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So Yesterday, by Scott Westerfeld
Title: So Yesterday
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: YA
Book Number/Goal: 2/50
Quick Review: It's like PopCo or one of Max Barry's novels*, only for teens. And really watered-down and dated. Yeah, a book about deconstructing pop culture and consumerism seems like a great idea, but it's been done before and it rarely ages well.
*Alienated protagonist, who is surprisingly knowledgeable about minute historical details, and the rather esoteric reaches of sociology, epidemiology or some other not-often-studied ology, meets a charismatic and chaotic love interest who shows our hero just how flawed the system, really is. The two then spend the rest of the book showing how the author's ideas for a perfect society would make things better, if we'd just try them out, dammit. Usually better than they sound, only not in this case.
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: YA
Book Number/Goal: 2/50
Quick Review: It's like PopCo or one of Max Barry's novels*, only for teens. And really watered-down and dated. Yeah, a book about deconstructing pop culture and consumerism seems like a great idea, but it's been done before and it rarely ages well.
*Alienated protagonist, who is surprisingly knowledgeable about minute historical details, and the rather esoteric reaches of sociology, epidemiology or some other not-often-studied ology, meets a charismatic and chaotic love interest who shows our hero just how flawed the system, really is. The two then spend the rest of the book showing how the author's ideas for a perfect society would make things better, if we'd just try them out, dammit. Usually better than they sound, only not in this case.