The Predicteds
Your future is not your own... "We wanted to know what makes a good kid good and a bad kid bad. Can you blame us for that? We found an astoundingly, marvelously simple answer: The brain isn't so much a complicated machine as it is a crystal ball. If you look into it, you will see everything you...
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Your future is not your own... "We wanted to know what makes a good kid good and a bad kid bad. Can you blame us for that? We found an astoundingly, marvelously simple answer: The brain isn't so much a complicated machine as it is a crystal ball. If you look into it, you will see everything you want to know." -Dr. Mark Miliken, senior researcher at Utopia Laboratories Who will it be? Will the head cheerleader get pregnant? Is the student council president a secret drug addict? The whole school is freaking out about PROFILE, an experimental program that can predict students' future behavior. The only question Daphne wants answered is whether Jesse will ask her out...but he's a Predicted, and there's something about his future he's not telling her.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402260490 (1402260490)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Hmmm.... Acabo de terminar el libro y todavía no se muy bien qué pensar. La idea de poder predecir el comportamiento de la gente mediante una serie de preguntas/test está muy bien pero más desaprovechada no podría estar. El 90% del libro es una novela de JR puro y duro y luego tiene ese toque "curio...
Most of the time the descriptions of books are what drags you into a story. They are the main tool that gets readers to want to pick up that particular books. If the description isn’t good it is highly unlikely that a reader will want to read further. Well for The Predicteds the description dragged ...
INITIAL THOUGHTS: I’ve read tons of books that have great covers but with a not so good story line which made a little hesitant to read this book. I was curious to know what the real content of this book is. The Goodreads summary was very short and not entirely what the whole book was about. That s...
A very different type of book from what i usually read.
Short and Sweet:What if there was a program could predict that could bad things before it happened? If it knew who the "bad apples" were and could allow for possible future situations to be avoided? Questions such as these make up a large chunk of The Predicteds. Should we know? If we do know, how t...