Booktalk

I chose to do the book Extras, mainly because I liked it...not because it was the most recent book I had read at the time. *cough*.

I designed it to be as if you were using your own eye screen to search information and watch feeds. This was done as a school project, with a first person view, searching up information and feeds through their eyescreen. The genre is mostly sci-fi and society (in my opinion).

I couldn't add many quotes but one, in Aya's feed. So...I'll add some here. :D

"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things." -Tally Youngblood

"Fame wasn't like beauty, where you had to wait till you were sixteen, or get lucky like Nana Love and be born with it. Fame you could make yourself." -Aya Fuse

"No, Frizz. It says, 'Run and hide. We're on our way.'" -Aya Fuse

"...but people kept rewiring us, manipulating us to betray each other." -Tally Youngblood

'Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame
is the axman of further dismemberment' -Leo Braudy

'Reputation is an idle and most false imposition;
oft got without merit,
and lost without deserving' -Othello (Iago, Act ll, scene iii)

Genre: Sci-fi, action

Page number: 417 pages

Scott Westerfeld: Author of the Uglies series as well as the Peeps series and The Midnighters. Check his Westerblog at the following link: http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/

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[lemondaurora]

-starts singing Banana Phone-

[xkcdgal]

you spelled surge wrong, but other than that, very nice!

HOW DO ALL THESE PEOPLE THINK ITS IN AMERICA? i think that it actually states its in japan, but other than that why else would they speak JAPANESE?

[magicpeelp50]

i know xkcdgal , it's annoying...

p.s

lemondaroura,

i like the eyscreen idea!! also , where did you get the fox image for aya's feed? cute!

NB:what are theose types of smileys called again?

thanks for listening, i loved the vid!

[DanceFriendsUnicorns]

This was a nicely done video; You live were my aunt', uncle, and cusin live; Tokyo.

[UrKissWasYummy]

ohmygod! i cant belive it! its so cool you used a Katamri song(: i wuv you for that!!

it sucks i dont understand any of this though..cause i have'nt read Extras. I'm just starting Specials. I love it though! p.s. im "all japanese"lover!

[FramedGraffiti]

THIS IS AWESOME! I am /so/ making this a favorite!!!

Loved this book, as well. :D

[questionmark682]

The fourth book actually does take place in japan. Everyone speaks japanese in it and all the ppl in the book are asain, except of course for tally. Why do you think all the names in Extras sound like that? Aya, Hiro? And the girl on the cover of the book is asain as well.

[tiffyd123]

i liked this.

he is one of my favorite authors.

and i love this series.

:)

[nudge1235]

The book so does take place in Japan.

[SaffaWaffa]

I'm sorry to break it to you, but it does indeed take place in Japan, not in America. Tally's stories in the other three books took place in America. Not only does it say that it takes place in Japan in the book, but here's a wiki referance: "The story is set in Japan. The city functions with a unique economy, one based on popularity." Search Extras Scott Westerfeld wiki on google.

[ducetbomb]

The book does not take place in Japan it takes place in America. Other then the location you got most of it correct. Good job this is the first one I seen about Extras.