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Ads R Us (2000)

by Claire Carmichael(Favorite Author)

2.61 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Not worth the effort, money, time or paper it's printed on. I'd give it no stars if Good Reads allowed.★☆☆☆☆Spoilers follow in a very raw review:A painfully dull excuse of a novel that I am grateful to never have to read another word from.Right from Chapter One the ending was predictable. Everything was forced as if the book was trying to advertise it's self; a topic the author was trying to warn us against. Q-plague, Eva, Kara, Adrian, senator Maynard Rox, ADA.Cue Kill was shoved into the ads Barrett happens to observe on his way to markets and school which later on took on a major part of the plot. Because that's not predictable nor obviously going to have an affect on the story. Taylor started out irritating and a clone of everyone in her world but eventually... more she branched out to seem an individual. Barrett had no personality, none of his own opinions (all of his opinions were from his uncle). He was violent and refused to even attempt to comprehend the technology of the World he had been bought into. Barrett was still a sheep, just of different stock.Ads R Us was "so dire" as Taylor would have put it.
review 2: Can I give it 0 stars?This book has got completely ridiculous caricatures for characters. Taylor is a teenage girl, so of course the author portrays that by giving her stupid lines, continual use of colloquialisms and (heavy) sprinkles of the word 'like' in her speech. Taylor is drawn to be an insensitive, shallow, judgemental and narrow-minded idiot. Barrett is, of course, the opposite, an understanding, patient, forgiving, muscular and good-looking boy. Taylor's mother is a demanding bully who doesn't tolerate anyone questioning her authority, and Taylor's daddy is wrapped around Taylor's little finger.So the characters suck.The storyline is insulting to the reader's intelligence. There are far too many good dystopian novels out there for heavy-handed crap like this to be force-fed to so many students in our schools. The story is too simple and blunt to be read by students in high school, yet the drug content and language make it unsuitable for primary school students.(Unless we're assuming that our high school students are so dumb that this is what they could cope with, instead of, say, 1984, which is still relevant. But if we assumed that, then we're already in a dystopia o.O) less

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