exactly like the pretty ones on this series. For those who do not know these titles, it is the story of a young girl who is a ugly one and who dream of the day when she will become a Pretty and go in the city where the pretties lives. When the children reach 16 years old, the are transformed in sublimes creatures without any defectuosity and become another person. Their new life starts. Impatient and before her transformation, she leave her city at night and go to the other one to spy the pretties... There, they are all throwing parties, acting stupid and living exactly like the Sims. I just remembered that...
Well, that is not the best description, but I'm French and it is hard for me to find the best words to describe the story... But still, what I wanted to say is : our sims are exactly like the Pretties in that story. Throwing parties, drinking and acting stupid. They also copulate everywhere and with everyone just like it is nothing. When they have kids, they don't really care because they are objects. They don't do anything with them (in the Sims, we don't have a lot of family interactions. In the books, parents ship their kids to the Uglies city and they are growing with a few visit of their parents, educated by others people and when they reach 16 years old (almost adult) they finally can be introduced to the new and true world : plastic surgery and let's go party with the grown up.)
So... I am the only one who find it similar?
Well, that is not the best description, but I'm French and it is hard for me to find the best words to describe the story... But still, what I wanted to say is : our sims are exactly like the Pretties in that story. Throwing parties, drinking and acting stupid. They also copulate everywhere and with everyone just like it is nothing. When they have kids, they don't really care because they are objects. They don't do anything with them (in the Sims, we don't have a lot of family interactions. In the books, parents ship their kids to the Uglies city and they are growing with a few visit of their parents, educated by others people and when they reach 16 years old (almost adult) they finally can be introduced to the new and true world : plastic surgery and let's go party with the grown up.)
So... I am the only one who find it similar?
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It's not so much a great book as it is weird. Do you want nano chips in your brain that determine what you do?
But, you're right OP, this book also came to my mind when I saw the EP release.
There are 4 books.
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
Extras.
Personally Uglies and Pretties are the best. I didn't like the others. What I described is a little part it the Uglies book, the one that made me think of the Sims.
Here is the description in Wikipedia :
Uglies is a 2005 science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a future post scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity, after her newfound friends Shay and David show her the downsides to becoming a "Pretty".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uglies?wprov=sfia1
OMG I did the exact same thing, but my friend read them all and in the end it all works out.
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i love all of them.... >_> XD
My Sims act so much like pretties, I find it really disturbing ahah!
The "world" was so much different of the first books. I found it hard to follow the last books because of this.