Shelves: young-adult-fiction , swapped-or-given-away , read , scifi-dystopian-apocalyptic. This was a quite gripping piece of science fiction, right in the line of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, Mary E.
All of these titles tackle the question of what is really needed to make us human, what should be scrapped up and remolded, when large parts of our body or our mind are gone - if we can that is, of if there should be a physical limit to holding up our excitence here on earth, of if we are allowed to tamper This was a quite gripping piece of science fiction, right in the line of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, Mary E.
All of these titles tackle the question of what is really needed to make us human, what should be scrapped up and remolded, when large parts of our body or our mind are gone - if we can that is, of if there should be a physical limit to holding up our excitence here on earth, of if we are allowed to tamper with an organism that has officially already ceased to be and to try our hands at creating artificial intelligence that mimicks or copies the ones of actual persons, and finally, of if the new person - physical or digital - will be me when is has aquired my memories and my personality.
Robin Wasserman's approach to point out - not answer - these dilemmas is a very thrilling and emotional one. It resonated within me for a while this morning. Although the book ends on a cliffhanger, I do not need to rush out to get the sequel - which doesn't mean I would mind to read it eventually. I recommend "Skinned". View 1 comment. Aug 23, Carrie rated it liked it Shelves: library , post-apocalyptic , science-fiction , young-adult , 1st-in-a-series , dystopia , disfigured-injured-scarred-ill , annoying-characters , sisters.
May contain spoilers, cursing and ranting. When something bad happens to you, like an accident as what happened in this book to our main. It doesn't always mean death. If your brain is still working you can be downloaded into a new body.
Some people if they have enough credit can have one specialty made if there is enough time for it. But the thing is you are no longer human. You can't bleed, eat, breath. You can feel pain to a degree only with extreme actions. Hot and cold mean nothing. You can May contain spoilers, cursing and ranting. You can feel slightly but it's not the same. You don't need to bathe, brush your teeth or use the bathroom.
You're a machine that looks human and mentally you still are the same person but it's never the same. It was going so strong, so good. But then things started to stand out. Little things that annoyed me. Nothing major just certain wordings for example "eating lunch" but how is she exactly doing this?? She doesn't eat. She has no need to eat, she doesn't have a stomach. The author could have used the sentence, 'she spent her lunch hour'.
Like I said not major but annoying when it continued to come up. And fuck Zo why are you such a bitch, like seriously. I did not like Zo at all. There was never a momment where I went ok fine she's experenced this tragedy, but nope she's just a bitch.
Blargh end rant Edit: You know what Lia, the main character she's a bitch as well. If all this shit never went down and things were different or rather not different she'd still be a self centered bitch. OK now it's an end rant. Over all I did enjoy the concept and I'll continue on with the series, hopefully the characters start to be less annoying.
May 11, Kathy rated it liked it Shelves: read-in What in the world is up with Young Adult literature? The F word was all throughout this book and premarital sex was openly accepted, embraced and expected. I would never recommend this book to a young adult or an adult for that matter - not that I didn't enjoy the book or love the story but simply because of the language and sex in the book.
It's an interesting story full of interesting subject matter. I actually really enjoyed the story but I ju What in the world is up with Young Adult literature? I actually really enjoyed the story but I just wish Robin Wasserman would have cleaned it up so it was a more appropriate read that I could recommend without a huge disclaimer. I'm struggling what to rate this book.
It would be 4 stars if it weren't for the language and other things I don't like. I guess I'll go with 3 stars. Apr 29, Tandie rated it liked it Shelves: sci-fi , young-adult. A poor man's Cinder. Just okay. Apr 12, Melissa rated it did not like it. If I could have given this a negative I would. I know it's a bit harsh, and I understand that plenty of people like this book but it held nothing for me.
Foremost the book does offer the interesting debate 'what does it mean to be human' but honestly I have a hard time thinking that the same people who predetermine the entire genetic makeup of their children would really be so opposed to a body that you can choose the qaulities you want AND live forever.
The only thing that makes me understand w If I could have given this a negative I would. The only thing that makes me understand why Lia is such an outcast is that 1: she didn't get to choose her body which makes her look different etc 2: emotions n feelings are a bit off but i'm sure technology would fix that soon enough.
Also I understood by the first pages lia is an outcast n people treat her like a freak. The whole book doesn't need to be dedicated to confirming that fact. And not to mention after about the 8th potential or implied rape scene the author puts Lia through I was really just flat out irritated with the author.
I got it the first time around how the background characters feel about Lia. Let's move on. The author could have saved herself by actually having the character DO something instead of being miserable and whiney throughout the whole book. Basically save yourself and just read the synopsis and move on. You'll get a lot more than actually reading it.
Shelves: ya. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Aug 24, LilyCat Agent of SHIELD -- on hiatus : rated it it was ok Shelves: did-not-finish , dystopian , self-hating-heroine , boring , evil-christians , teenage-robots , woe-is-me-mc. I read about halfway through the book a few years ago and just couldn't finish it. I don't know why, it just lost my interest. Okay, so we have this girl who ends up being turned into a teenage robot and ostracized as a freak She's going to meet a hot mech dude, a geeky human dude who wants to go Mech, everyone who's human hates her guts, there's a boatload of evil Christian characters, but since the author is trying to be poli I read about halfway through the book a few years ago and just couldn't finish it.
She's going to meet a hot mech dude, a geeky human dude who wants to go Mech, everyone who's human hates her guts, there's a boatload of evil Christian characters, but since the author is trying to be politically correct, they're called "faithers" instead. So of course, Lia or whatever her name is, has to go all rebel, and let me guess, runs away from home to be with a mech rebellion or whatever.
Afterwards, I just dropped it. For whatever reason, it just bored me. I really liked The Adoration of Jenna Fox , so I guess I was predisposed to not really like this one based on the jacket description.
You can "download" instead. Problem is, Lia's quest for identity post-download and her questions about what makes people human just weren't drawn finely enoug Sigh. Problem is, Lia's quest for identity post-download and her questions about what makes people human just weren't drawn finely enough for me.
I guessed the ending, and most of the twists, well before they happened and ultimately, I didn't care. View 2 comments. Aug 11, TheBookSmugglers rated it liked it Shelves: women-in-scifi-fantasy-ya-and-mg. Full Review Link Lia Kahn is dead. I am Lia Kahn. Therefore — because this is a logic problem even a dimwitted child could solve — I am dead.
Lia Kahn had the world. She was beautiful, driven and smart. But then one day when she reluctantly agrees to cover for her underachieving sister Zoie at her job, Lia is in a freak car accident. Then, she wakes up. Lia knows that she has died. She can think but she cannot move her body or open her eyes or speak. She sees the extent of her injuries, and the face in the mirror looking back at her is not her own. When her family, friends, and boyfriend turn away from this new Lia skinner, she must come to terms with what has happened to her, and what she is.
Is she human or machine? Is she even Lia anymore? Skinned, narrated in the first person by Lia, is a tale of self-discovery at its heart. Dead and reborn, Lia struggles with big concepts — what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be Lia? This storyline lacks finesse, broadly retreading very familiar sci-fi territory. Too, at one point Lia argues with her track coach about those on the team with robotic body parts who are not discriminated against as Lia is.
Unfortunately, Ms. As a character, Lia is a spoiled princess brat. When she finds herself displaced from her position atop the social totem pole at school, however, Lia learns that there is more to life than setting fashion trends and going to parties, and she begins to tap her own unexplored emotional depth.
She questions whether or not she should try to be human or join the team of other skinners, embracing her differentness. Lia questions herself, her role in life, and most especially, her role in her family. Which brings me to my favorite part of Skinned — the volatile, rocky relationship between Lia and her younger sister Zo. When Lia returns from the hospital, she finds that her unmotivated and unpopular younger sister has usurped her throne of teen royalty at school.
Of all the characters in this book, Lia and Zo are the two standouts. I should also mention that Skinned is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel set in a version of the future where nuclear war has decimated the Middle East, and radiation and disease has claimed all of the major cities of the United States and presumably the world. The atmosphere is destroyed as the world is covered by constant gray clouds and plunged into cold.
A select few — those rich and influential enough — have escaped the cities and live out cushy lives in a futuristic version of suburbs; but the rest of the population scrounges in the ruins, mutated, hungry and without energy.
We get a few tantalizing glimpses at the ruinous cities, a taste of how those who grew up there have had to live, but I want so much more. Lia, however, wants nothing to do with Auden romantically. The usual yawn-inducing romantic shenanigans ensue. BUT — unlike other paranormal teen romances, however, these are very flawed characters, playing out some bitter roles.
Wasserman major kudos for that. And I am eager to see what happens in the next novel, Crashed. I eagerly await Crashed! Jan 18, Joey rated it it was ok.
Feb 26, Vibhuti rated it did not like it Shelves: so-terrible-i-couldn-t-even-finish. Okay, this book is confusing and boring. So boring that I'm not even going to bother finishing it. The beginning is kinda confusing and for the next couple hundred pages all the main character's doing is whining about her life as a machine.
I'm Okay, this book is confusing and boring. I'm not saying that the author's writing isn't good, because it is, but somehow, it isn't that great at the same time. I know that I shouldn't judge because I haven't finished it, but it just lost that initial spark it had in the beginning, and I didn't bother to finish it. View all 8 comments. Apr 17, Carolyn F. Lots of angst. And I don't know why view spoiler [the sister was responsible for the car wreck hide spoiler ].
I was too old for this book. If I were younger, I probably would have given it a higher rating. Via The Obsessive Bookseller at www. I've mentioned recently that I don't often reread books but sometimes it can't be helped when I want to continue on but there are too many things I've forgotten about the first book's it really irritates me when that happens — I guess I need to stop reading them before they're all released booknerdpro Via The Obsessive Bookseller at www.
I've mentioned recently that I don't often reread books but sometimes it can't be helped when I want to continue on but there are too many things I've forgotten about the first book's it really irritates me when that happens — I guess I need to stop reading them before they're all released booknerdproblems Anyway, because I was on a major dystopian kick this year and kept noticing them sitting pretty in hardcover on my shelves, I decided it was time to give them another go.
This reread was kind of an odd decision because I only mildly enjoyed Skinned the first time around. Here's the thing, this book is definitely not an "upper" by any stretch of the word, and I found it a difficult read because of the subject matter. There were a lot of elements that were raw, gritty and downright heart-wrenching, and I don't think my innocent eighteen-year-old self was quite equipped to handle it at the time.
This time around, however, I found it completely engrossing. Wasserman used strong imagery and sensations to really make me feel what Lia was going through. It was superb — I truly felt like I was getting dragged through the mud with the character. I have also learned a lot about writing since then, and can's now appreciate it for the beautiful piece of work that it is.
Lia, while not relatable in any way, was totally fascinating and I think that's why I liked reading about her. It amazed me how much I could be angry on her behalf even though a lot of her conflicts involved her reaping what she had sewn. There was just so many negative things thrown her way The book also had a lot of great futuristic world building. It was a somewhat cheeky nod to the parts of our society headed down dangerous paths sort of like the overweight people lounging around the spaceship in the movie WALL-E.
I liked that it wasn't totally unfeasible. In Lia's world it was clear that not all people led these extravagant lifestyles, just the privileged which left a lot of room for Wasserman to make it outrageous. It wasn't preachy by any means, but thought-provoking. Despite all of the positives, Skinned was still a depressing read. I plan to continue on in the series this time, but there'd better be some sort of silver lining somewhere in the second book or a might have to throw in the towel on the account of too much emotional turmoil.
Lia is now a "mech," known in derogatory slang as a "skinner. She can no longer enjoy the easy high of a b-mod, the ubiquitous mood-altering drug that gets the rest of her friends through lunch, and her boyfriend only touches her when he's drunk. She is kicked off her beloved cross-country team because the coach believes her new body gives her an unfair advantage over her competitors.
Religious extremists hold a protest when she returns home from the download operation, holding up signs that say "God made man. Who made YOU? Thoughtful readers, however, will recognize that the true tragedy is her self-imposed isolation, and that the world is much bigger and more brutal than the halls of one wealthy high school.
The book is written in snappy, short paragraphs with enough sarcasm, humor, and plot momentum to engage reluctant readers. All rights reserved. Wasserman creates a plausible future where advanced communication and entertainment technology enhance clothing as well as teen social life. Well composed and engaging, this is an obvious choice not only for Jenna fans but also for readers of Peter Dickinson and George Orwell.
Grades This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Summary: To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia's wealthy parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body. If you had never seen anything but mounds of lead, pieces of marble, stones, and pebbles, and you were presented with a beautiful windup watch and little automata that spoke, sang, played the flute, ate, and drank, such as those which dextrous artists now know how to make, what would you think of them, how would you judge them, before you examined the springs that made them move?
Would you not be led to believe that they had a soul like your own…? It sounded wrong. Muffled and tinny, but somehow, at the same time, too clear and too precise. Something pried open my eyes. The world was a kaleidoscope, shapes and colors spinning without pattern, without sense until, without warning, my eyes closed again, and there was nothing.
No pain, no sensation, no sense of whether I was lying down or standing up. I think, therefore I am , I thought with a wave of giddiness. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in Skinned may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
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Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to young adult, science fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:.
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