Uglies Guide

Posted on by scott

So there’s some mutterings around these parts of doing a sort of Guide to the Uglies Universe. You know what I mean: one of those books full of background data about the people, places, and gadgets of Tally’s world, maybe containing a few diagrams, glossaries, and maps for your fannish perusal.

Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi’s Spiderwick Chronicles has the wonderful and richly illustrated Field Guide. Erin Hunter’s Warriors books have a similar companion work, though with more text than pictures.

So what would you guys want in a guide to the Uglyverse? What questions remain unanswered? What background info do you demand?

Here is your chance to ask questions and to list obscure gadgets, slang, places, and characters that you want to know more about.

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Warning: Lame cover mocked up by me. Not in any way real (yet).

629 thoughts on “Uglies Guide”

  2. okay…
    hmmmm..
    a map would be awsome, it’s always really hard for me to picture things in a book…unless it’s subconciously, but when I try to imagine what anything looks like it all disapears

  3. i would want a guide to midnighters. or a fourth midnighters.
    PLEAZE!!!!!!

    okay, in on-topic notes.
    that cover’s not so bad.
    i wanna know about flash tattoos and like pictures of the sort of images they have and sort of how they work or something.

    more about the history of how they developed Pretty, because i am a history geek.

    stuff about the cities, like more on Tally’s city or Diego or ect.

    Rusty stuff.
    oh yeah, dude, we were in bio class last week, and we were studying how you can genetically engineer bacteria to eat oil. to “clean up oil spills”.
    or cause the end of the world!!!!!
    *dramatic music*
    that’s so Rusty.

    ummm…..i dunno what else.

    oh wait. hoverboards!!!!!!!!!!! lots of hoverboard derring do!
    what’s disturbing is that i typed hoverboard doctor who, because that’s what i was just talking about while typing, but ironically it also rhymes!

  5. I’d like to see something about the face parts the Pretties were allowed to choose and their backgrounds.

    Also, more about the political structure and technology.

  7. Character biographies and possibly a “where are they now?” section would be awesome. I’d also like to know more about the history of the world setting itself. This society can’t have existed exactly the way it is for those three hundred years; surely it was built upon some things? Do the Specials know the true history, or did they forget it, too? Were there any protests in the early days to radical brain surgery? Who figured out what to do to a brain to make it bubbly/special/etc and how did they find out (were there gruesome medical tests involved, etc)? Did disability rights activists protest the advent of some of the technology in the early days? Are there any things technology can’t cure besides severe brain damage? How were the founders of the utopia able to build it after the Rusty catastrophe?

    I could go on and on… ๐Ÿ˜€ Good books make me think.

  8. I *twitch* agree *twitch* with *twitch* Serafina *twitch*
    Need *twitch* 4th *twitch* midnighters *twitch**twitch*

  9. What exactly happened in the Rusty Collapse-was the person who started it someone who we would recognize? Like, Bush?

    Also, how can you tell if someone’s name ends with -wa or -la?

    What in detail do they do in the operation?

  10. AHHHHHHHHH IM SO HAPPY
    ok so maybe more info on like peris and tally’s realtionship as littlies. or just more background info on everyone(zane tally shay david aya hiro ect…..) a lot of stuff i want has already been said but yea if i think of more i will defiently come back and say!!

  12. yeaah. David’s scar!

    i want to know everyones ugly nicknames aswell pleasee!?
    some like.. alternative ending type things *cough* zane lives *cough* ๐Ÿ™‚
    yeahh. you could get us lot to write a fan fic for it ๐Ÿ™‚
    heehee

  14. I want to know more about Fausto, how the technology works, and way more. (I’ll get around to that) Because (if there is no guide) I’ll just have to write fanfiction about how Special Circumstances got started and what tricks Dr. Cable pulled and if she ever faced what Tally had to. And what happened to Ho? And how is Fausto?

  15. Other parts of the World like New York or England? And I would love to see pictures of like normal everyday life for a nobody. AND A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. Hmmm….Well, I could go on forever!!!

    More background about everyone!

    All the words, and everything!

    Maps, technilogical stuff, diagrams, pictures, etc., etc.

    Hmmm….Well I know a lot more but it’s way too much stuff, and a lot of the stuff I want too!!!

  18. hmmm yes. a map.
    haha i tried drawing one but the smoke ended up practically ontop of special circumstances.
    which wouldn’t be very clever XD

  19. the science experiment thing that tally wondered into in pretties. how that came about.

    as wel as a fourth midnighters!!!!!!!!!!

  20. i think maps would be amazing. maybe one of Tally’s city, and one of smoke, and one of Aya’s city, and another showing the path of rivers and railroads she takes to get to the original Smoke. [<i really want that last one. you’ll get a couple thousand uglies fans randomly showing up where smoke supposedly is after you release that. ๐Ÿ˜€ ]

    and the slang. you Have to have the slang. a whole separate dictionary. with pronuciation and of course definitions and how they’re used in sentences. and an example in the books. yes.

    I’d really like background stories on all the major and minor characters, detailing what happened before and after [mostly before] Tally’s story.
    Like david’s scar. What happened to that? I mean, he Promised! now you have to tell us or you shall be chased down by a mob of uglies fans.

    but dont do pictures of the people please. if i see what the author wanted the character to look like [like tally] then whenever i read the book i always see tally like the picure shows, and i can never see her the way that I want to see her. AANd thus tally is lost forever. how depressing.
    so on pictures: places–yes. people–no pleases.

  21. The other specials, DR. CABLE’S HISTORY! Oh, and hoverboards, and explanations of all the Pretty-Town cliques- the Balloon people and everyone else. More about Peris would be nice. And maybe Zane’s interaction with Special Circumstances. Please no sudden cheesy long-lost twins! Please! What about more about the others in the specials gang, like Fausto, like Kenina said.

    Hmmmm… more on how Spec. Circ. originated, more on surges and neato stuff. Yes, I just said ‘neato’. Maybe more about the ice-skating rink. And fireworks. Lots of fireworks. Teehee! Okay, now I’m officially rambling.
    Who was the first person to have a successful pretty surge? The first special? Exclusive info on the Pretty Committee? More on crumblies/middlies?

  23. Cable’s history is an absolute must!
    Zane’s status as an Ugly and how he created his own clique.
    The way Shay recruited the other Cutters.
    Maps. Defintely maps.
    How Middle Pretty’s operations went and how they got their jobs.
    A minor history of Diego.
    THE LOCATION OF THE SERIES! They say ‘Littlie’ but Death Valley is a place in Western U.S (I think).

  24. hmmm…..i dunno, when i think of a guide to the Ugliesverse, i think more of a general thing, not like specific book-nessacary stuff like bios and stuff.
    (though David’s scar *would* be fascinating. because it’d probably be, like, he fell down as a child. the end. dude! i just realized i have a scar like that above my eyebrow from when i fell on brick steps as a baby. crazy)
    but really i’d like to see more of the general-world stuff.

    what’d be really awesome is a lot of pictures and diagrams, and explinationy things, but in like an awesome ye-olde textbook sorta format. hmmm…rambling again.

    Personally, though, as a person who’s not a supergiant Uglies fan, this is the sort of thing that’d be kinda cool, but not like a must have. i mean, something i might take out of the library instead of buy. because it sounds cool and all, but i dunno. i’m not as much of an Uglies fangirl (now if it was Midnighters, i’d be drooling and rabidly demanding descriptions of what Metallurges can do….)
    i don’t know…don’t want to take valuable time away from writing awesome new books to focus even more on Uglies…
    (hypocritica once again. if it was a fourth midnighters or midnighters guide, i’d be screaming. i aknowledge my irrationality.)

    seriously though.
    Midnighters has a wiki.
    a fan-created and often updated and fairly complete wiki.
    a wiki you should post about so more people come and see and edit. also, you should look at it.
    does Uglies have a wiki?
    i think not.
    because Midnighters is awesome.
    go check out our wiki.
    it lives here
    http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.scribblewiki.com/Main_Page
    i’m Kirbygrrl, because my first (Serafina Zane) account logged me out and i lost the password. can leave messages on my talk page.
    anyone feel free to set up an account, if you want to edit.
    and you don’t have to be a member of Chasing Midnight Werewolves, or support us or anything. though you probably want to have read all three books, being as there are beacoup de spoilers.

  25. i’d also like more information on cities not really mentioned in the books. cause the only cities we ever see are tally’s, diego, the smoke, and aya’s city. What about all those cities that, according to david, didnt have specials, weren’t so strict about keeping pretties and uglies seperate, all those random towns that werent so extreme and didnt get caught up in this main story line of the mindrain.

    mostly i’d like to know how they lived how theyre governemnt worked and how they handled the whole seperate pretties uglies thing. how most cities functioned. not the weird extreme cities like Tally’s Aya’s Diego and Smoke.

  26. Yes, what happened to the lost characters of specials? Did Maddy become a famous scientist? What happened to Dr. Cable?

    That is a most awesome idea!

  28. I want to see like a lay-out of Tally’s City…i always had trouble imagining the different areas…
    and
    i Deff. wanna know about Peris and how Tally’s city is now…and the forest leading to the rusty’s city and soo much more..i want to beable to visualize everything…

    i just can’t wait for a movie..which i am pretty sure is coming out but im not 100%

  29. ummmmm
    ok
    im wondering about Tally’s parents
    wat did they say when they found out everything she had done
    or did they ever actually learn the whole truth!?!!?

  30. i hav another
    soooooo
    is there ever going to be a movie???
    i think it would be a really cool movie if it was done correctly!

  31. Why did you kill Zane!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I must know.

    Why didn’t tally be all sad when he died and why is she with…….David?!?!?!?!

    Why is Shay such a butt nugget?

    Yes, i said Butt nugget. Say it all the time, my friends say its weird, personally, i like it.

    Yes, i will base my questions around Zane.

  32. I want the stories behind the other uglies who helped out Tally in Pretties and Uglies before and after the Prettytime. Dex and the rest!

    And no movie, please.

    I’ve gotten burned too many times by book-to-movie translations.

    If you did, though, make *sure* to get complete creative control over it, Scott!

  33. 1. What is Zane’s last name?!? It has been bugging me for like EVER.

    2. Is there going to be a movie?? I think unless you [Scott] direct it, then it will be a complete disgrace.

    3. A map to the world might be useful to help sort things out in my head… Its a bit jumbled up at the minute.

    4. What colour is Tally’s hair? And Shay’s? Me and my friend are having a debate about it XD

    5. What do crash bracelets look like? I have an image of them in my mind but i know its not right. So a picture of them would be good (:

    And if i think of anything else, i will comment (:

    Also, WOOOOOH for comment #32 XD

    Check my blog (Y) http://alishala.wordpress.com/

    Cheers, Alisha-La xx

  36. Ok, so, um, i finished So Yesterday. And, um, i don’t want to sound mean but…… it stunk. I didnt like it, at all. It was disappointing because Scott is the best eva’ and well, it sucked. i hope you dont hate me Scott, i just thought it went no where. To me there seemed to be no point. They looked for her, found her, and she got promoted. wow. So here is why it really made me mad. I stayed up till 10:30 reading it and finished, got to the end and said “Well, that was really pointless.” Put it down and woke up tired and very mad. I was still tired. That wasn’t your best book. O well, i forgive you for making me read it. ?Your still the best. Your wat started my reading path and i must thank you. My friends think im a freak now but i still think your fawesome. (they just don’t no the meaning of cool!)

    Please dont hate me Scott.

  38. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that’s sooo awsome

  44. It’s almost 6:00 where I live
    Yes, i said Butt nugget. Say it all the time, my friends say its weird, personally, i like it.
    Yeah, I say that too Bran-la….

  46. METALLURGES! Yes! I was the only official (I have the siggy to prove it) metallurge on the Westerboard!
    I personally think it regards feeling vibrations and so forth. But yeah.

    METALLURGE!

  48. no last name is mentioned for shay-la.

    question to scott.

    k, i am an espiring author and all( i m not a good speller so if espiring is wrong o well) but you have some complicated characters. u no like zane. i have really only started 1 real story but, u no i have maybe 4 fan fics in the works. other storys are really my only inspiration. u no i have an amazing imagination. not meaning to brag. so when i read a story i put myself in a place(lets just say im get really into the story) and that creates a charachter w/ its own personality. which runs into new adventures and so on and so forth. so heres an actual question

    how the heck do you find good inspiration. i mean inspiration thats book worthy. pppppplllllleeeeeaaaaaaasssssseeeeeee answer. i no theres a TON of other questions and all, i don’t care how u answer either, just PLEASE answer. i neeeeeeeddddddd to no.

    o i totally switched directions there i had a whole other question ready and went a whole other way. so here was my real question,u have complicated characters like Zane. well how do u have them answer. that sounds kinda vage let me clairify, well like zanes answers and statements are soooo, complicated and unique. how do you get them that way. i have this problem w/ one of my fan fics which is on ECLIPSE. i can’t get the way edward answers just right, im sure if he was my own character it would be much easier, b/c it would be a personality that i had created, but its not and edward isn’t a character i can just, … throw out. u c edward is, hard to explain, so if u read the twilight series,u can look @ the fic. just click my name. pleaze pleaz answer me i neeeeeeeeddd to no
    *slightly depressed about this dissapointment in her writing, she goes off, and attempts to continue writing.despite this slight writers block.* ** sigh**

  49. What happens when some one is born perfect? Like, they don’t need a surgery.

    That WAS mentioned in the book. And I understand they would still need stronger bones and stuff.

    I like to call them…Naturals! *_*

    But of course that isn’t up to me…^_^;;

  51. I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE SUGGESTED!! bUT I HAVE A FEW QUESTION OF MY OWN..
    1. WHY DID YOU KILL ZANE? what was going through your head when you made this decision?
    2.Did Tally really love Zane?
    3. David’s scar?
    4. What happened to maddy, peris etc?
    5. What will happen in 200,000 years from now in Tally’s world?
    6. Will Tally get married?
    7. Could you bring ZANE back to life again?

    Alternative endings are always appreciated!!!!

    love, your books Scott!!

  52. hmmm. ahrd questions there scott. i would love a guide to like every sigle detail! especially zane. and david. and god, everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =]

  54. o btw bran-la, u r another one of those people who i need a glare smiley for grrrrrr i cant come up w/ one, but its only a light glare, because i agree it wasnt his best work, but all authors have to have a crappier than other books of mine book, or else you cant say that he has better books!!!!!!!!! but, i still liked it grrrrrrr* angerd not @ bran-la but at the stupid computer keyboard for not bein able to find a glaring smiley

    ok my anger has faded, but still it was better than a lot of crappy books ive read. sooo i still think its good

  55. Yeah, I want to know about David’s scar.
    But, I think I know why Scott killed Zane… it was because Tally had to realize that she can controll herself and not be a special-head.

  56. o and (gosh i got on the computer to continue my stories not to blog, but its hard 2 resist)
    dont suggest bring zane back, not that i dont like zane cuz i didnt like him being killed either, but, im sorry i cant explain, yes, no nev mind so tempted but i cant, * her hands are shaking with effort not to type the words that she want to type.* gosh i want to!!!!!! i probly sound like i need put in a mental fiacility, actually my preference is zane, but…uhhhhhh
    * she goes away from blog b4 she blows EVERYTHING*

  57. I second what has been said about the history of the world, how it got to where it was by the time of Tally’s story. How did they go about actually implementing the new uglies/pretties system, and how did they first figure out how to make pretties? Did it just start with plastic surgery and evolve from there? Where there a lot of mistakes? The Operation in Tally’s time is so extreme, but they have the medical technology to pull it off successfully–so what about before that technology had been developed?

    I’m also interested in what happened in other cities (which someone else mentioned, too). How much did cities differ from each other? Aya’s city and Tally’s were so similar (during the prettytime, at least), even though they were so far apart. Were all cities so alike? What sort of contact did cities have with each other? Did people ever move from one city to another, either by choice or otherwise?

    I’d also like to see before/after comparisons of faces. (Not necessarily character faces, just different types of faces.) I know uglies’ appearances had been averaged (though natural genetics) by then, but there would still be different shapes and sizes of features, and I’ve wondered how such things were handled in the operation. (I figured pretty faces were sort of altered versions of ugly faces, rather than faces made up of parts from a menu, because people don’t seem to have trouble telling each other apart, and pretties can be recognized based on what their ugly faces looked like.)

    What was prettytime society like before/after Ugly and New Pretty? The Uglies go to school and bide their time until their operation, the New Pretties’ lives revolve around parties and social circles, but what about Middle and Late Pretties? What about Littlies, and Crumblies? When did people get married (And how did that whole pairing process work?), and when did they have kids? What sort of rules governed those things? How were jobs chosen or allocated? What were Littlies’ lives like, and how long did they live with their parents before becoming Uglies and moving to the dorms?

    Where does the city’s food come from? Is it all synthetic (though obviously a much healthier version of synthetic than what we eat now), and if so where is it made and what from? If it’s real food, where is it grown/raised?

    Why weren’t there any domestic animals kept as pets? (Dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc.)

    I’d like to know more about the holes in the wall, too. Judging by what we learned about the hole-in-the-wall technology in Extras, something has to be put in before it can come out. So what’s kept in the walls that comes out as food/clothes/etc.? And where does that raw material come from?

    Where do you get your ideas?

    (Yes, that last one was a joke. I know perfectly well that ideas are delivered by the Magpie in much the same way that babies are delivered by the Stork. But I was on a roll and just couldn’t stop myself…)

    ~Mary

  58. Whoa….

    I apologize for the incredible long-ness of my last post. I didn’t realise it had gotten so out of hand.

    *blush*

    ~Mary

  60. Are we the rusties, or were they a few generations after us? What happened to the rusties? How many survived the oil-eating bacteria? Did it only screw up the US, or North and South America? Or did it get the whole world?
    Where there any places who didn’t have the surg at all?
    More details about Andrew’s tribe? How was it (and the rival tribes) created? How long was it around? How did they not invent/steal something tech?! Why didn’t the Pretties teach the tribes English? Did they visit every tribe, or just Andrew’s? Any more details about the dolls keeping the tribes in would be fantastic!

  61. I was wondering what the proportions of Pretties were. Like height, mostly…
    And, if the Rustie’s cars broke down while they were trying to escape the city, why did they just sit inside them and wait to die? Why didn’t they just get out and start walking?
    <3

  62. I would want to know about the exact ages pretties had to become the next stages and so on.

    I would also like to know about any kind of pets that might be found in Tally-world. Were there pets?

    And what about the hole for a closet? How the heck did that thing work?!?!

  63. Also, if you’ve thought up what would happen in space after Udzir and everyone got a settlement going up there?
    <3

  64. I am totally dying for an alternate ending to Specials!
    *cough*one*cough*where*cough*Zane*cough*doesn’t*cough*
    die*cough*! Wow I just had a little coughing spell.HeHeHe!
    Um…not really sure where to start…Oh I know!
    1. I am an author in the making and have been writing different stories and novels but I feel like my characters are too simplistic and like I can’t get inside their heads.It’s like the characters don’t really have a mind of their own that their only skin deep, so my question is, how do you create your characters so complex? it’s like there’s real depth to your writing.(that’s a good thing)lol
    2. I would totally love it if you put in designs of hoverboards and pictures of Pretties and Specials.(for some reason I visualize hoverboards like ripsticks.Is that a totally lame visualization?
    Team Zane!
    See ya!

  65. I was actually thinking of using HTML to make an “Uglies Universe Dictionary”, but you should seriously put it in the Field Guide instead. There should also be a short story in there about Tally’s littlie days.

  66. Ha, i love saying butt nugget. When my friend hits me i go, “Stop it u butt nugget.” But sometimes people say other butt stuff, i say butt stuff. I dont no, its weird, but its my ‘come back’.

  67. YOU==BEYOND MY LIFE.
    GUIDE TO UGLIES UNIVERSE=BEYOND AWESOME. Fawesome, that is.
    Okay, onward–history of Dr. Cable, definitely–and of the operation (both pretty & special), what happened to all the characters after the end of the books, maps with Tally’s journey to the Smoke, a history of minor charries (Jai/Kai/Lai, Udzir? Tachs? Astrix, Ryde? You get the picture.) Will post w/ more ideas later.

    THIS=BEST IDEA EVER.

  69. Ummmmh….AHHH I want so much. Sounds needy but is very true considering how amazing these books are. I’d love to know so many different things that people have already said:
    david’s scar,
    why is it -wa or -la,
    I’d love to know more about Tally/David relationship
    -even tho i know like it would be more of a field guide and not let us know what happens between them
    I’d like to know what makes Tally seem so harsh from an outsiders view like Aya, or if that is just normal, the way shes been all along
    I’d like a map of all of Tally’s body-not sickly-I’d just like to see like what the tattoos mean!
    More about the mind of specials and pretties, and even how mutilated the uglies are tricked to be
    Oh I would love a map, like with little diagrams of the rusty ruins and the rollar coaster, and the Smoke
    More about Zane, and what exactly kills him
    omg i just have sooooo much too say
    If I can think of anything else off the top of my head I’ll come back to the site for sure to put it here!

  70. Oh! And story of Peris and Tally as littlies. Come on, we need something to convince us that he wasn’t ALWAYS a boring bubblehead. *sigh*
    And of course a page dedicated to your lovely fan, Laine-wa. Um, just kidding.
    And yeah, Kenina-chan…Tally and David’s children? I would be amused. ๐Ÿ˜€

  71. I love how everyone wants Zane back,
    but I never had the feelings for him that I had for David
    like I think if David was in real life I might die and be brought back to life, he’s just the picture of my perfect guy, and probably my favorite quote in the entire series is by him:
    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    -Uglies, when David’s talking to Tally-wa

  72. Stats, stats, and more stats.
    Things like how long it took them(society, government, etc) to build up the technology they have and where/how/when they started the process, how much the prettification surgery costs the government and how long it takes. Maybe precise measurements of some of the faces/facial features that uglies can choose from? You mentioned the Field Guide, which included at the very least the height of the creature, so those are the lines I’m thinking along.

    Specs on hoverboards and mag-levs would be cool, too, along with any other techy-gadgets.

    Perhaps a tally-world ‘lingo’ list, too?

    Regardless of what ends up going into it, I’m sure it’ll be amazing. With such a complex world, there’s a lot to cover, which is exactly why an idea like this is so intriguing.

  74. Yay!!! Another book!!!! Even if it’s just like an extra info one it’s better than nothing. It would be cool to find out more about what happened in other cities after the mind-rain, like did others use the reputation economy or did they just go back to the way things were for rusties, did any cities want to keep the surge, etc. Also stuff on what happens after Extra’s, like maybe a story *coughentirenovelcough* about Lai when she joins the extra’s.
    Basically everthing everyone else has said too… I’m so excited now! I love books!!!! Also a fourth midnighters!!!!!!

  75. I would want to see…

    * MAPS – That way it is easier to understand and visualize their journey’s, particularly around their city and from their city to Diego.

    * What Happened To… Croy, Astrix, Ryde, Maddie, Ho, Tachs etc. – Especially Croy! I miss him.

    * Descriptions of their Physical Attributes – What do the characters look like? We have seen some descriptions, but not things such as hair color.

    * Technological Descriptions – What do crash bracelets look like? Maybe a picture of a hoverboard? How do pings, eyescreens, skintennas work? And what do they look like to the person using them? Etc.

    * Background – What was Peris and Tally’s relationship like before he was pretty? We see glimpses of this, but I would love to have more of an understanding.

    * Timeline – When is considered the Rusties era? Or pre-Rusties? When did the Rusties era collapse? When do these stories take place?

    * David’s Scar – We are all dying to know how that happened ๐Ÿ™‚

    * Dictionary – Different ugly/pretty/special sayings and what they mean. (Bubbly, bogus, icy, whatever-making) Also, what context they can be used in.

    * What you thought about, but didn’t include – I know writers sometimes have created backgrounds for their characters or interesting bits about them that never actually get included in the stories. I would love to know anything you attribute to the characters that never made it into the novel. Extra information is always intriguing!

    Oh! And maybe you could write a few more books about Uglies/Pretties/Specials and stories of Tally/Shay/David/etc…. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Haha okay, but I can DREAM can’t I?

  76. …Dr. Cable’s secret love life. Just kidding. I mean, kind of. *cough*
    I’m so into this idea, Scott! Please write.

  79. haha laine-wa and lae i could stand for i think a million more books in the series but musn’t be greedy
    ahhhhh i love david tho…definitely wanna see his scar and maybe a timeline of how he was born and the smoke starting and that would be cool
    of course im totally in love with shay/david relationship
    ive been with them all along ๐Ÿ™‚

    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    -David in Uglies

  81. Here’s some of my advice that doesn’t send the Earth flying in that black hole at the center of our galaxy….even if that goes against all laws of science.
    #1
    Don’t call your sister names while she is holding a baseball bat.
    Results are not fun.
    I speak from experience.

  83. nett-la agreed musn’t is a funny wordddd
    i used it because it felt funny
    lol
    kinda random
    really really long week but it was great to find this post on the blog

  89. Hmmm….I need a pessimistic phrase of the day…I have had one for almost every day since last July and now I can’t think of one…

  90. I Want to know what happened to HO And Tachs? i have been wondering that FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe i wil;l finally no!

    He he he

    i love the idea of tally haveing kids….. he he he…….. i would not want to be her child though, just imagine if u got in trouble….. that would so not be good….. or if u pissed her off…… yikes….. he he he

    SoPhIe-LA
    WoRd ๐Ÿ˜‰

  91. oh netta-la i see what you mean
    my day was very gray
    yeah
    sry no depressing thoughts right now
    im supposed to be doing math hw
    cuz i have a busy weekend
    with much hw since ive been sick all week
    but its all good….
    so i guess im a little depressed
    who doesnt hate math….

  94. This probably isn’t a popular request but…

    Background on Dr. Cable.

    I’d love to know more about her, she’s an interesting villian, and I’d love to know how she came up with Special, and how she became Special herself.

  97. It would be really cool if you could have maps (duh) and pictures of the flash tattoos because my friends and I want some.

  98. i also want to know the background on the first time all of shay’s friends left, dr cables background (excatly how old is she?), where the other despecialized people went, what happened to peris, who are the rusties (what time period, like are we rusties or are they after us?), what year is it in uglies?, and thats just a few!

  100. yeah. thats all i really wanna no. how David got his scar an all.

    wow. 99 comments…i need to come on here more often.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜

  101. hhhhmmmm…

    so, in Aya-las city, they still have flash tatoos rite? well, the whole fame/merits think is kinda like money, so…remember when Aya-la got those temperary tatoos for the Thousand Faces party? well, wood those cost less than the real thing?

    and once you get a flash tatoo, cood you get it removed? like you can get normal tatoos removed?

    and…during the operations, do the machines do everything, or do the doctors actually do all of the surgery? or both…hhmmm….

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜•

  102. I’d like to know about the Pretty jargon. You know, Tally-wa, Shay-la, truth-slanting, pretty-making, bubbly-making, icy-making, kicker.
    It’s very ingenious and creative. I’d like to know why the Pretties talked like that while the Uglies didn’t.

  105. i really want to know how the cities work
    (in tally’s world and aya’s)
    what kind of a society is it?
    whats the government like?
    When stuff comes out of the wall,
    who makes the stuff?
    Are their social classes?
    All kinds of things like that would be nice!
    ^-^

  107. god…soo….many…comments….

    but i thought of something on-topic.

    see, with this “guide” thing, there’s two ways you can go. Canon, like the Spiderwick Guide, which was something that existed in the books and took place in the world of the books and all. then there’s like, uncanony, like The Artemis Fowl Files that was short stories about the characters and translation stuff and ect.
    personally, i like the first kind better.
    but that’s just me.

  113. NO MOVIE PLEASES!! Like Shausto-la said (near the top of the page), pictures and movies of characters from the book would COMEPLETELY RUIN the diverse pics inside each reader’s mind- by that i mean we’d all see Tally and Shay and all the others ONE WAY, and that, well, would stink.
    I do think we should learn more about the history-
    pre-rusties, rusties, how Dr. Cable became a special, and so on. And how they got from the end of specials to the city in Extras- there’s such a big gap there, it seems. Maps would be helpful, too. it would make it easier to see how fast Tally really got from Diego to her home city near the end of Specials. More on the vocab in the book, like some people had said before- whether to use -la or -wa at the end for nicknames. Alternate endings to books that WOULDN’T change the books following (Excpet Extras of course) would be really cool.
    YOUR BOOKS ROCK! I’M SO GLAD THAT I FOUND THEM AT MY SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR LAST YEAR, AND I ALWAYS TELL MY FRIENDS ABOUT THEM. MOST OF MY FRIENDS WOULD AGREE WITH ME WHEN I SAY YOUR UGLIES “TRILOGY” *cough now a series* IS THE BEST WE’VE EVER READ- EVEN ABOVE HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!

  114. I didn’t have time to read through all of the posts, so I’m not sure if anyone said these yet, but if they did, oh well.

    First note, you should write another Midnighters and another in the UGLIES series. If you don’t, I shall send my rabid ducks after you.

    Now, for what I would like. One more first note, I love this idea. I know it’ll help me sort out my jumbled mind at least on this subject. Now. I want to know more back-round info on some of the other characters, and I also think it would be cool to learn more about the rangers. Yeah. And a lot more about the technology. Also, how they decide if someone’s name is la or wa. Also, how you come up with all these amazing names. Let’s see, what else. AND. What does the recycler do with things once they’re tossed. And in EXTRAS, Fausto offers his opinion on how to get rid of the hovercams, which is with glitterbombs. Those were never mentioned before. What exactly are they? Oh yeah. And tell us about David’s scar. I want to know. Now. Please. Now. Anywhos. Hm. I think that’s about it…. if I think of any more questions I would like answered I’ll be sure to post them. So, g’night.

    Oh, and one last thing. I love the shirts. Some of my friends and I are considering getting them for Halloween next year.

    ~ Emma Rose

  115. This is why i hate fancy restaurants. I left my house at 7 pm. I didn’t get back til, just now, 10:03. The whole time i was at dinner. It took 2 hours, 2 freakin hours, to get our food. I hate fancy restaurants.

    Ill stick with home meals.

  116. I just finished Specials (seriously, 10 minutes ago!) and I am *dying* for more information on Tally and David. Yes, I am going to read Extras and I know there’s a scene there on how Tally ends up, but I would LOVE at least a short story on Tally and David together in the wild, working things out, making amends, and falling in love all over again. I really, really, really, need to read that. Please consider including a chapter like that! Thank you. ^.^

  117. Alright, now this is going to be long, but I have a lot of questions. Some have already been mentioned and others haven’t so…. her I go.

    1) More about Peris and Maddy. Peris’s past especially, and where they both are now.

    2) A picture of a hoverboard, and a picture of crashbracelets.

    3) Story of David’s scar – SOOO curious!!

    4) Some one mentioned this, and I thought it was an awesome idea – all of our favorite characters ugly nicknames!!

    5) A picture of the tracking device that Dr. Cable uses to follow Tally to the Smoke. I’ve always wanted a definite design!!!

    6) Dr. Cable’s history, there is sooo much more I need to know!!

    7) More information / dialog between the interogation that Zane had with Dr. Cable and special circumstances.

    8) Pictures / Diagrams of hovercars, possibly the one that Tally stole from the scientists when in Andrew Sampson’s village.

    9) Pictures of the Little Men / End of the World from Andrew’s village.

    10) How exactly Andrew got out of the village – did Tally go back and rescue him?

    11) A picture of a water purifier – to see if the one in my head is close at all!!

    12) Diagram / more info on sneak suits!!! What do they look like when they’re not on – do they still camoflauge with their surroundings?

    13) Diagrams of the armory that Tally and Shay broke into with the nanos.

    14) Pictures of Flash Tattoos.

    I’m sure there’s lots more that I’m forgetting, maybe I’ll post more ideas later. This is such an awesome idea Scott – you should definitly do it!!!!

  118. 1) As many people are saying, I would LOVE character bios and information on where everyone is now, what they did after Specials, etc.

    2) More information on the hoverboards. They’re so fun! I love them.

    3) More info on the Uglies and their tricks. They’re my favourite population, after the Smokies of course. Also, I’d love information (in the form of a short story, ideally) on how Uglies and Pretties are interacting now, how growing up has changed. Though maybe many answers will be in Extras which I haven’t read yet. But anything that’s not answered there – how social relations have changed and how populations are interacting.

    4) If it’s not clear, I want short stories! Lists of facts (historical, character bios) and maps are great, too, but there’s definitely more story to tell (especially with Shay and David’s relationship :D). I’d love to read more! I want LOTS more info on David. He’s my favourite character after Tally! If it’s possible to write another book on the characters (esp. Tally/David), that would be wonderful. ^.^

  119. Wow,this sure is a dilemma. I just had like a million questions,but i read the rest of the comments and forgot almost all of them.
    I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wondering what year it is in the series.(or what years)
    I still think that…sorry, I still know that Zane is better than David and no offense but all you David crazed fans are polluting my thoughts.(lol)
    Have you ever wondered why cotton candy is so fluffy?(Strange, I have no clue where that came from.Darn my short attention span. Okay back to my questions*cough*I mean demands*cough*again.)
    I seriously want like a dictionary on all the slang.
    ex. Pretty-making,bubbly,icy-making,magna-head…
    I really have a problem with talking like they do in the series. I read the whole series while I was on Christmas break(each book took me one day actually) so I wasn’t at school when I read them and I come back and I’m all talking to my friends(most of which haven’t read the Uglies series.don’t worry though I’ll get it to them)and I’m saying stuff like ” We should have a longer Christmas break school is so not happy-making” and then my friends just stare at me and they’re all”huh?” and I have to go into this really long explanation and blah blah blah.I’m boring myself so I’ll just shut up.Fawesome idea Scott-la!
    See ya!

  120. Wow, great ideas, everyone! All of the above, PLUS–
    I want to know why Aya’s whole society spoke like pretty-heads, even the uglies! Odd-making.

  121. Dictionary would be nice, too.
    And some short stories.
    And, like someone was saying (sorry! don’t feel like scrolling back up through all those posts) there are 2 kinds of guides. I like the 2nd one better–for example, it could be *gasp* CABLE’S PERSONAL NOTEBOOK!!! Get it? And it could have her notes on the operation, and everything, and her journal of events, and the body scans of the Cutters, and bios of everyone, and it could almost give a window into her life.
    Don’t you like the idea? All who do say “Peris is a rotten egg.” Okay, don’t say that. Say “Aye.”

  122. well how do pretties pick what kind of surge they have? Like you know how shay got the surg in her eyes, well did she have to think of that or is there kike a book or something about what one you would have
    I know this might be really boring but what to the leisons actully do to the brain and im guessing its the left side right (the creative side) or would it do something to both sides like also the math side and go into depth about flash tattoo maybe
    IM sorry my mom is a bioligest and i get into depth about a lot of stuff like that

  124. More ideas from moi.

    I really want to know what time period this is, like what year. And where on the continent Tally’s city would be. And where the Smoke would be. And Diego as well.

    How did Aya’s city come up with the whole Face Rank system? And pictures of some of the structures, like her dorm, her apartment at Shuffle Mansion, and some pictures of what hovercams would look like. I’ve been debating with my friend over that.

    What do all the Crims/Cutters flash tattoos look like? I’ve been DIEING to know.

    Picture of Shay’s eye surge from the beginning of PRETTIES.

    Like so many people have said, more backround on pretty much everybody. Shay, Peris, Cable, David, Zane, Fausto, Croy, Ryde, Astrix, Ren, Hiro, Jai/Kai/Lai, Udzir and such.

    More about Aya’s and Moggle’s relationship. Why she chose to name it, and what it looked like before Ren made all the mods.

    Dictionary of all their words that we don’t use. Pretty-making, bubbly, icy, ect. And where they originated.

    Who came up with the idea for bashes, and what was the first one like?

    How has the operation evolved since they first started doing it? How did they come up with that idea?

    How has their technology evolved? What was the first techno. thing they made?

    Why do they have a younger drinking age? (They were talking about Uglies drinking in SPECIALS, and uglies are 12-16. Sooo…)

    What’s the cities interactions with one another? Do any other cities have special circumstances? Do any of the other cities know about Tally’s city’s special circumstances? Why does Diego have a name, but Tally’s and Aya’s cities are never mentioned to have names? Do they have names? If yes, what are they? If no, then why not?

    Why is Nana Love’s face rank so high? What has she done to get it so high?

    When did the Sly Girls begin? Who started them? Was Eden part of the original group that created the clique, or did she just join up?

    More about hoverball and the other sports they play? What sports do they play? If they play sports that we do, how to they differ and how are they alike?

    Pictures of the machines in the armory. What are some of the things in the “museum”? How long has the caretaker been working there? Why was he chosen for the job? Was there anything that the nanos didn’t eat?

    A diagram or pictures of some of the things they use in the smoke. Water purifiers, sleeping bags, those power saw or whatever those things were called that the Smokies used to pull up the railroad ties.

    What did David’s parent’s house look like, both from the outside and the inside?

    Scaled maps. I’m having trouble imagining distances and such.

    More about the other cliques in New Pretty Town, and more about the cliques in Aya’s city.

    Diego’s history. Why didn’t the teachers have the lesions? Why did they never have a border (river) between Uglyville and New Pretty Town?

    What kind of food do they eat? Do they eat things that we’ve never heard of, or do they eat relatively the same things we do?

    How are pretties told that they’re going to become special? After they’re made special, are they told about the brain lesions? How does the process of turning them from pretties to specials work?

    Why did Dr. Cable decide to have Cutters? What’s there main purpose? Is Shay in charge because she was the first one?

    How did Maddy develop the cures for being pretty and special? What were the ingredients in the cures?

    Do you ever plan on writing a fourth Midnighters and a fifth UGLIES? (^-^)

    What are some tricks that the uglies pull besides the ones that we know of?

    I think that’s about it… Yup. Believe so. But, if I think of more again, I’ll post them.

    By the way Scott-la, you’re fawesome. And so are your books. ^-^

    ~Emma Rose

  125. Wow. My last post was long. Sorry ’bout that. I just have so many questions that have been killing me. Can’t wait for this to come out. I have over $100 in Barnes and Noble and Borders gift cards, and I’m not afraid to use it. xD

  126. i would like to know about the reservation with all the ugly villiagers that thought tally was a goddess. i would also like to know about more cities and their cultures.and what was the name of tally’s city?

  129. Uh, teenage pregnancy. Well, good question though. And u never mentioned anything about HAVING children Scott.

  130. I agree with Soleta I would love love love more details about David because he is like my favorite, kinda fell in love with him after Uglies, and I won’t say the rest of the series was a disappointment, because in no way was it a disappointment but there just wasn’t as much about David….
    Also Addie-wa I understand your question but I think many of the “Uglies” were so brainwashed into believing they were ugly that they wouldn’t really want to well “produce” a child if you bare with my childish terms……
    I understand during the rebellion this might’ve changed but I tend to stick with the thought that although many things in their world were flawed, they might have eliminated the thought of teen pregnancies, not to say this is right in any way what so ever or that this is anything more than what I believe but I just wanted to see what anyone had to say about it. I imagine it was definitely possible, I just don’t know if I believe it probable that an Ugly would get pregnant right before their 16th birthday
    but as I stress, this is just my view on this….what do you think would happen?

  131. i dont understand some of there achies and gadgets and stuff…… i would love to know about andrews vilage though. That would be great.

  132. Well i love all of the uglies books there the best books i have ever read!! but i just want to know if there will be a 5th one??
    plzzz be a yessss

  133. Gosh,you guys I leave for a few hours to catch some sleep and I come back and you started a discussion on the Uglies getting pregnant. What’s up with that?HaHaHa, that sounded kinda mean,sorry. I’m bored!
    See ya!

  134. I think that a book written from Dr. Cable’s or Zane’s point of view would be very interesting. You could track her experiences from the time she was an ugly to the last meeting with Tally, and so on. I think that would be interesting.

  135. I definately need to know more about Paris. And Fausto. Definately more about Fausto.
    And the most imprtant one is Croy. I feel a dire need to know much much more about Croy!!!

    And I would want to know a little bit more about how we turned into Rusties. Like… how the whole oil exploadie thing happened.

    Oh! Here’s the biggggggggggg big big one…

    WHERE DID DAVID’S SCAR COME FROM!?!?!?!?!?!
    That’s what I wanna know!

  137. Tally&Zane haha yeah sorry that was just me responding to someone…it was thought provoking lol…

    Savvy-la loves David, ahhh im reading Romeo and Juliet for schoool and I have a big test on tuesday….only the play is in our class books which are a class set of books so i cant review anything ๐Ÿ™ but anyways its realllllly good isn’t it?

  141. calling shay a butt nugget *if it is bad i WILL track you down*

    No, I wasn’t calling Shay a butt-nugget.
    I was just saying that ‘butt-nugget’ is a phrase I use.

  142. Have you ever wondered why cotton candy is so fluffy?(Strange, I have no clue where that came from.Darn my short attention span.
    Don’t worry
    I’m sure mines shorter.

  143. I have finished Blue Noon, Ermm..I don’t remember the second one, and The Clique very recently…like in the last day….

  144. You’ve finally seen the light Bre-la! Twilight is so awesome!Don’t get me wrong, I still am totally in LOVE with all of Scott’s books.

  145. i remember in uglies, tally asked david how he got the white scar going through his eyebrow. he promised to tell her. but……….CHUUU HAVNT TOLD UZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!! i kno that you got your scar by a fencing accident…i think. but i’ve been wondering for a LONG time!!!!! lol

  147. I was thinking last night (ya’ll post ALOT of messages in on nights sleep, gosh!), and I think that you should add…
    crap I forgot what it was >_<

  148. The book was called

    Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys By Kate Brian

    It is hilarious and totally boy-crazy (my fav.!). It is basically this: A girls parent are forced to move to Korea. she doesnt want to go. A family of 7 teenage boys invites her to live with them. there parents are friends with her father. She has never kissed a boy. Its very funny. Oh, and shes in high school. Most of the boys are older (high school) and like 2 or 3 are younger (middle school and below.)

    You should read it, if ur into that stuff. It just how she deals with them but how she kinda, uh, likes some of them.

  149. k answering emma-wa’s question i think i heard somewhere that tallys city is near where seattle washington was( thats the rusty runes) and diego is SAN DIEGO, california.i THINK im not sure. idk where the smoke is.

  150. comment 3: “i would want a guide to midnighters. or a fourth midnighters.”

    Scott, for another idea, could we please please please please please have a whole book of Dess’s blog entries (including the two on the Midnighters website of course) It would be absolutely awesome. (I heart Dess)

    Anyways, for the uglies guide:

    all the different beauty technology, starting with the pretty operation, then going on to different surges. Oh, and are certain surges more popular is some areas than others? Like, for instance, the manga eyes (which I really want =)) being more popular in Japan, and stuff like that?

    Then other technology, for instance hoverboards (LOVE!!!), and stuff that’s not directly to do with the beauty side of things.

    And general stuff about the universe at that time, like their views (on rusties, the universe, etc.), what they do (like, a lot of people seemed to be pretty. So did they have people doing researches unrelated to people and their pretty.) And also, the things like maps, and how society operated in general.

    Maybe do a bit about the characters as well. We miss them. (I literally had to stop, and went absolutely crazy-happy whenever Tally was mentioned in Extras. That’s how much I missed the girl. Actually, I called my iPod Tally Youngblood.)

    Love, marie.

  151. Maps. Histories. Goofy obsessive details that I can show off to “freak the randoms.” Geekworthy stuff like that.

  152. I agree with Hobo-wa, if there was, someday, to be a film, maintaining creative control would be a must! After the debacle that was the Golden Compass adaptation, I’m wary of any and all book-to-film adaptions.

    As far as what I’d like to know, how do the Walls work? When you request something is it made right then and there for you, or does it work on some sort of vaccuum tube system?

  154. Okay, I know this isn’ exactly a Romeo and Juliet discussion, but I am so so so so SOOOOOOO bummed that Mercutio died! And, I mean, he was the first to go too! AH! And I can’t believe the Prince wasn’t more upset about it! I mean, they were related! Besides, Mercutio is like by FAR the best character in the whole stupid play!

    I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY KILLED HIM!
    Oh well, at least Benvolio didn’t die. I’d rather have Mercutio, but Benvolio will do.

  155. Ha. We should have a whole page for Romeo & Juliet spoilers. Lol.
    I KNOW! ME + MERCUTION= LOVE!
    Um, yeah. It was pretty depressing.

  156. And the WAY in which he died, TOO! All “I’m done for” and depressed! And it’s all stupid Romeo’s fault! And–aagh. Loved that play, but it was so…exasperating.

  157. ahhhhahahah savvy-wa loves david,
    ummmm i love how i havent even gotten to that part yet, our class has been reading since before christmas and we’re on like act 2 scene 5, we have such annoyingly slow readers its kinda pathetic
    but yeah already romeo is pretty exasperating, even if he hasnt caused his best buddy mercutio’s death yet…….
    its funny how on romeo and juliet this thread has gotten ๐Ÿ™‚

  158. I know, how’d all this even get started?? ๐Ÿ˜€
    Oh well. Romeo & Juliet is pretty cool, anyway.
    What grade are you guys in? We read that last year.

  159. haha laine-wa idk how this even got started….im a freshman in highschool, thats the year we read romeo and juliet in advanced classes anyways…..how about you? ๐Ÿ˜€

  160. I hate it when authors make perfect couples like, not work. Someone needs to make a book of just perfecness. No wait. I just rememebred a book that worked out.

    *******TWILIGHT SAGA SPOILERS*****************
    Well at least Edward and Bella worked out. I mean they are perfect together. I cant wait til breaking dawn!!!!!!!

  161. Well thanks guys!!!! I planned on reading that book, we dont really read books in school. Now i already nos what happened. O well, my friend told me the end and i was like ‘Thanks Alexa, your so nice!” I was mad.

  162. Yeah, I’m a sophomore, so that makes sense that I had to read it last year.
    Yeah, Bran-la, that was nice in Twilight:D

    Are you saying Tally/Zane was a perfect couple, then?

  163. I knew the end before I read it, and I still liked it. I mean, a lot of people know what happens, but it didn’t really affect my enjoyment of it. Some books, you really CAN’T know the ending–like And then there were none. That’d just kill the suspense. But R & J is pretty predictable.

  164. ahhh yeah i know a lot about what happens in the end i didnt know mercutio died, but thats ok ๐Ÿ™‚ ahhh i have to disagree with tally/zane being a perfect couple, id love it to be tally/david but yeah…..it might actually happen unlike tally/zane so i guess w/e yeah that does make sense about you being a sophomore so thats cool………..uhhhh…..yeah…..thats cool ๐Ÿ˜€

  166. Second book of WHAT? I’m glad you’ve seen the light, though 0.0
    This is stressful. So…many…posts…to read through!! Aah.
    No, I agree, Tally/Zane isn’t perfect.
    But neither is Tally/David.
    Sad-making, eh?

  169. laine-wa, so true sad-making…….

    bre-la, what about the second book of twilight, i havent read those…..but i hear their good and everything….ive just been realllllllllllllly wayy to busy with stupid school

  170. Haha. You’ve seen the Light. Twilight. Light. Get it?
    …Yeah, my brain’s not functioning right now.

  171. Maybe Tally should just be with Andrew Simpson Smith.
    ๐Ÿ˜€

    Who should Cable be with? I love trying to find lovers for Dr. C.

  172. Alright, everyone. me=going to bed now. I am totally exhausted, and it’s only 9 something o’clock. Aah, I’ve been up since 3 am….
    DON’T POST TOO MUCH WHILE I’M ASLEEP! But post enough that it’ll be interesting for me to read in the morning. ๐Ÿ˜€
    good night all!!
    ~your friendly neighborhood laine-wa

  173. haha laine-wa yeah i get what you mean about Andrew Simpson Smith, but i really do love david and tally together, as flawed as they are….
    as for cable……hmmm….shes so heartlesssssss……on the other hand we don’t really know very many guys that age……there was that doctor that tally trapped in andrew simpson smith’s world with the little people who bring upon pain or whatever….thats the only doctor i can specifically think of thats kinda like evil probably like cable….i really kinda loathe that woman lol….

  174. ahh laine-wa night! its like 8:27 where i am and i have to stay up to do stupidddd hw so anyways ttyl…..

  177. ahhhh netta-la so so so trueeeeeeee and im stuck doing schoolwork on a saturday night, that kinda sucks……

    bre-la haha ya andrew with tally would be funny right?

  178. But, like, Mercutio was the only reason I read the stupid play! I would like flip the pages ahead to see how long it would take before I got to see Mercutio again, and then he DIED! It was so lameeeeeeeee. He was totally the best character in the whole stupid dream. I’m going to bring Tybalt back to life just to kill him myself!

  179. Alright guys. Back for just a minute. I was about to go to bed–and then an idea hit me. One moment while I flesh things out and then I shall have an announcement.

  180. Illustrations would be gorgeous and enjoyed – the flash tattoos, maps of the land, etcetera. Symbols. Emblems. The rings. Hoverboards.

    Slang dictionary.

    Quotes. The speech from the end of Specials.

    Quiz?

  181. There are only four things that I really care about, from most improtant to least :]

    4. Background information on Fausto.

    3. A map of the orginal Smoke.

    2. Background information on Croy.

    1. HOW DID DAVID GET HIS SCAR?

  184. sorry i meant i get what you mean about mercutio….but about what you want to see in the field guide too…..

  185. ALRIGHT. HERE IT IS.

    Now, reminding you, I still am going to bed in a few moments. When I wake up, I’ll work more on this–currently there are, like, no categories.
    BUT–You know how Westerboard is down? Well, that leaves us Westerfans lonely and without a home. Therefore, I bring you my new forum–westerfeldforums.lumak.net.
    PLEASE JOIN! It would make me feel so very loved if I saw new members in the morning. Honest, I’m a nice admin. I don’t bite.

    JOIN PLEASE. PLEASE JOIN. HOW MANY WAYS CAN I SAY IT? JOIN. PLEASE.
    LOVE, LAINE-WA.

  192. Tally and Zane were a perfect couple but SCOTT runined it when he died and she got with David *Gag me* We all no Zane is better!

  193. wow…if you (scott) actually go with all of these suggestions, this is gonna be a reeeeeeaally thick book. O.O. but seriously?!?!?!?! WHY did you have to KILL ZANE?!?!!?!?!??!? lol sorry. big outburst. my bad -sweatdrop-

    you should have a list of types of surge that there are. like, how shay did her eyes and the flash tattoos and manga faces. and brain surge. and bios on the characters. and pic of moggle. ๐Ÿ˜€ that’s an awesome name. moggle. ๐Ÿ˜€ no illustrations of people though. everyone will be mad at you if their own mental image gets messed up. and that will be disasterous. you could describe physical characteristics. and maybe how big thier cities are. and a pic of shuffle mansion. ๐Ÿ˜€ i wanna live there. and how david got his scar. and maybe a description of special circumstances. like, what they do other than the obvious stuff. and what it was like when the mind rain took place. and how they came up with face ranks and stuff. and why radical honesty is contagious. and more about the floating city. and how to mag lev surf. that would be sooo AWESOME!!!

  194. 13 Jan 2008 at 1:36 pm?!?!?

    wow. where i am (tx, usa), it’s the 12th of january and it’s 8:36 pm.

  198. wow, i dont know if they are still on, but earlier today, around 9:30, I was flicking through the channels. on disney channel (#39) was Harry Potter 1, on SciFi (#40) was The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy, and on TNT (#41) was Titanic. So it was Harry Potter and the Guide to the Titanic.

  200. ROFL xD butt-nugget! Hahahaa! *doubles over laughing*

    NOt that I’m calling anyone a butt-nugget *stifles laughter*

  203. OMG!!! I just went to Borders and got four books.(I know, total heaven on Earth,lol)I got Peeps and the Last Days by Scott-la(Which I will be reading soon) and I got one of those wierd,yet totally fun What if… books I read it already, earlier this afternoon when I got home.What makes it cool is you get to decide what happens to the characters and what choices they make.And yes i am implying that there should be one where there was a choice to decide if Zane doesn’t die!*cough*sigh*gag*choke*cough again*It would be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…….
    FAWESOME! But seriously unless you want me and some friends coming at you with pitchforks and torches you better make the right decison, if you know what I mean.WHO’S WITH ME?
    (HaHaHa! j.k. about the pitchforks and torches)
    I also read I heart you, you haunt me. I LOVED IT! I almost cried, and I don’t know how I didn’t. It was really confusing at first because it isn’t written like a normal novel, but i get it know, I just don’t know how to explain it. If you’ve read it you should know what I mean, but if you haven’t go and read it as soon as you can. It’s really great and I still might cry.( Oh great, here it comes,*tear*sob*sigh*tear*)
    Team Zane/Edward/Jonathon

  207. Nice to know someone’s on my side Bre-la.I put it in a different order all the time though and I know that I’m gonna sound like a total traitor but in actual order(for me at least) it’s Edward then Zane then Jonathon.*gasp* yes notorious Zane fan has just referred to Edward as better than Zane but I can’t help it I like all of them.So the new and improved revised version:
    Team Edward/Zane/Jonathon
    See ya!

  208. I would love to see a Map (pretty much like everyone else)
    I would love to learn more about Davids Parents… like when they were pretty, thier generation of Pretties, all that kinda Jazz.
    Uhh…
    Face Ranks were obviously only in Ayas city, so how was it in other cities after “The Cure”, like Tallys. Were people still choosing to be bubbleheads to? Could they watch Ayas feeds online?

  209. I’d like to have more info on other cities maybe in Africa etc. and how they changed after the mind rain. Like we know that Aya’s city got the whole “fame” thing, did any other cities have anything like that? A map would also be pretty useful and more info on how they created and evolved the “pretty”
    and then
    All About Specials
    The who what when where. How they were started, how the generations have changed. More detail about what makes a special “special” (what goes on in their minds (like we know they feel superior, are prone to violence etc))
    And finally
    ANIMALS
    which are extinct? Do they still have pets (cats/dags)
    DO YOU GET “PRETTY” CATS/DOGS???????

  211. ahhhshhahah no offense to everyone who loves zane…..but i really really never liked tally/zane……..
    w/e thats just my opinion…..i love david, and i liked zanes character but david/tally has always been my favorite and too hear people diss it it makes me a tad sad ๐Ÿ™

  213. I need major help.

    Im going to the book store but i dont no what book to buy!!! I need a really good book that will last me a while.

    When i say a while, i mean at least 4 hours.

  214. This is totally amazing. I think that a glossary would be great. Like a Uglies to English dictionary. Everything that’s in the books that doesn’t exsist or are made up cold be translated to english or explained. That way, you could just look it up if you don’t know what it is while your reading for those lames who haven’t read all the books yet. And I’d read it too and use the words is front of people who haven’t read them so they have no clue what i’m talking about =D

  215. And just to say, I think there should be a fifth book. How could you end the entire series like that. It’s got to just be something to keep us waiting, right?

  216. I read a few of the comments and mostly agree with those. I would also like to know how the Pretty operation got started. Like, who designed it and how it became so widespread. Just generally more info on the surgery.

  218. Maps! Many many maps. And diagrams of all the technology, and blueprints of the important buildings. And on the maps the trail that Tally took alone, and everything.

    Background info: More bout how the Rusty’s world ended and how the Smoke actually began to form. Maybe some more stuff on Dr. Cable, and who actually started giving the surgeries, the testing to show if htey worked or not….did people volunteer for it? Were criminals forced into having a possible deadly surgery?

    Maybe some drafts or left out chapters?? And if you ahev any handwritten scribbles throw them in, i lvoe seeing peoples handwritting (weird, i know)

    Anything that has been in your head and you haven’t let out that has any relationship to uglies/pretties/specials/extras NEEDS to be in the book pleeeeeze =)

  219. you should auction off the original script to the uglies books
    some of us would pay a fortune for it (y)

    hmm there was somthiongg i had to add… ermm
    Oh yeahh. loads off stuff about Zane ๐Ÿ™‚
    everyones full namess ermm.. oh yh i had a massive debate the other day about if new pretties could get pregnant. yeahh. thats it.. i think.

  220. wait. people keep saying IF there will SOMEDAY be a movie. scotts already sold the rights hasn’t he??? its already on the internet movie data base. all they have to do is cast characters and start filming.

  222. yeah, it says its supposed to b realesed this year. that could change though cuz its still in the production stage. i like movies but they never match up to the book. i cant wait for twilight(no offence die hard scott fans)

  224. ya same here.

    what would be soooooo fool is if they relese Uglies and Twilight in the same week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that would be soo fool

    i would so skip school to see them both…….

    Uglies first though……. like duh…..

    he he he

    SoPhIe-LA
    WoRD ๐Ÿ˜‰

  225. Whoa, you guys post alot when I’m asleep until 11:00 ๐Ÿ˜€

    Team Edward/Jonathan/Zane

    But sadly, I just don’t switch them around ๐Ÿ˜›

  226. I don’t want twilight to be a movie, because the book is always better than the movie. And plus the people playing Edward and Bella are so not right for the part. Thats what I think.

    Sorry to be off topic and all ๐Ÿ˜›

  227. I agree with you Bre-la about the people cast as Edward and Bella, mostly Edward though.I mean seriously! HaHaHa!
    Team Edwar/Zane/Jonathon
    See ya!

  228. I meant to put Edward but I forgot to put the d.
    Oh yeah, I started reading Peeps this morning.
    Um… let’s just say it’s…um…interesting.
    See ya!

  229. Uh, i hate it when you go to buy books and they dont have them. I was going to buy 3 diffrent books and they didnt have any of them. I made me mad. And if i dont have a book by monday, my teacher will sign my card because we always have to have a book to read incase we have time after we do work, which we never do, bu what eva’.

  230. OMG!!! I forgot to write this yesterday. Okay, I was at the store and just out of nowhere this guy walks around the corner and he’s older than me probably 15 or 16, but yeah so the super crazy wierd thing was that he looked exactly how I pictured Jacob in my head.(you know from the Twilight series.)I mean like everything about him was screaming JACOB! His hair,skin color,eyes, even the way he was talking to his friends. It was total dejavu!(Even though I am definitely NOT a Jacob fan.)Creepy huh?
    Team Edward/Zane/Jonathon
    See Ya!

  231. Wow. Thats awesome, i mean how you saw someone that looked like him (Edward fan all the way!).

    Me and my friend where outside my car a shool and this girl walked by from the high school nearby and my friend was like, “Omigod, she looks exactly like cutter!” I laughed because it was true, she did. And my friend was like going bazerk.

  232. Ha, thats funny. ๐Ÿ™‚

    But I don’t like there to be movies because it distorts the little image in my head ๐Ÿ™

  233. Well you guys are lucky because all my friends hate books!

    They’re like how did you read that book so fast? and Reading is boring! At the point, I walk away.

    Stupid, lousy book-haters >:)

    Hehe… instead of Stupid, lousy Volvo owner in Twilight ๐Ÿ™‚

  234. i dont get why you guys dont like Jacob. theres nothing rong with him. he never did anything! gosh! seriously. you guys only like Edward cause hes hot. whats up with that?!

    Tally/Zane-la. you shood have taken a picture of him. i took a picture of this guy that looked like Edward. he didnt even notice…ok. so maybe he noticed…i forgot to turn of my blindingly painful flash before i took it…but i got it!

    seriously. he looks JUST like Edward. and you shood see his eyes! oh my gosh! they seriously change colors! its pretty kick. but anyways. sometimes they change on a day by day basis, but usually they change depending on his mood. so one time when he looked at me he was like…glaring. and he seriously looked like he wanted to kill me! it was SO sly. and his eyes were pitch black. it was fawesome

    but seriously. dont not like Jacob. just like Edward more. just dont not like Jacob. cause it bugs me.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜

  235. Okay! Is there like, going to be a movie or something? That would be SO awesome. I think you should add in pictures or drawings or something of Tally, ZANE, David, and Shay. It is a little hard to picture them even with the front cover to look at.

  237. I hate it when people who want to act stupid pretend to be like, “Wow thats so big!” and its like 200 pages. They purposely try to look stupid because they think its dorky to read. Well, its even dorkier when you think that reading 200 pages is a lot, thats like a days worth of reading for me.

    i don’t like movies either. i agree, it messes up how you think of the character. i think the guy thats acting as Edward looks nothing like him!

    I dont like Edward couse hes hot (although that is a total BONUS!!!!) i like because hes:
    Sweet, creing, kind, gentle, protective, romantic, sweet (o i said that), hot (bonus!), funny, cool, vammipre, duh, he doesnt kiss peoples gfs, romantic (did i say that?), and many other words. i hope i put romantic. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  238. when i said vamipire, duh, i didnt mean like hes a vampire and stupid like duh, i ment hes a vampire duh as in thats fawesome.

  239. I totally agree with you Bran-la! That one dude is so not fit to play Edward.

    Don’t get me wrong, Lizzy-wa, I don’t hate Jacob, Its just that I like Edward more ๐Ÿ˜€

    But I don’t get why Bella gets mad all the time. That kind of bugs me, because Edward is the one that always protects her, and she gets mad at him. ๐Ÿ˜ Strange…

  241. okay, so i read like the first ten, so hopefully i’m not repeating anyone who replied after that ๐Ÿ™‚

    i think it would be cool to know what a typical ugly dorm looked like (as well as the schools)

    and also a more in depth description of the usual pretty’s room would be cool.

    <3 Sam

  242. A guide would be awesome! Maps, diagrams, explanations of the technology, the history of The Operation, more about Dr. Cable and Special Circumstances and the Special operation, the Rusty Ruins, other cities, more stuff about The Smoke and it’s history and David’s parents, the story about David’s scar…and that’s all I can think of.

  243. Oh, and how long is a new pretty a new pretty? And what are ugly dorms and school and pretty dorms like?

  245. ok u guys r gonna get yelled at by serafina.(jk serafina) cloggin up the westerdome w/ twilightness. *wags finger* tsk tsk tsk. im gonna clog oon my site if u dont mind so click my name 3 c the cloggage on the twilight movie. * fights urge to type opinion on pattinson*
    when they make the uglies movie they better pick better actors than on the twilight one. must *twitch* leave *twitch* b4 *twitch* clogges scotts blog *with all the strength she has she goes to clog her blog instead of scotts

  248. okay i have a few things i would like to know
    1. the story behind David’s scar
    2.What happended to Maddy and Peris
    3.wasn’t Maddy responsible for the mind-rain; and why was Tally blamed for it all
    4.how old is David when he meets Tally
    5.how did Shay and Fauosto end up w/ Tally and David; i thought just the two of them ran off at the end of Specials

    tootles
    jme-laรขโ„ขยช

    Team David

  249. I definitely want to know more about the structure of the governments. Is everything just city-based, or are their governments above them? Do the borders of the cities touch or is their neutral territory in between? Democratic elections, dictatorship, republic, etc?

  251. I dont like the cast of Twilight. They dont seem like THE people i image. there to unperfect. Edward is so hotter, that dude is ugly!

  255. Yeah, um… Lizzy-wa I would’ve taken a picture but I was with my parents and what was I supposed to do? Take out my phone walk up to this random guy and just be all *snap* take a picture and walk away?I’m sorry to say this but I like the Twilight series better than Peeps. Cuz I just read it and all I have to say is:Thanks Scott for poisoning my all too innocent mind.(I admit it’s my fault for reading it.I actually liked the story but I didn’t like all the details, and I’m not talking about all the different parasites.That stuff doesn’t bug me.I’m talking about the total yuck fest going on throughout the whole book.I mean seriously Ewwwwww!!!no offense, though.)And Lizzy-wa, what do you mean Jacob didn’t do anything wrong?He was like totally all over Bella, even when she said NO and he was trying to steal her from Edward(HaHa Jacob, your diabolical plan didn’t work!j.k.)Yeah and my personal favorite, he basically threatened her with the fact that he would kill himself if she didn’t ask him to kiss her.I don’t know about the rest of you but to me that spells out obsessive and PSYCHO!Again no offense, for my sudden outburst.HeHe. not sure what came over me.
    Team Edward/Zane/Jonathon
    See Ya!

  257. its ok cuz all of us rant, i sumtimes have to tear myself away from my computer to stop myself from ranting.everything u said agrees w/ my opinion though.

  258. well except i didnt think peeps was that bad. i liked it and wasnt that disgusted, it didn’t go into detail or nething, wat really grossed me out was that one part in eclipse pg 445 or sumthin like that, ewwwwww. i was readin that during school, i was all like whisper EWWWW in the middle of class and chris was all like what. and i was all like icky part in the book and hes all like “let me read it let me read it!!!! ” and im all like ur weird
    oops i went all LIKE LIKE LIKE on u sorry

  259. Yeah, I totally get the cake thing though.I just liiked at your blog and posted a comment, but it says that its waitin for something, yet it shows up, very confuzzling, but also very full of fawesomeness!I used the name Edward+Bella4ever.
    See ya!

  261. i soooooo want that when it come out
    i soooooo need to read peeps
    ya
    so
    i love football
    i just had to say that
    dont know why
    oooooh well
    i also love the beatles they are like the best rock group EVER

    i hate home work

    I WILL NOW STOP ALL OF MY RAMBLINGS

    ooooop did not mean for that to be in all caps

    gtg byby ๐Ÿ˜‰

  262. I’m sooooo mad.I went to borders yesterday and they only had Blue Noon in the new Midnighters covers,but I mean who cares if the doesn’t look like Jonathon, he’s HOT with a capital H! I was so dying to get it, but then my dad’s all “Don’t you have that book already?” and I’m all “yeah, but I NEED it!” and he’s all “Okay if you want, I mean its your money.” but then I’m like”All just get a book that I haven’t read yet” and I did, so to console my stupid decision I got on my computer and stared at the picture for a while. Wow, I really need a life.HeHeHe!
    See ya!

  266. wow. i’ve missed a lot over a month.

    that pullman discussion was interesting. how i love religious debates. but they always seem to get off topic into the “controversial” areas, which may be interesting to discuss, but not actually valuable if either side wins.

    i tried to comment. but obviously its not allowed? since the server blew and all. how disappointing. i totally had some valuable input. but.. i guess its all in the past now anyway ๐Ÿ™‚

    oh well. til nxt time.

    p.s. scott. i never liked those guides that accompanied series. seemed lame and a way to gain extra money. NOT that i’m saying thats what you’re doing.. lol.

  267. Haha… Team Edward/Zane/Jonathan/Cake

    Cake! Hahahaha!

    I agree with you Bran-la. Edward is so hotter than that.
    But I’d still go see the movie anyways ๐Ÿ˜›

  268. I just started reading The Last Days.(pg.63)Totally confuzzled though as to where Cal and Lace went.Oh well i guess I’ll find out soon enough.
    See ya!

  269. Basically, maps of her world, and lots of stuff about the plastic surgery and gadgets! also, mybe davids and maddys story, like how they came to establish The Smoke; thatd be cool, just background stuff like that.

  271. a guide to the Uglies would be nifty! i would want to know what a hoverboard would look like, both the normal ones and the Special ones

  272. most things that have been put in here are things that i would like to read,but i’d also like see something that no one has mentioned. What about putting deleted scennes??? like ones that you originally wrote, but then changed your mind, and put something else instead??? That would be totally cool.
    Also, no pics exept a map if possible. because we all have different pictures in our heads of how tally, shay, david, zane etc loooks like, and putting a picture and making it difinite would be too complicated if you ask me.

    -jossy

  273. Some of my friends and I were considering some more guide questions and this is what we came up with:

    Did the Crumblies, or anyone for that matter, have pets?

    What were the restraints of their technology?

    Who invented the Crash Bracelets (We require an entire summary of this person’s life and whether or not they were tricky)

    Zane’s past was one of the big things.

    If you were to make a short, cross-over book, which other book would you do it with (This includes your OWN books)

    Are there Midnighter Uglies/Pretties/Specials?

  274. hey random to my romeo and juliet friends on this forumy commenty thingy
    we just read the part where mercutio dies in class :(……
    i did like him
    besides romeo was being sooooooooooooooooo stupid
    ****lol sry about the romeo and juliet spoilersssss*****

  276. Diagram of the typical pretty pleaaaaaaaassseeeeeeeeeeeeee
    or pictures (man, and woman)
    What do old pretties look like?
    we need pictures, Scott!

    Also, more scientific background on the uglies operation. What exactly do they do? Everything. Short story on what its like to HAVE the operation.

    Please please please!!!! Scott your my favourite author!

  277. *late commenting*

    I’d really like to see maps, as a lot of people were saying. It would be pretty cool if there were something in there like a mini future time dictionary. I don’t know where the idea would really go, since people may have different deffinitions of some words. Also, if there just so happens to be drawings in there you should make pages of their Fashions and the different Pretty looks and craftings of the hovercars and boards. that would be sweet. Yeah all the things I want are pretty much random.

    P.s. I know you said that Extras was going to be your last book on the Uglies Trilogy, but I always want to read a story from the smokes point of view. Like have the main character be someone from the smoke and tell about life and expierences. It just seemed kind of an interesting concept. = o

  278. I want-

    NANA LOVE!! The natural born pretty

    The names of Aya and Tally’s city.

    Locations

    Maps of cities

    What about Croy?

    Is there really a new smoke?

    and finally-

    ANDREW SIMPSON SMITH!!!

    and Udzir…cool name..

    Thanks!

  282. OMG this is sooo exiting! I really hope you do it! ^^ I would love to have pictures of a bunch of the gadgets that tally has in there! and maybe a few of what the smoke looks like if that’d be possible! Also info about Dr. (forgot her name….) would be cool! Like how did she become special? What sort of tricks did she do? and a little more backstory on Zane would be really cool!

  283. When Specials get the sugery, do they just live forever cuase their body is so inhuman? or do they die enventully?

  284. Aside from almost all aforementioned items,
    1. Explanations of all the Pretty-Town cliques

    2. Guide to hoverboards: Pictures, diagrams, explanations. This includes crash bracelets and such. And I would like something showing the proper way to ride a hoverboard. ^_~

    Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขd also like to see before/after comparisons of faces. (Not necessarily character faces, just different types of faces. I was also wondering what the proportions of Pretties were. Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขd like to see a person from littlie to ugly, through all the pretty stages (new, middle, crumbly) and then that same person Specialized.

  285. DUDE THAT WOULD BE SO FREAKIN AWESOME! an Uglies Guide…COOL!!!!!! i read the first 3 books in like a week last year so now im finally getting to read Extras and its awesome…..

    anyway, i’d like to know more about Moggle and eyescans. my friend and i were wondering about skintennas the other day too.

    and the cover isnt bad–i like it.

    “…in the near future, nanotech will no doubt be used in computing, mechanical design, and (because it’s what we upright monkeys are best at) killing each other.” -Scott Westerfeld

    i like that quote!!!^^^^^^^^^^

  286. i think, and call me crazy, that Scott should run another fan story contest. The winner of this contest’s story could be published as a backstory feature on Aya.

  288. about the
    flash tattos
    interface rings
    belly sensers
    hoverboards
    pics peris, and shay and everyone else.
    hover cars
    the pack she carries to smoke in uglies
    smoke
    david

  289. I really want to know where on Earth both Tally’s city and Diego are. But like other people, I don’t want any pictures of characters. If at all possible it would be nice to know how the technology works, but that may be difficult, since this stuff doesn’t actually exist…

  291. Also, I would like to know if Tally’s city has a name, and what Tally and David did between Specials and Extras, since it’s rather obvious that they did something.

  292. I found it easy to imagine the smoke and tally’s city and diego.
    But not so much Aya’s city. It’s kind of confusing.
    Because when it started off I thought she was in Tally’s old city.
    So when I found out she wasn’t I couldn’t imagine WHERE she could be.

  296. ok you people keep asking these questions like davids scar and david and tallys relationship.

    Use your imagination!!!! maybe he wants you to find your own ideas.

    nobody wants to hear “Zanes scar” blah blah blah blah…

    JUST USE YOUR IMAGINATION!!!!!

  298. ok so i don’t know if that last comment was meant to be harsh but that’s kinda how it sounded….& i don’t think he particularly wants us to “use our imaginations” b/c he said in the commentary of Specials that he forgot to put it in the book & promised that he would tell us how David got it someday. also why would people be asking for David’s scar story if they didn’t want to read it??

  299. hehe. yeah. i think what i really want is just anything from David’s POV. and how he got his scar kinda has to be from his POV. ya no what i mean? so i think thats why i wanna no, not cause i really wanna no…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ™‚

  301. exactly. ya gotta admit that wood be foolio rite?

    by the way. hope that poison ivy/oak/whatever goes away Netta-la.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

  302. I’d like to know more about the technology. Some things, like the idea of stuff coming out of the wall, the “smart” rooms, and the rings that track you and the “pings” weren’t really explained, and it was a little hard to pick up on those at first.

    I figured that Tally’s city was a futuristic New York City, and Aya’s was a futuristic Tokyo…is that right? Could you explain more about the locations of these cities, and maybe fill in some of the history between the demise of the Rusties and the recovery and buildup of the world Tally knows? Since the downfall of the Rusty civilization was so severe, it had to have been hard for people to build back up after losing their (our) primary source of power.

    I like the idea of showing us the facial guidelines, and maybe the before/after pictures of the main characters like someone else suggested.

    A brief summary of what happened between the end of Specials and the beginning of Extras, maybe? Or some info on how Tally’s city is progressing during Extras, since Aya’s city is different?

    This is a fantastic idea. Thanks a lot!

  303. Okay Scott, I so need a picture of Frizz and Aya together. For some reason I can get this picture in my head of what Tally, Zane, Shay, David look like but nnot Frizz and it’s really really bugging me.
    See Ya!

  304. I’ve wanted to know something for a while: What about those people that Tally mentions briefly in Uglies? The people who CAN’T have the operation? I forget what they’re called.
    I’d kinda hoped that the fourth book would be about someone like that.

  305. I think you should explain what bubbly and icy mean, and how theyre different, because ive read all of the books, and still dont get it, and you shoula also explain how in extras, it is all about being popular. Thanx Mr.Westerfeld!

  307. Katya,

    I’m pretty sure that Tally lived on the West Coast, because when David and Tally are going to rescue the Smokies(in Uglies), they cross a desert, which David refers to as “Death Valley.”

    And in Specials, the New Smoke gets help from “Deigo,” which I’m pretty sure means San Deigo.

  308. I thought of another question:
    How, in Uglies, does David know what a roller coaster and a Barbie doll are? (Shay says she learned about these from David.) David’s parents were from Tally’s city, so they wouldn’t know this, and who else would be able to supply this information? This has bugged me every time I’ve read Uglies.

  315. Okay just to randomize this page a bit I’ll say this:

    ~~I HAVE A MAJOR CRUSH ON GASPARD ULLIEL!!!~~
    It’s oh so true and it was begging for capitals so yeah, who agrees with me that he’s the hottest guy in the world and the dreamy french accent is just so adorable? Sorry to go all boy crazy on ya.HeHeHe!!! My bff got the new light blue chocolate phone and its so gorgeous!!! I think I’ll steal it from her.(laughs diabolically)
    Okay yeah so I’ll shut up for now.
    SEE YA!!!

  318. I LOVE HIM!!!! HE’S MY ANNIBA!
    OK, explanation on that. I used to adore this character, still do, in a book series and when the character was little, his sister would call him Anniba.
    And when Gaspard played the role of the younger version of my adored character, I called him my Anniba.

    As for Amy, What about -Na then? or -Pa or -Qa (Pronounced Qwah)

  320. ooh curse word alert^
    anywho isnt Gaspard totally fabulous i am seriously obsessed my friend says its kinda pathetic and shes probably right
    oh well
    see ya!

  322. I love the Uglies books. They are very good and if there was a guide it would be very helpful to visualize things. Especially Tally. I don’t know what you would consider an Uglie or Pretty. So if there were pictures of Uglies or Prettys or Specials that would be great. And I am going to read the second book. I hope Tally’s and David’s romance lasts though.

    LONG LIVE UGLIES!!!!!!!!

  325. This time I hope you don’t mean Gaspard cuz I got dibs on him! I mean I’m a few years but it isn’t really that big of a difference. *sigh*(Gaspard is mine!!!!)
    *sigh. while gazing happily at his picture*
    See Ya!

  330. He’s the same person so what are you going to do rip him in half? Either way he’s all MINE! Sorry I can get a bit selfish.LoL!no offense.

  333. Lena-la I’m sorry but I claimed him first therefore he is MINE! We should hecka write him a letter and let him decide.HaHaHa!!!I have like a whole notebook full of pictures and I LUV GASPARD drawings and notes and stuff.oops that was a secret.
    GASPARD=HOTTEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
    GASPARD=MINE!!!!(he just doesn’t know it yet)
    See Ya!

  335. I would really like to know what the flashing tattoos look like.

    I would like to see what the holes in the wall would look like.

    Would the interface rings look like, like class rings.

    I want to also know what the tribe in the pretties book look like.

    there is prolly more i want to know after i think a bout it more.

  337. Oh come on Lena-la don’t tell me you’ve given up that easily? It’s fun fighting over Gaspard.Well at least I think it is. Just Kidding!
    See Ya!

  338. Okay, you kids get Gaspard, and I get Edward. *runs away, holding Eddie above her head in triumph* I just hope they can’t run faster than me… *trips* Shiza!

  343. well a map would be wonderful!! i get really confused about what it looks like. like theres this huge forest then all of a sudden theres the rustys then farther down theres a big field of flowers. like i dont get it. just confusing. i also want to know about the rest of the world. is everyone else on different continents going through the same thing? i’d also like to know more about maddy. like her background and stuff. and for you guys up there, ” Who is Gaspard???”well that’s pretty much it. PEACE OUT.

  345. Ohh. I gots a TON of things…

    Hoverboards. Why they were invented, technical specs, and what’s this about them unfolding to charge?

    Surge. Is surge basically really vamped up cosmetic surgery? Or semipermanent implants?

    History. Maybe spend a chapter going into some more detail about the Rusties’ demise and the 300 years in between the trilogy and that cataclysm.

    Dolls. You know, the edge of the world? What do they do, and why choose dolls for a fence?

    The Cutter’s enhancements. They are basically superhuman, with increased reflexes/strength/intelligence. Maybe include a diagram of Tally’s body with its enhancements mapped out on it?

    And, most importantly, how did you come up with “bubbly” and “icy” and “bogus”? Did it just pop into your head?

  346. I dunno if these have been asked already….
    Do they have any pets? Like dogs, cats, fish, birds, etc. etc.
    Did the people who lived with Andrew Simpson Smith ever get the option to have surgeries after the mindrain?
    How did David get his scar?
    What about entertainment occupatians-did they still exist? Music, acting, theatre, etc. etc.
    Before the mindrain were there any famous modern people?
    Could animals have surgeries? O_o
    How were laws made? Like, what sort of political system?
    Did the surgemonkeys snakes ever bite them?
    Were there any diseases around?
    Did clothes from holes in the walls have seams?
    What exactly did the dolls in Andrew’s world do?
    How old was the average lifespan? How about the oldest person ever?
    Did they ever cure the common cold?
    Who were some of the natural pretties?
    Did people still deal with drug addictions?

    Well….these were only some of muh questions….for all I know they’re too late….but I might as well ask! <33

    You are amazing Mr. Westerfeld!!!! Thanks for these books!! My friends and I will have entire bubbly conversations!! It’s soooo Kick!
    <3

  347. okay i did this last nite at like 11. i didnt like my first post. XD. so here it goes:

    1. interface rings
    2. belly sensors
    3. pings
    4. medspray
    5. hoverboards
    6. transformation from littlie to uglie, to prittie, to special (tallY)
    7. tallys/peris’s scar
    8. postion finder
    9. firestarter
    10. water purifier
    11. flash tatto
    12. eye screens
    13. skintennas
    14. copy of tallys manofestio from Specials
    15. shays note to tally in UGLIES.
    16. the letter tally made shay write in UGLIES
    17. the lesions
    18. what bubbly and icy mean (no i dont have the boxed set yet- thats sunday)
    19. spagbol
    20. background info on Tally, Shay, David, Zane, Maddy & Az
    21. your defintion of UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS, and EXTRAS
    22. all of the covers
    23. wall screens
    24. lots of quotes from all 4 books
    25. hovercars
    26. special circumstances
    27. what cat vomit pink looks like
    28. grippy shoes
    29. how to hoverboard
    30. most of the UGLIES tricks
    31. what tallys dorm room looks like
    32. what tallys dorm room clothes look like
    33. tallys clothes
    34. ranger kits
    35. the little heart pendent in UGLIES
    36. special long range hoverboards
    37. crash braclets
    38. bungee jackets
    39. MAPS!
    40. i only have UGLIES rite now other wise i could add ALOT more.!!

    WRITE A 5 BOOK SCOTT-LA!!!!!!!

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    i forgot those too.

  352. I would love an uglies guide, but you have to think for a second. People like me have pictures certain things i their head for so much time, that if you decided TO make a ma, thn peoples thoughts would be mixed up and jumbled around. It happens sometimes, but I would look through the book, not buy it.

    ZANE AND DAVIS 4 LIFE!!!

  354. OMG. Scott! You should have Uglies become a MANGA! That would be so happy-making! Really. 2424235rt3w64egfq253t milli-Helens. No, no! A WHOLE Helen. TEN Helens.
    Gosh. Do you know how happy that would make me? Really? Seriously. You should find a really cool manga illustrator and hook up with them and talk about getting a deal for an Uglies manga series.
    Dude. That.would.be.so.ICY!

  358. I have MANY AWESOME ideas for you Scott W. and here they are…

    First you should give images of the MAGAZINES that Tally got at the Smoke.

    You should give a history or story about the first person to get the pretty operation.

    Also more of a description on what happens to an uglies brain after the operation, and when they get turned into a special.( and why they are always angry and have super human powers).

    A description on skintennas and interface rings, and how they look.

    More information on Zane’s Death. ( and why Tally let go so quickly)

    Also information on where on Earth Tally’s city is located. A map would be very cool.

    Also a picture of Moggle and a diagram. A picture on Aya’s reserved apartment and her city.

    A picture of the “monkey” extras.

    And last but not least a diagram on the eye Aya has ( on the Extras book cover) ( ITS SOOOO COOL ) ( I WANT AN EYE LIKE THAT!!!).

    but don’t FRET… I’ll come up with lots of more ideas. :~)

  363. im sure this was said somewhere in here, but you should DEFINITELY try and explain how David got his scare (after all, David did say he would tell Tally about that…and never did)

    but of course, maps of anything is wonderful =]

  366. Well ppl, my friend and i just spent a stupid half hour typing up random quotes in honor of randomness day (aka friday) but we kinda like didn’t post it bc the computer thing messed up. So we’ll give it to you tomorrow. heeheehee.

  367. Okay, first of all DO NOT CALL IT TALLY’S WORLD. No matter what. Seriously. It’s, like, the lamest name I have ever seen. (No offense.)

    Anyway, I think most of the info should be left for the reader to imagine for themselves. But if you do write a guide, it should include more information about pretty hairstyles, clothes, and music. Of course these things will all be comvered in the movie, but shouldn’t we know what happened to the media. Before the mind rain, the Pretties couldn’t have dressed in all the same clothes as Rusties. Fashion doesn’t stay the same for 300 years.

    Because I’d totally make the top 100.

  368. Okay. Is there actually GOING to be a movie? Cause i have heard looooooooads of people talk about it, but no info from Scott-la or adverts about it on the television or anything. I have a reeeeeally bad decision it will be a disgrace to the books…:S

    I think the guide is a faaaaaaaaawesome idea. It needs a map! To show where everything is, including the way to diego maybe… I always got stuck imagining the way to the Old Smoke too. The train track with mountains the other side but over the sea.. I got really lost. SO. Maps xD

    Also, like a dictionary of ALL the Uglies – Pretties – Specials Language. Maybe Extras too…

    And then just random stuff about the world.. And Scott-la, you should put in that part that you changed in the book, about how Tally was reunited with Andrew Simpson Smith (: Anything you have to say about how the story was thought of, any troubles you had to overcome, EVERYTHING about how Uglies came to be xD

    OMG much. Scott-la, you should SO write an autobiography. Twould be SO fool!

    xx

  371. OMG. Okay, I am so excited for this to come out. This is the only series of books I’ll read, and I read them over and over. I’m completely obsessed. So, here are my suggestions…

    1. I would love a map of the city. That would help a lot. I always think of it as a lot smaller than it is. Also, like, drawings of the places that she visits most often. I’m always wondering what everything looks like.

    2. I want like, a guide to all the technology that is in Tally’s world. Like, pictures, and just a brief description of what it looks like and how it works.

    3. I need a movie!! I don’t even care if it’s really bad. I just really want it! It will help me visualize it so much!! I swear, if you made a movie, it would sooo be a blockbuster!! TOTALLY BUBBLY!

    You’re books are soo…. thought provoking, and the slang you invented is so… bubbly! lol. My friends and I use it soo much now. Thanks for writing, and I’d love more books!! :]

    ~Hannah-la~

  374. I beileve you would make a bundle if uglies was made into a film
    b/c the book it self gets my heart racing.
    Scott Westerfeld you should really think about it .
    its a perfect candidate for a movie!!!!!!!!

    pease consider it
    write a script!

  375. Can you please explain what the different cliques are about? like in Extras, everytime I came across the word “Manga-head” I wasn’t really sure what it meant.
    Oh! I just wanted to tell you that the Uglies trilogy is the BEST!!! I LOVE those books so much that I bought all four of them! ๐Ÿ™‚ keep up the AWESOME work!

  376. You need to put in the last names of characters like Shay, David, Zane, etc.

    That’s about the only thing I really want to know… that hasn’t been said…

    Love the books…

    They make you think.

    (In a good way)

    รขโ„ขยฅBev-la

  377. ok, well i havent really read any of the other comments… i dont have much time right now… but i would like to know more about the groups in the pretties world. Like the crims and others. What did yhey do for fun. How did you get “accepted” and what not

  378. I want to know what happens to the extras that go into space!!!
    And what happened to Tally’s city.

  379. Maybe you should talk about how people came to think about what really was ‘pretty’ and how exactly people survived if the Rusty oil thing wiped out everyone. Did humans suddenly re-evolve or something?
    Anywho. You could also talk about the Prettytime’s different cliques, but that’s a bit bubbleheaded.
    You could describe the middle pretty operation a bit more.
    Tell a bit more about the clothes and traditions?

  380. I say go with all the ideas, I’ll be sure to buy it.

    Are they making an Uglies Movie?

    One more question: The Uglies Box Set does it come with commetaries?

    Spelled that wrong.

  381. oh forgot something. Tell us what happened to Rusties society, other than the oil plaugue

  383. I want to know more about David. I don’t care what..just more.
    also I would like to know what exactly the falsh tatoos and shay’s eyes look like. more about maddy and shay. you should totally make a fifth book. ahh yes I know kinda dragging the series out, but the end just left me hangin! well only on one thing. what’s up with Tally and David….I wanna know if they get together again and what not.
    *sigh* my mind is brain dead right now and I can’t think of anything. most of my questions have been asked.

  384. i thought some more. How about what the clothing looked like and what it was made of. I could never imagine their outfits clearly. Also, if the human race died in theoil fire thing then how were there people in the new “world”

  385. hey guys….i LOVE these series….except i wish that there was a map or something becuase im having a bit trouble picturing it….like im trying to draw all of it’s setting, and now im getting confused because there are soooo many rivers!=]

  387. I was wondering if you are going to be make a movie about the uglies series? email me back if you are.

  388. they are making a movie
    (but if you think about it, it wont be fantastic, how can it be? we all have different visions in our head about the beauty! and theyll have to get new actors for every movie. blehhhh)

  389. i would really like to know when the fall of the rusties took place… and a world map with all the cities on it… and smaller maps of aya’s city and tally’s city…

  390. oh right… and no pictures of people please… and no movie… that would ruin the whole picture i have in my head….

  391. i dont think any book should be made into a movie….nall of the movies based on books that i have seen warp the characters personality and leaves out so many mportant things… like the movie being made of twilight. I absolutely despise the casting, especially robert pattinson for Edward. Gaspard Ulliel would have been tons better in my opinion

  392. I would love to know what really happened to the uglies for life, the ones who couldn’t get the operation.

  393. Zomg, I cant wait to read this!!

    I had really liked the idea of Tally and David in UGLIES, but as I read through Pretties and Specials I liked Zane and Tally way better. They made a better couple. So.. I don’t really like the idea of Tally and David going out anymore. Anyways, is there guna be a 5th book?? Well… you shouldn’t make a 5th book, you HAVE to make a 5th book!!

    Is there guna be a movie on Uglies? If so, I cant wait!!

    And I really wanna know what Shay’s surge in her eye at the beginning of Pretties look like… and what the flash tattoos would actually look like…

    Maybe you can.. like write a different ending for specials.. like.. ZANE doesnt die!! (<– for those who don’t want Zane to die)

    Shay and Fausto seem to make a good couple..(?)

    Q: Why was SHAY made the “boss” of the cutters?!?!

    And like, by your vivid descriptions, I gotta pretty good idea of what a Special would look like… but still, I REALLY wanna see a real picture

    Q: What happened to Tally and Peris’ friendship?

    <3 Brianna-la

  394. While this seems like a wonderful idea. Most people visualize books in their head. So for me this book would ruin the visions in my head, how i feel the story goes. Good idea for some but I would not buy this.

  395. I’d like to know what the Smoke looked like in all three of the books and a map from pretty and uglyville into the ruins. All the different kind of cliques in Newpretty Town. And LOADS of background info on EVERYONE!!! Like how David grew up. PLEASE TELL US HOW DAVID GOT HIS SCAR. I think that would be bubbly!! everything about flash tatoos and eyescreen, and all about how pings worked. Are they like texting or are they audible? Write more when it comces to me.

  396. compilations of all the advanced technologies in Tally’s world… and the new ones in extras…

    the eyescreen, which is cool major… and the ping thing… the flash tattoos, all those things… hoverboards.

    &kudos on writing an amazing “trilogy.”

  398. I would like to know of other economies in the rest of the world.
    Like I know there is a Reputation economy in Tokyo, but what about the rest of the world? How do the rest of the cities function?

  399. I Would like a book that happens before Uglies like about Maddie and Az, how they started the smoke etc. That would help alot and is The Book going To Be A Movie?

  400. Ahhh…your books are wonderful, and your writing (in my opinion) improved over the cities-I am a dedicated fan of yours. Contrary to popular opinion, I would love PICTURES, and please not just little sketches, but glossy, detailed pics of typical pretties, their tatooes, one of Tally-wa as she goes through the different stages of her life.(Littlie, ugly, pretty, special) I would love a pic of her friends too, especially David and Zane.
    Oh yes, and alternate endings are always great…I am also a fan of the Tally-Zane relationship…
    I would love more info on Tally-what her plans are for the future and all of that.

    Also, loads of pics on the gadgets and the cities, that would be greatly appreciated.

    :] Just some suggestions…
    Oh-and a movie series!(please do not try to cram too much in a single movie…*cough* Eragon *cough cough* Because that would be a disaster…But a movie would be grand. You must be in complete charge of it though, otherwise im sure it would be terrible.
    I think I would like it the best if it was computer animated…but not cartoonish-kind of like the final fantasy movies. yeah, that would be cool.
    =]

  401. i have two questions about extras. first how did you come up with the characters names. particularly aya and hiro. second of all, in the beginning you wrote something about an alternate meaning to the word trilogy, so what is it exactly.
    thanx, luv the books by the way

  402. My only questions that has been haunting me befor i even read the book is who are the people on the covers?

    ON Uglies:
    I am pretty sure that girl on the cover of the book is Tally but I want to know for sure

    ON Pretties:
    Who is that GUY on the cover!?!? My friend says it’s Zane but then my other friend thinks it’s David. I think it’s Peris but i’m not sure.
    ALso who is the girls on the cover of Pretties?

    On Specials:
    Who is that girl?? Is it Shay or Tally( or some random person).

    Note to people who dont want pictures ..

    Sorry if u dont want pics but I really do want to know who the people on the covers are.
    And a pic of David!!

    Note To Scott Westerfield ..
    These are the BEST book ever!!!!

  403. I have another question ………………

    IS THERE GOING TO BE A MOVIE??
    I saw that there was going to be one .. but it was on wiki( wiki cannot be trusted)

    I would so DIE with excitment if there was going to be one!!
    Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras r awsome!!

  404. I agree with DavidandZaneLuver who are the people on the cover???????????????????????????
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    .

  407. I agree with DavidandZaneLuver.

    a. if there’s another book (please i beg you if your listening scott) TOTALLY a pic of David on th cover!

    b. OMG!! totally hyperventalating right now!!!! (yay me big word!) i would so piss my pants if there was a movie!!! have u seen wat they can do with affects these days!?!

    p.s.- this has been bugging me, if three books is a trilogy, wats four books? a quadruplogy??

  408. i decided to google the whole movie thingy, and this is what i got. is it true? cause if it is i’m like, SUPER excited but now that i think about it, it’s might mess up the mental picture i have of everything and everyong in my

    headhttp://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15132

  410. I agree with davidandzaneluver
    who is that guy on the cover of pretties
    and who is the girl on extras

  411. Springdale-
    -wa’s -la’s theres a post on it called Extras Suffixes find it and you will understand.
    -Zane is on the cover of pretties.
    -Aya is on the cover of Extras.

  412. I’d really love to read about Dr. Cable’s history. That’d be super neat, in my opinion.

    General society info would be interesting, too. Like, what kind of social behavior is the norm in regards to family relations, because I can tell that the way families interact within each other is definitely different than what we have now. Y’know. Things like that.

  414. I would love to know more about the history and geography. I didn’t read all the way up, but I’m guessing they’re in California? At first I was sure they were on the East coast (roller coaster made me think Coney Island). But the vocabulary sounds so 80’s valley girl and the landscape seems to fit West Coast the more I think about it, and they end up in “Diego.” She mentions being close to the equator…?? Unless she’s close to Ecuador, Colombia, or Brazil I’m assuming she was being facetious.
    ~And where are all the wild animals you would come to expect roaming around? I remember the one mention of a wolf, but are all the big predators gone?
    ~I think the same people who developed the whole society after the oil plague are the same ones who developed the plague. Just my conspiracy theory LoL. They were their own version of Smokies, saw what was wrong with the world and did what they had to to save it.
    ~And an update on Tally’s poor parents. Do they think she just dropped off the face of the earth?
    Looking forward to reading an Uglies Guide……
    Thanks.

  415. Ok, so i agree with most everyone here! I soooooo want ZANE BACK!!! I mean seriously, he was so WOW! And Him and Tally..So CUTE!!!! And now UGH!!! I never really liked David..Don’t ask me why cause i don’t know. I just never really liked him and then when Zane came along i was all YES! finally Tally has someone to be with! Then YOU KILLED HIM!! I was like, WHAT??!!
    I kinda get the reason why you killed him ( so Tally could learn a lesson) but, you should so like, write another book where Aya finds some kind of way to go back in time. She shares it with Tally. The whole team goes back in time and saves Zane….but, in the process they make mistakes that cause some other big problem.
    Oh and about the Guide, LOVE THE IDEA! I would so read that. And if i had to i’d write my own 5th story about Tally bringing Zane back to life and then just have it for my own enjoyment.
    so thx.

  416. what are all the names of the book cover models? i wanted to really know and r u going to post answers that the others asked?

  417. What are middle pretties’ lives like?
    I personally want to see a picture of a hoverboard. and flash tattoos. Those are awesome. I love all the technology, so more info on that!
    Is Tally’s city in California? because in one of the books it mentions Death Valley.
    A little more description of the characters, hair color, etc.
    I had a bunch more…why can’t I think of them? Oh well. maybe i’ll post later when i have more ideas.

  419. hiii ppl!

    oh em gee i am in love with these books
    i just finished reading The Last Days
    it was an amazing book

    i have more questions then there are stars in the sky.
    but i cant remember them all

    i was to know more about
    -hoverboards
    -sneak suits
    -ZANE! i love him. why did he have to die?
    -much more!
    (ill post when i remember)

  420. Hi,
    I think that scott should make a whole book behind the scenes of Tally and David what was happening between them will they ever be offishally together again im in the middle of reading extras and im liken it but what is happening with them to wile this other stuff is happening does David find another girl what happend to his mother and all the other smokes i want every detale wile i like Aya and her adventures i miss all the old carictors!

  421. And i do agree with yall i think Zane should come back he is one of my favorite cariktors him and tally were perfect for each other and hey maybe david should hook up with Aya after all she is like a tally from back in ther day and shes how do you put this…..normal hes only like 6 years older than her or maybe 7 and i think some how they should bring back Zane after all we all afell in lov with his carictor i meen realy.PLEASE rite another book about all our favorite cariters from your Uglies series

  423. i would love to know how the wallscreens work.
    also the hoverboards (including specs and diagrams)
    i would love to see the structures of Uglieville and Pretty Town

  425. so, i agree with everyone on this board when they ask WHY DID ZANE HAVE TO DIE. most heart-wrenching experience of my life
    he was my favourite,
    also, why did Tally have to be such a special when she was looking at Zane and saw him being so weak and then she went and jumped into the lake, SERIOUSLY SCOTT!

    oh, and i didnt read all the comments so i dont know if this had been brought up before but,
    if Extras was meant to take place in Asia,
    and when Tally arrives she talks about how different it is there and she speaks ENGLISH, not Japanese,
    what country was Uglies/Pretties/Specials meant to take place in?

    also, please do not include pictures of characters, it’s supposed to be up to us to imagine them, right?

    and one FINAL thing, if there’s going to be a movie, Scott, please make sure they don’t screw it up and disgrace the whole Uglies Series Loving Community

    THNX! ๐Ÿ™‚

  426. You could do something like a 20-yrs later guide, like those funky highschool yearbook updates, of course that might take away from the majesty of the future (by having the stories in the future-past that is,(?) if you get what I mean…)

  427. Ditto to the “don’t screw up the movies” and also, WHAT WAS WITH zane (I refuse to be an all-caps phrase money…) AND his DEATH???

    Plz explain that in the guide so all of us psycho Zane fans don’t have a dither-spaz, and go awol…

  428. I think that you should tell us what Tally does in the 4 or 5 years that is between the Specials book and the Extras book. I was kind-of confused on what was going on in Extras because Tally was so much older. (It made me want to re-read the whole series! I missed Tally-wa!) If you could make a shorter book about what she does in those few years alone.

  429. LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!! absolutly obsessed with them. i liked the stories of tallt though, i really didn’t care about aya.
    srry to change the subject.

    anyway, i thought killing zane was a fantastic touch (srry to anyone this offends) i always LOVED david.

    ok, here’s my list: what made shay so upset that she turned her back on tally and became special;do tally and david end up together (please say YES!!!!!); lots on hoverboards, i always found them fascinating!!;how do specials know how to twich their fingers and what the twich will do; lots on david’s childhood!!!; tally’s parents; do the people who are born perfect still need to have surgery to put the leisons in their brains

    i could go on and on and on, but a lot of it would be repeating what people have already said

    love this idea for an Uglies Guide. absolutly genous!!!!!!!!!!!

    i will be the first in line to buy it!!!!!

    (sorry if any of the spelling is off, that was never my strong point)

  431. I bought PRETTIES a little less than a year ago, and i started to read it but because i had never read UGLIES, it made absolutely no sense to me and i stopped. i recently got the first book from my friend, read it, and could not stop reading the trilogy/series after that. i have now finished the whole series and am dying for more! if theres any way at all for the trilogy/series to continue i would be so happy. a fifth book would be absolutely amazing. but the idea of guide is also really cool so here’s what i’d like to know…

    1. everyone keeps saying this but….DAVIDS SCAR. what happened?

    2. Do aya’s and tally’s cities have names? diego seems to be the only city with one, so im really curious as to why.

    3. what do hoverboards look like? & crash bracelets.

    4. TALLY & DAVID. EXTRAS left me wondering what would happen between them, and im dying of the agony of not knowing.

    5. ZANE. in uglies i was totally thrilled with the idea of tally and david. i thought that he would be really good for her, but after things got extremely messed up between the two[the truth came out & maddy started hating tally] i wasnt so sure. so when zane came into the picture and started helping tally to be the best she could be, i thought they were perfect for each other but in the back of mind i kept wondering about david. while reading pretties, i realized that something big had to happen to either david or zane in order to fix that little love triangle. but when zane died trying to become what he thought tally wanted him to be, i was absolutely devastated. it seemed as if tally had just talked to him and told him what she wanted and that she was changing and he was pefect the way he was after their final[it didnt seem that way at the time] kiss in the woods, everything would have been okay. the whole tally zane ending was extremely tragic, their last words having been quite nasty. but after all of that, i still thought that maybe tally and david would have something. so i need more than just a hint in the ending of EXTRAS to satisfy my craving for more info. =]

    6. the city interface & holes in the wall. how do they work?

    7. more info about all the other cities in the world. a map would be completely amazing.

    8. where did the extras come from and where did they get their idea to save the world?

    9. how are the cutter different from all the other specials?

    10. a history on dr. cable & where she is now

    11. more info on maddy & az, what their life in the city was like before they created the smoke and had david.

    12. how david grew up. and what went on between he and shay. and does he love tally like zane did?

    13. the orgin of the pretty surgery

    14. what happened to ho and tachs and the rest of the cutters. where are they now?

    15. like many people have already said…the background on tally and peris’ friendship. their time as littlies & as uglies, before peris turned into a bubblehead. maybe something to show that he wasnt always that way.

    16. where are frizz and aya now? i love their relationship. did he learn to stop lying on his own?

    17. how do the hoverball rigs work? and more about hoverball, eden maru, lai, and all the other sly girls.

    18. how did the extras plan turn out? did lai go up there?

    19. are the faces on the front of the book covers meant to represent character or just random people. who are they if they do represent the characters?

    20. so this isnt really something id like to know, but i think shay and fausto should get together. or shay and croy, what happened to him anyways?

    21. movie?

    22. more info about the mind rain. i understand that it changes the pretties from bubbleheads to free thinking individuals but how did it work? im a little confused as to what it actually was.

    23. hovercars

    24.a dictionary of the language they use. i have caught on and think i understand what everything means but it would be amazing to see the definitions that you intended for the words

    25. more information about zane’s condition–what exactly did the nanos do to his brain? and why did he die?

    26. more about what happened to zane after tally made her choice to save the world/was forced to leave. maybe there is SOME hope that he didnt really die? sorry for the soap opera thought right there but i just really liked him and everything he made tally. but i also really like david too. ugh i dont know.

    27. what happens to aya & hiro fuse, ren, and frizz after the 1000 faces party. do they stay on the top 100 or is that whole system abolished?

    28. whatever happened to sol & ellie, tally’s parents?

    29. zane’s background & his time in new pretty town before tally’s arrival. he seems so mysterious.

    30. more about frizz’s lying life & what drew him to aya

    31. more information about the rusties and pre rusties. info about andrew simpson smith’s village and if there were more like it anywhere. also, if there were any villages like the smoke anywhere else in the world.

    32. flash tattoos. how did they work & what did they look like?

    33. locations in the book. where in the world did they take place?

    34. so this is kind of awkward but could the people living in the cities even get pregnant? i mean tally would see people in the pleasure gardens doing who knows what but were they capable of getting pregant the old fashioned way or did the city decide when and if they could? there is no mention whatsoever of it in the novels so im compelled to ask.

    34. another book please! or two. and anything i cant get. i always get so disappointed when i finish an AMAZING series–when i realize that theres no more for me to read, especially after i felt so connected to the characters and involved in the novels.

    thanks scott for creating a superbly thought-provoking and compelling series, one where the novels that create it actually challenge you to reevaluate the way society works and closely examine the world around you. your novels are thrilling and have helped me, along with others i’m sure, to place less importance on the way one looks and to realize that change starts with one’s self. as david said in UGLIES, รขโ‚ฌล“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.รขโ‚ฌย

    i hope this helped. oh and i would love to be kept updated about what is happening with the series, if that is at all possible. thanks again scott! =]

  432. wow. that was really long. sorry about that. i just have so many thoughts swimming around in my head–and i’m sure i missed a few, but i’ll spare you. ;]

  433. Is there going to be another book in the uglies series like after Extras? I think it would be really cool if these books were made into movies. I love the suspense in all of the books.

  435. more info about (i forget what it’s called so i’ll explain it) when the wall sacns your face and splits it in two, making bothe faces perfectly symetrical and you can adjust your facial features. i walays found those totally facinating and would LOVE LOVE LOVE more about them and pictures of them!!!!!!

  436. i know how all these people are saying bring zane back to life, but seriously, these books have to be at least a little realistic. i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE tally and david together!!!!!!!!!! they are totally 100% perfect for eachother!!!! i was devistated when they were apart and when tally started falling for zane. he’s a nice guy and all, but come on. don’t you think that tally and david were really special together? i love them as a couple!!!!!

  437. I WANT TO WRITE A LONG STORY!
    Ok………..

    One time I was at a carnival at my old elementary school. All I wanted to do was sing on the kareoke machine, so that’s what I blew all of my tickets (exept 3 for cotton candy and going through the squirtgun maze). First, I sang Are You Happy Now by Michelle Branch. That song sucked because I was really off key. The next song was AMAZING! I sang it perfectly! It was Lady Marmalade. A whole bunch of guys started singing behind me too, and when it was over, they all complimented me, and one guy asked me out. I thought it was such a great sucsess I sang I’m with You by Avril Lavigne. My friends joined in behind me and everyone watching complimented us.(Yeah, we are all in choir and are SUPER great singers.) Next, I sang You Give Love a Bad Name, by Bon Jovi. No one sang it with me, I was all by myself, and only one persone was watching. And she left in the middle of it anyway. Next, I sang Lady Marmalade, again, and my best friends sang it with me. Next, I sang Greased Lightning with my friend Al. He sang the melody and I made up harmony parts. After that, i sang Lucky Star, by Madonna, and Car wash with all my friends! It was soooo fun. When I went in the squirt gun maze my friend Melissa and I challenged our guy friends Jason, and Ethan to a challenge. We said which ever team comes out the least wet wins. It was boys against girls, and Melissa and I were bragging to whole time before we got in, but we came out ssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ethan and Jason weren’t even half way wet! We lost real bad, but it was still fun!

  438. U suck tally + david! Zane is the awesomist guy EVER!!!!!! And David is stinky from living in the wild sooooo much.

  439. no offence, but this is supposed to be about an Uglies guide, not what charactures you like or what you sang at a carnival. not trying to be mean, just trying to keep things on track. please don’t murder me for this.

    getting to the point…

    i would like to know more about the holes in the walls, how do they recycle everything

  440. (just so you know i haven`t read Extras yet but i have read the summary on the back, so if i am not correct you will know why)
    i would like to know why Extras doesn`t tie-in with the rest of the series. it would have been awesome to see(or read) about Tally and Aya having a meeting, or even Aya just catching a glimpse of Tally so the readers could get an idea and have questions for you at where she is now

    Thanks,
    dr. clarrissa E. Y.BLOOD

  441. if you read extras, it wull make a whole lot more sense. trust me, i thought the same thing before i read extras.

    i was also wondering if you could do a sort of epalogue.

    or another book wuold be great!!!! please make it in tally’s point of view. i think she’s much more interesting and unpredictable, making the books more fun to read.

  442. Dr. Clarrissa: Don’t want to ruin it for you, but you might just get much more than a glimpse of Tally later on in the book. That’s all I’m saying and sorry if I spoiled you. I just couldn’t stand seeing you suffer…
    Maya: I think Tally lives in San Francisco. IDK why I think this… I know it’s somewhere in California, cause of hints like the one time Shay mentioned Death Valley…
    Tally+David: David all the way! Woot!
    Also, I know the uglies guide is probably done or almost done, but whatever happened to Sol and Ellie? I’m really curious!!!

  444. i just wanna say that these are like my fave books EVER! and a field guide would be an awesome idea since im always trying to explain to my friends about hoverboards and skintemas and i somehow manage to bocth every explanation. i wonder if scott will ever write a fifth book. after all, he did redefined “trilogy”, gosh, i can’t get enough of the world of Tally-wa, Shay-la and company. it’s so sad that the series may be over!:(

  445. hmm i’d basically like everything that has been suggested, and maybe a peek inside zane’s head.

    Most definately an alternate ending where Zane doesnt die. I was never disappointed in these books until he died. But i stilll loooovveee them.

    *I JUST REALLY WANT ZANE TO BE ALIVE AGAIN!!!!! SOOOOOO BADLY!!!!

  446. OMG!! i can’t believe i forgot….

    – more on skintennas
    – more on pings

    THX soooo much for doing this for us Scott

    WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

  447. ya i def want 2 kno bout hoverboards, pings, flash tattoos, specials, the ‘prettymaking’ operation, hovercams (like moggle), skintennas, interface rings, face ratings, whats tallys citys name?, and wat happened to the ppl who went up into space like the sly girls and andrew simpson smith? but these books r SO FREAKIN AWSOM!!!!!!

  448. List of things I would like to know
    1. About David’s scar
    2. A map
    3. What happened to Dr. Cable
    4. Zane’s last name
    5. How hoverboards were invented
    6. What is Tally’s city named

  450. Interface rings – expecially in Extras, the part where she gets the message from Tally and sees it. How does that work? Is it layered on top of the natural world, so the “inbox” appears, or is it a seperate screen, or what?
    All the technological stuff, actually – how eye-screens WORK, how the rooms talk, how the hole in the wall generates clothing. All of that.
    The other Specials – it’s always mentioned vaguely that there are others than the central 5 or so we see in Specials, but I’d like to hear a bit more about the others.
    On that note, some of the other Crims.
    That girl who David is flying with in the beginning of Specials – who is she and why is she significant?
    A diagram of a Pretty would be nice. I have a lot of trouble visualizing it, putting together the humongous eyes and all of that.
    When the oil-epidemic came around, how did the surivors manage to put the world back together? It seems like it’d be a pretty big task.
    Maps, maps, maps! I assume Diego is supposed to be San Diego, but with that in mind it’s difficult to piece everything else together. The Smoke is far north, so I’m assuming somewhere in Canada maybe….which would make Tally’s city in, what, Oregon? Very confusing.
    What happened to Tally between the end of Specials and the beginning of Extras. It was only, what, three years, so how were all those histories written, etc.?
    I could go on and on, but I’ll spare you.

  451. I’m really curious. In Pretties, you mentioned that Peries told Tally about sex. Next we see that Tally is sleeping at Zane’s house. Are Tally and Zane sexually active with each other or not? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself since the second book.

  452. I am pretty sure they are…. the book never actually says that Zane and Tally have sex but you can inter it.

  453. I don’t really care to read through all 452 comments here already so sorry if some of these things have been brought up already…

    1. Okay, so I think it was in Specials where Tally says someting about how populations of cities can’t go up. I’m guessing this means there’s something put in place to prevent population increase….Are familys only allowed to have a certain number of chlidren? If there is what if someone has more children than is supposed to be allowed? Do they still have children the traditional way like we do now or have they changed that somehow, too? (Like Jonas’s world in Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” where familys apply for and are assigned children, perhaps? Maybe not that extreme, but you get what I mean…)

    2. Pictures of Tally (As an Ugly, Preety, and a Special) and all the other main characters, as well. I’ve always wondered what a Special would look like…

    3. Stories of Tally and Peris as Littlies and Uglies

    4. Stories of Tally before the timeline in “Pretties” and “Specials” start (In both books it says she’d been pretty/special for a month, what happened in that first month?)

    5. Hovercars and boards. What do they look like and how do they work?

    6. Pictures of Tally’s city, Diego, and Aya’s city

    7. Information on other places…I’m fairly certeain Aya’s city is in Japan, but surely there have to be other cities across the other continents? Are they all the same?

    8. How Tally’s parents feel about her become Special

    9. Info on where all the important characters are now

    Also, since I’ve noticed there’s quite a few people hoping for an alternative ending…I just thought I’d say what I thought about an alternative ending…I’d actually say don’t do it. I’m usually a sucker for happy, even somewhat cliched endings, but I actually kinda liked the ending of Specials (Zane dying was sad and all that…but it would have been kinda boring if he had lived, I think…)

    Now, an alternative ending to The Midnighers trilogy…That I would not object to, lol

  454. I want to know what age you become ugly/new pretty ect.
    info on what tally’s parents think of her
    are the middle pretties(like tally’s parents) still bubleheaded?
    where’s mandy in Extras
    what happened to peris in Extras
    Where did the operation come from
    what came first, the leisions or the operation
    I WANT ANOTHER BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  455. (This is the same Amanda-la who commented a few days ago…I thought of some other things to ask after I made my last podt)

    Okay, so we all know that once people turn pretty, perfect teeth and eyesight are part of the operation. But are there still glasses/contact lenses and braces avalible for those who can’t make it sixteen years without them? I’d be turning pretty in a little over 5 months, but if I didn’t have my contact lenses in, and if I’d never goten braces, it would be very hard to get by. I’d have to hold everything like an inch from my face to see since my eyes are so bad (and therefore would get a terrible headache from reading anything), and my teeth would be so terrible they’d likely impare my ability to talk and eat. I’ve needed glasses since I was in like 3rd grade, and it was only a few years after that that my vision was bad enough that I couldn’t really function without them. As for my teeth…they were pretty much always a nightmare until I got my braces…My teeth were very uneven, I had an underbite, I even had a tooth that was up much higher than all the others! I imagine they would have only got worse without the braces…

    So yeah….Sorry to type so much..>_>…Just throught I should say way I thought it important to know that…

  456. movie? yes i think so.
    also wouldnt mind seeing backround info on all the gadgets, cities, and whatnot.
    i happen to be doing a research paper for my english class on the settings of both the uglies trilogy and the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand.
    Both books being set in futuristic societys.
    however they have two different takes on the way the society would evolve in three hundred years.
    so it would be great to have some information about the setting of the books.
    plus i pretty much love these books…..i would marry them if they were human.
    ha.
    completley happy-making.

  457. how did you end up choosing the names Tally, Zane, David, Dr. Cable, Shay etc.? They are just so… PERFECT! Also, you should write (in the Uglies Guide) about what inspired you to make the Smoke, and why is it called the Smoke? Why isn’t it called Runaway Island or something?
    Oh! Never mind!! I get it, it’s called the Smoke cause they burn down trees and stuff, right? LOL!!! Well, you should also mention things about why and how Dr. Cable became the person in charge of everything that goes on in the Pretties minds and not someone else! Also, why didn’t anyone agree with Maddy and Az back when they were doctors? Were they all just too scared of Dr. Cable?? AND (last thing) does Dr. C have the lesions in her brain too? Cause in Specials I wasn’t sure if she was saving Tally cause she was just a nice person, or because of the needle Tally stuck into her, because I don’t understand why she would give herself the operation. I finished these books a while ago, but have had these questions bottled up forever! Do you know when the Uglies guide will be out???? I really need to read it!!!!! p.s.- you should also make a Peeps and Midnighters guide ( a 4th book would be better) if you can. That would be fawesome! PLEEZ consider writing some of the things I suggested in the Uglies Guide!!!!! Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚ 8)

  458. a few more things i forgot to mention…

    1. where does global warming stand? i assume it must have gotten pretty bad before the oil crisis, but did they find a way to fix it, or are the character’s ideas of “cold” just skewed?

    2. something about entertainment…i know that they have music, but how has it evolved? what about movies?

    3. i dont want information about where the other characters are now, i like that it’s up to us to decide…but what happened to special circumstances? what about the other specials that weren’t cutters? were they despecialized?

  459. i think it should mention locations, like in what country/ state is tally’s city and the smoke.my friend and i think they are in san fransico,is that right?

  460. I really want to know why the authorities allow them to watch movies and such. And what kind of movies do they watch? Do they have any modern movies or music, like maybe the government assigns people to make some or something. And I totally wanted to know exactly where this was, I think it was in California, but I’m not positive. And if I have any more thoughts, I’ll just come back.

  461. Oh, and are Tally and David going to be back together, or are they kind of together? I mean, I miss Zane and everything, but David is cool! I hope you make another book from Tally’s perspective!!!

  462. ok i was just reading some parts of this so i dont really know whats been already said or not…just wanted to put in my thoughts. First dont have any pictures of people(it ruins most of our imaginations). Second dont explain everything because no one would have anything left to wonder and thats not any fun. Map are a yes and expaining some of the fashion people. I really like someones idea about the dictionary thing. Certain words ane phrases were really funny. I caught myself saying them a few times. But yeah…all i can think of right at this moment. Later gator.

  463. oh yeah…some people are mentioning stupid things that are already explained in the book. that would be stupid to be so repetitive…so dont put those in there

  464. hey again!
    so i was on this website about a week ago and i found out that there is going to be a film about UGLIES. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    anyways, i`d like to know more about the movie and if there are some HAPPY-MAKING things in the movie that we (THE TOTALLY DEVOTED uglies-TRILOGY FANS) might die to know about!
    and another thing:
    i`d like to know more about the pics on the covers of the books!
    who are the people on the covers supposed to be portraying?!
    are these pics the ideas you had of the characters faces?!
    AND!!!!!!!!!!
    why does the change of TALLY`S (if ti is supposed to be TALLY`S) face look so different from her transition from PRETTY to SPECIAL?!!!!!!!!!!????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????

    anyways,
    thanks for making such a great CAN`T PUT THIS BOOK AWAY FOR A MILLI-SECOND,YET TOTALLY HAPPY-MAKING TRILOGY!
    SINCERELY!!!!!!!
    dR. cLaRiSsA e. YoUnGbLoOd

  465. I’ve just got one question….
    How do they have babies??
    If Sol and Ellie are Tally’s parents how did they have her?? Like in a tube or something??
    And however they do have kids can Tally do it when she’s special??

  467. i think i know mic..i think they hav babies..like..well..i cant really no i just dont wanna say how i think they do..lol! i hav a very sick sick mind lol

  468. What do Tally and David do when they sneak out to the garden at the thousand faces party? Where is Tally’s city today? Is Diego San Diego? DOES anyone own pets? Why does Tally act so bossy as a Special? How long is Tally Pretty? Why was Shay so mean, making Tally become a special? When a person becomes Special, do they get a special lesion that makes them rude and mean? How old is David? What is David’s reaction to being called an “Ugly face”? Explain as much about the technology as you can; it’s a bit confusing! Doesn’t Maddy stop the mind rain, Not Tally? What happens to Tally and David’s relationship? Why does Zane have to die? Do people”s broken bones get fixed right away? Doesn’t it hurt really bad to cut yourself? What happens to Peris? Why did Az die? Does Shay have a boyfriend? What happens to Croy? Why doesn’t the gas for Tally’s despecialization work on Tally? Why is Shay mad at Tally for stealing David even if she is a pretty surrounded by prettier people? How could 300 year old magazines stay preserved for such a long time, and with that spore floating around? What happens to you during the operation? How did Tally think herself out of the lesions? COULD YOU DESIGN A WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN DESIGN YOUR “PRETTY” SELF (FLASH TATTOOS AND ALL)? Is David uglier than regular people today? We’re running out of questions (lucky for you)…Are Specials really that scary looking? On the book cover they are nicer looking than the Pretties. Why are people in the future ranked by prettiness while people now are ranked by richness? What is David’s last name? Is Frizz’s hair really Frizzy? Is it Tally on all three covers? And Aya on the fourth? If Pretties’ word is “Bubbly”, and Specials’ word is “Icy” what is uglies’? What animals are alive then and what animals are extinct? Do you need an operation to get an eye screen?
    What’s an eyemouse? What can an interface ring do? Do all pretty mansions float? If Maddy and Az founded the smoke, how did the Boss get there? Can the hole in the wall make old things like ipods, or are ipods history? Why are we ‘the bad guys’? Where did they get all the decorative items in Maddy and Az’s house? If people leave nature alone, why are there things made of metal and rubber and other things that you need nature for? Did Tally only stay at the Smoke because of David? If people don’t recycle the things that the hole in the wall makes, where do all the new things come from? Will you make a fifth book (Not just this ‘Guide’)? Will you answer all of our questions? You’ll need to write a whole book for us!

  469. Sorry about the HUGE comment, but Erica-la and Ellie-wa are very curious… DAVID AND TALLY ARE A PERFECT MATCH!!!!!!!!! Tally should slap Zane and tear out his eyeballs…THEY ARE HORRIBLE TOGETHER AND ARE VERY GOOSHY AND DISGUSTING! Thanks for killing him! You should do a blurb in the guide that explains what happens between Tally and David in the garden! Did Tally’s parents know where Tally was when she was at the Smoke? Why don’t the parents care about their kids once they become Uglies? Why do Uglies believe they are ugly? They just waste a good chunk of their lives waiting to become pretty, and we have to deal with it every day? What’s up with people in the future? Did you know that in another universe this ACTUALLY happened??? UGLY SERIES ROX!!!!!!!! DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * *
    U

  470. :)~HELLO EVERYONE! * *
    ………………………………U

    :)~THIS SERIES TOTALLY ROX!!!!! IF U HAVEN’T YOU GOTTA READ IT!
    ($)~IT’S TOALLY ADDICTING AND I LISTENED OVER AND OVER TO THE SONG YOU’RE THE VOICE BY DAVID ARCHULETA WHILE I WAS READING IT AND NOW WHENEVER I LISTEN TO IT I THINK OF THE BOOKS!!!!!!!!! PUT THAT SONG IN THE MOVIE IF THERE IS ONE!!!!!
    :)~WE’LL TALK MORE TOMORROW!!!!!!!

    PS~ Erica-la=:)
    Ellie-wa=($)
    Both=*_*

  471. i want another damn trilogy of UGLIES I really do im sad im almost dont with special i dont wanna be done i miss the series
    ๐Ÿ™ tear tear and zane died

  473. We Pretties…, besides the fact that those are a question overload to anyone on earth, you need to calm down and not be so angry. I’m messed up and even I thought it was over the top…

  474. :)~Sorry, guys. I just got a bit hyper back then…Zane IS a good guy, but I still hold a grudge against him for making Tally like him instead of David. Tally and David are such a perfect match! I’m glad that they get back together in the end.

  475. Scott Westfield:
    You HAVE to write another book for the series, and not just a guide, too. You need to write a real book! Maybe you should call it “Sacreds”. Sacreds MUST always be protected, even from death, and everyone except total dummies worships the very ground that Sacreds walk on! Tally should become a Sacred or whatever you want to call it, and then try to run away,so EVERYONE is looking for her and she gets caught by Shay and stuff like that…Think about it.

    ๐Ÿ™‚

  477. so i’m confused… there is no planne fifth book of the uglies series? just the guide?

  480. What happened with david’s scar!
    I really want a 5th book!
    This is like, the best series!

  481. iT SEEMS LIKE NO ONE LIKES DAVID, BUT I LIKE BOTH DAVIDAND ZANE, AND I WAS SAD 2 WHEN ZANE DIED, BUT YA GOTTA REALIZE HOW DIFFRENT THINGS WOULD B IF HE HADN’T DIED…OH, I THINK IT WOULD BE AWESOME IF YOU WROTE THE STORY OVER AGAIN IN ZANES POINT OF VIEW, AND ONE IN DAVID’S POINT OF VIEW! …OH, AND SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT NATURAL BORN PRETTIES BEING CALLED NATURALS….I THINK THAT PERSON IS A GENIOUS BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE A GREAT 5TH BOOK!

  482. i LOVE david! when i read it i felt so bad for him because in prettys tally totally just falls ALL OVER another guy. david was always so nice to her. i also HATED tally when she said: “GET UR UGLY FACE OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” It was SOOOO mean! I felt SO bad! he was just trying to SAVE her becuz he LOVES her!

  483. NATURALS….. Great 5th book name!!!! But if Scott doesn’t make a 5th book, I’ll be fine. I will be content ether way, with or without a 5th book. I think he should leave it the way it is though.

  485. W3LL I HOP3 H3 MAKES A 5TH ONE, AND THE R3ASON 4 THAT IZ BCUZ THERE ARE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.
    OH, AND I THINK THIS IZ GONNA B AN AWESOME MOVIE, BCUZ IMDB SAD SOMETHING ABOUT UGLIES BEING MADE INTO A MOVIE SOMETIME THIS YEAR!!!!!…..I HAS TO BE DIRECTED BY SCOTT THOUGH…..I REALLY HOPE THIS MOVIE IS GONNA B AWESOME, IF THEY MAKE 1.

  486. alright… if all the rusties died… how exactly did this new world begin?

    i would LOOOOOVVVE a movie of all 3 books (if done correctly by scott)

    what acctual city is the rusty ruins? i have kind of been picturing new york.

    how old do you have to be to not be considered a new pretty?

    what happens to Dr. Cable?

    i havn’t read extras but i have heard its not the same characters. i was wondering about new books with the same main characters? please?

    what exactly happened to the rusties?

    i acctually kinda like the “naturals” idea. props to risa-la!

  487. What do those nano things that eat everything up look like in specials? i’d like a to know about the sly girls like each indivual. i can’t really think of any more! and when does this book come out!?cant wait!

  488. I’m wondering:
    ~Can people grow taller or get gray hair and stuff on their own, or does everyone have to get a surgery for that sorta stuff?
    ~Can you only have kids when you’re a middle pretty?
    ~Are there such things as middle specials and crumbly specials, or do specials basically live forever?

    I NEED SOME ANSWERS!!!!!

    Naturals is a good idea for a new book! ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ˜‰ *-*

  490. DITTO!!!!!!! I totally agree with u, Bethany!

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    P.S. Does anyone know how much longer this blog will be up? I hope enough time for more questions! I’m almost done with the series and I’m sure more questions will come up…

  491. Hello!
    I love the Uglies series! I am currently on Specials. So far, so good. Your (Scott Westerfeld) ability to create such amazing stories fascinates me. I hope you read these, Mr. Westerfeld, because I have some advice for you. Extras is really well… exta. It didn’t belong with the rest of the books. I know I haven’t read it yet, but I’m going by the summary and my friend’s opinion. I know Extras is about some random girl that has never been mentioned before. The past three books have all been about Tally and her friends, so where did this Naya girl come from? I don’t believe it is appropriate to have a whole series based on a certain person/persons, than make a concluding book with whole new characters. It’s like starting a new series. I wish you would’ve written more about Tally and her friends, but I’m a little late when it comes to this wish. I am so upset the series is over, but I wouldn’t be happy even if it ended at book one-hundred! If you could’ve come up with more about Tally, even if it took five-thousand books, I would read them all. Your stories are so wonderful, the way you come up with these made-up things like the recycle floors in Uglies. It must be fun, coming up with all these imaginary items and a whole new world. One last thing, I TOTALLY think your books should be made into movies! They would be great! A little sci-fi, some romance, a pinch of drama, and a whole lot of action! You should ask someone about making your books into movies, see what you can imagine in the theater! ๐Ÿ™‚
    Thanks! (If you read this)
    Taylor-wa
    PS If anyone likes my article, post something on this blog saying so. I would love to hear your comments and would most certainly write back.
    I HEART UGLIES!!! <3

  495. Rex-la
    I would like to talk to you if you are still online, I want to ask you some stuuf about Extras. This is UAIM! Uglies AOL Instant Messenger! Haha LOL!!! So Rex-la write back ASAP!

  503. o man i thought i was 500! o well
    well okay heres some more questions
    do u want a movie?
    did u wish tally was in extras?
    rate the series 1-10
    wat was ur fave book?

    ok answer theseplz!

  505. ok feel free 2 answer whenever im going 2 eat but my computer will only be like 4 feet away from me! ill check the blog when im done okay?

  507. ok! plz ask me sum questions! i wanna answer sum! plzplzplz! just blog sumto me okay? idc wat u ask! just plz give me sum questions!

  510. yes plz! thats exactly wat i wanted! plus read my article and tell me if u like it! ask away!

  511. o btw ive only read uglies, pretties, and part of specials i just started the series not 2 long ago

  513. i sooo hearted uglies
    9 out of 10
    NOOOOO i didnt know that!!!! o well crud i didnt know!!! noooooo!!!!!
    i kinda guessed it though

  515. well im guessing its because hes mentally retarded rite? the whole nanos thing rite? plz tell me no one kills him! TELL ME YES!

  524. hi! i wanna talk too! omg is there gonna be another book in the series??? anyone know? well… i could answer questions since i red(and loved) the books.. ya reply if anyones here

  525. IDK IF IM ON T3AM DAVID OR TEAM ZANE, BUT I THINK I MIGHT LIKE DAVID A BIT MORE….BUT STILL I REALLY REALLY LIKE ZANE SO….PRESENTING THE NEW TEAM DANE…
    OR TEAM ZAVID (LOL) EMAIL ME @ ZANDYBLA@YAHOO.COM(SAME 4 YAHOO MESSENGER) IF U WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SERIES (IVE READ ALL THE BOOKS)

  526. O.K. I have a couple more questions: ๐Ÿ™‚
    ~Do those people celebrate any holidays? Even Birthdays?

    ~What are some things that they have, that we also have
    (including PETS)?

    PLEASE ANSWER SCOTT WESTERFELD!!!

    P.S. Sorry, I really didn’t know how to spell your name… ๐Ÿ˜‰

  527. Hey Scott-la PLEASE make another book! Maybe something about Tally , David, Aya, Shay, and Fausto bringing Andrew Simpson Smith back to his home in the wild, and finding Peris!!! maybe called ‘reunited’? And maybe they visit Zane’s grave (If they have graves then) And they see Zane’s ghost! (I know this is a little weird but i have a big imagination) (Im also wondering what happened to Croy) Maybe Zane tells them a secret and then he dissapears without telling them how to find it. While they are searching for it they find Croy, and find Zane’s secret at the remains of the original Smoke! maybe they could rebuild the Smoke and bring Maddy back to help. (Even though they have no reason to run away, since there are no more specials or bubble-heads) Maybe they are running away from all the hovercams? (;
    PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!!!

  528. Nice idea Ellie-wa! The fifth book needs the original characters, but a LOT of action! If the fifth book will be the last, you have to make the ending good! In Extras it just leaves you hanging. You need an ending that will make everyone content. Like when you’re eating cookies and need a big glass of milk. The milk makes you sleepy, and the good ending makes the readers happy. If you ever need an opinion or help, I’m someone to go to. So is Ellie-wa! I may be young but I’ve read many books and know what gets attention and what doesn’t.

    ๐Ÿ™‚ Eri-la

    P.S. If you don’t write a fifth book, you’ll let down millions of fans! Just think of all those broken-hearted people! ๐Ÿ™ (Hint, hint) ๐Ÿ˜‰

  531. A fourth midnighters book!!! Lots of maps . A lot of stuff about recent history of other places in world.

  534. OK, Ellie-wa, I’m on.

    Now, I have a couple more questions.
    ~……..ummmm…….
    Sorry, I can’t remember them right now. ๐Ÿ™ I’ll check back later when I do remember them. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Toodles!

    Eri-la ๐Ÿ™‚

  536. Right now I just want to test out these smilies, so pay no attention to me.

    Eri-la

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    PS How do you do all of those faces? Like the devil one and the bug-eyed one? Just wondering…

  537. ummmm…..

    tally & zane

    stop faking stuff

    i know this is not your real name!!!!!!!

    and if that is tally on the front cover of the book uglies

    she is not ugly

    and for anybody who havent read the book UGLIES OR PRETTIE

    ORSPECIALS
    i recomend you to read it ……… it is really good

  539. what exactly do pretties look like?
    there should be a picture of one.
    you have said that they are extreme and if we saw one today we would probably find them quite weird looking…but the book mentions natural pretties…i really wana know what they look like, and how tall are they? the book says tht tally was taller than david after she became pretty..was david just short? or are all pretties supermodel height?

  540. Hmmm… maybe stuff like what may go on after the end of Extras(Tally and David). Definitely a map and pictures of people(sketches are excepted). Maybe like a profile for each character, with height age and all that stuff. OH! And pictures and a diagram of a hoverboard and hovercar. Maybe one of the hovercams too. DAVIDS SCAR! Have to have that. I do also agree on the fifth book thing. It keeps you wondering about BOOKOO stuff! Anyways, a diagram of pretties and specials. Oh and a pictures of the Extras(freaks)….

  542. Hey first of all I was wondering if you ever thought about the Uglies series going big screen? And if you should do a fifth book it should be about Zane and when he was an ugly. oh and I have a thought why didn’t zane say he would become a special but only if could take someone with him, like tally and then he wouldn’t have died( i think)

  543. 1 word: Shay

    Anyways, maps of all the locations would be awesome, especially Aya’s world, b/c I don’t have as good an idea in my head of how her City works.

    Also, maybe do some short story bits, like the extras in space, stuff from the perspectives of other characters, and the end of Rusty civilization.

    Actually, I want a 5th book, titled Rusties, about that, but this would work as well. ;D

  544. Hey I was wondering if you could some how:
    1)Make a movie of the uglies series if you have thought of that(i know the perfect person to be zane even though he is a little small)
    2)in a biography thing put in what each character looks like in color (i hate black and white for no apparent reason
    3)explain/draw a picture of what tally’s dorm looks like and same with zane room and every thing that is in there such as the hole in the wall
    4) and ofcourse explain the parties which sound like a hole bunch of fun!

  545. ok i think #3 and 4 are good. Number 1 and 2 i hate, no offence to you or anything. I don’t want pictures placed into my head of what the characters look like. And a movie, I think if an Uglies movie came out Andrea-la and i would find someway to protest outside every movie theatre. Even if we got kicked out. Because that would be seriously EVIL of scott-la to put his books to such a low level…

  546. i cant believe they r actually making a movie out of uglies!?!
    y?! scott-la y!?
    oh and if tally and shay were unfamiliar w/ aya’s city’s reputation economy wat were all the other cities like?

  550. There should really be an alternate ending, where mabey zane doesn’t die, and he goes to find Tally, and when he does David is all heart-Broken… Suprise us.

  552. I think that there should be a map of the city, AND how many cities are actually left in the new world? before mind rain.

    i didnt want Zane to die! although, at the start i didnt like him. he seemed to just like her becuase shes interesting. then, he did the operation JUST because Tally found him yuck, and then he died, i was like, OMG NO!

    and i dont think there should be alternate ending btw

  553. and HOW can they make a movie of Uglies when the Pretties are more beautiful than models? because models are only semi-pretty.

  554. An alternate ending? No way! I loved the ending! (Yes, I’m glad Zane died. I hated him.)

    Gordon-la, I thought the same thing with the Twilight movie on vampires, when no human is supposed to equal the beauty of vampires, and so I thought that at least they’d choose outstanding people, esp. for Edward, and touch them up well, but- they’re disappointed me. ๐Ÿ™

  557. How do you know what your name ends with like Tally-wa, or shay-la? will this be a movie i would love to play Tally or anyone really caause the books are amazing. ive read uglies and pretties can’t wait till i read the rest you a great author!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  558. Hannah, if your name has an L in it, it ends in -wa. If it doesn’t have an L in it, it ends in -la.

  559. Yay Sella-wa! thanks for agreeing with me!

    i was a bit disapointed with the choise of Edward. it wouldve been better if Meyer chose the actors, because she would know better.

    but i was thinking…..weird i know….but who would win out of a Special (Sayshal) or a vampire (out of Twilight). its hard haha

  560. Oh I thought about that for a LONG time and I came up with the answer!! Specials would win. Here is my long list of reasons why:

    Specials have a lot of powers that Meyer’s vampires do…sharp teeth, strength, really good muscles, sharp senses and reflexes, speed…so which one are better, are more powerful? If they met in a fight who would win?

    There are a few things that vampires have that Specials don’t…they have venom in their veins and they can bite. Also, specials can be killed like a normal human, but it takes more work to kill a vampire, because they’re dead.

    But also, Specials have things that vampires don’t…like the rewiring in their minds, which can be really useful in an attack…and sharp fingernails. Plus they have hoverboards so they can fly, and other high-tech stuff.

    So if Specials and Vampires came together in a fight, I think Specials would win…they have the advantage of flying and they could cut the vampires to pieces with their razor-sharp teeth and nails. Their teeth is probably as sharp as a vampire’s, so they would be able to cut through vampire skin.

    Does it make sense?

  562. I was thinking the same thing!

    I really like the idea of a “cruel beauty” and it would be so cool to have that! But its not very friend-making is it…..

    Even though the Specials have lightening quick reflexes, the Vamps are SUPER fast. But i guess (in the Specials book) when Tally caught those arrows or whatever they were, they were SUPER fast as well.

    And yeah i agree. The Specials are way more high tech than the Vamps which helps a lot lol.

    So i have some more questions ๐Ÿ™‚

    What music (apart from when Fausto is blasting techno in the skintenas) do you think they listen to? i was thinking maybe….either really basey techno, or classical. you know, like minor classical.

    Would they have long hair? Or short hair so it doesnt get in the way?

    and i love the sneak suites!

  563. I think they have short hair, so it doesn’t get in the way…and I thought that they listened to rap-like music, but that’s just my opinion. Lol.

    I just thought of something, though…some vampires have their “special powers” (like Edward’s mind-reading, Alice’s future-prediction, Jasper’s emotion-controlling, etc…) so that’s another advantage they have over Specials. Especially Jane.

    OMG I FINISHED BREAKING DAWN IT WAS THE BEST BOOK I’VE EVER READ!!!!!!!

  564. i know aye! omg omg! i read it after 3 days, and it is seriously the best finishing book ever!!!!!!! LOVE IT!

    hey do you have facebook or anything? it might be easier to talk then ๐Ÿ™‚

  565. Ahola! Long time no see…or type. We still think that u should make a REAL fifth book, Scott. And a website where u could design ur own pretty face and do lots of other stuff from the books. U would get lots of visitors. Thanx!

    Eri-la and Ellie-wa (a.k.a. We Pretties…)

  566. Yo SCOTT, what I personally wanna know is info on the time period portrayed in this book. OR maybe you could tell about the pictures, objects, or materials that illustrate the elements in this book,”Uglies”.

    Also, I’d like it if you could tell me about the geograaphy, weather, culture, and history of the book’s setting.

    Do you know any music that would reflect the book or its time?

    Anyway, I really, really, REALLY need this info for a school project! By the way, I really liked the way you write! (Don’t tell my peeps!)

    P.S. Please tell me more info about your life and other works!
    (You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to! I really don’t want to sound demanding about it!!!!!!!!)

    Thnx

  567. well when i read the book and think of where they live….im thinking like The Island? you know, the way everything is. interior, ideas ect ect. and for music….probebly Hitman movie soundtrack or The Island movie soundtrack.

  568. i always wondered, whose the guy on the cover with tally on the Pretties cover?
    and it IS tally on all the covers besides aya on extras right?

  569. i was also wondering, do you think that you will write another book after extras? following tally’s story again or picking up from where aya’s left off with tally with her?

  570. OK I have a important question
    Why in Extras is the main character have to be Aya I mean she is ok I guess but I WANT EXTRAS TO BE ALL ABOUT TALLY!!!!!! Aya can be in it but TALLY HAS TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER I LOVE TALLY Aya worries to much about her face rank WHAT DOES IT MATTER

  572. Taylor-wa I loved what you said I LOVED it I totally agree with every word it is like you read my mind I mean make it a movie and he can make millions of books and I would read them all and I do not like how aya is the main character of extras I AGREE I LOVE TALLY AND HER FRIENDS

  573. id like to see how the hoverboards, bungee jackets, interface rings, and all of the weird/cool gadjets from the series work. id also wanna see who came up with the idea for the surgery and tally’s “perfect world”. other than that, i cant say…. ive only read uglies so far

  575. you should have pictures of what everyone from all the books looks like.(frizz,tally,aya,zane,shay,hiro,ren,peris…)

  576. my friend interested me in the books. they absolutely ROCK!!!!! when i read Extras i just LUVED it. GREAT BOOKS!!!!!!!!!

  577. hey ur books rock my sox and it took me three whole weeks to finih all the way from uglies to extras i love em!!!!!!

  578. I would absolutely love to know more about mag-lev riding and the physics/ of hover boards (again because it was kinda in the books)

    Also about how the hoverboards push off(?) of the metal in the ground… and then there’s all the characters… maybe an index and biography pages on the characters

    Physical/Mental Characteristics:
    Past times:
    Fave food:
    Talent:
    Brief life story…AMAZING BOOKS!

  580. ok first of all I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after i finished the twilight series this summer, i thought there wasn’t gonna be another series as good as that. then i went to bookstores to like find books to read since i havent read in like years after breaking dawn. then i saw uglies, pretties, specials, and extras. well i remembered a friend of mines read those books for her book report(warning: this comment is gonna be longgggggggggggggggggggggg) so i decided to give it a try. and i thought uglies was pretty good. then i went to borrow uglies pretties and specials at my school library. and guess what????? ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME! i love tally david and zane. some of u hate david some of u hate zane. but i don’t hate either of them. i think they’re both perfect for tally. (this kinda reminds me of twilight) like david likes her for who she is and zane does too. at first i thought zane only liked her because he wanted info from her. but then in specials he went to get surgery so that he and tally could be together again. and then he DIES! OMG Y DID THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN, SCOTT????? well im pretty sure it happened to teach tally a lesson. but u could’ve done something less cruel. like he disappeared or somehing and u don’t have to tell us how he disappeared or anything. i was reading that part in math class and i almost started crying! its like dumb (i know)but it was so sad. all he wanted to do is be normal again and be with tally again. but never happened. ok well i kinda imagined Zane as the guy i have huge crush on. i’ll write more later g2g

  581. debbie-la: that was long! last year this girl was reading uglies& i picked it up and started reading it……..(u r probably thinking i m going 2 say how great it is right) the 1st thing i said was “this is really stupid& boring. why r u reading this? do u think its good or something?” i now hate myself 4 saying that cause it is an AWESOME book &series!!! lol…….that was my 1st impression of Uglies, but not my last!!=D

  582. Okay, I’m dying to know why you put the last book in Aya’s point of view and not Tally’s. I know that some of it had to be in Aya’s because of the background about how she got the extra story in the first place, but I want to know what happened to Tally in the end. I know you said on the last page of extra’s that her and david were kind of ‘together’ I guess. Of course, I’d like to know more though!! I feel like I was left in the dark, and I have a feeling you won’t be writing any more stories, so could sort of an ‘epilogue’ be in this guide like what happened to all the characters. Who went to space? Who ended up together? Are Tally and Aya still going to be friends? And much more!(:

  584. I agree with almost everyone. I don;t want pictures of the people though. You see I already have these images of them in my head, and if I saw how the were supposed to look I would probably be disappointed. Maps. It was so hard trying to picture where everything went. How did David get his scar? What happened to Ho? What happens to Aya’s and Frizz’s relationship in the end? Does Hiro ever get on the top thousand’s list like his sister with only a single digit?

    I have many many more, but for now I think I’m gonna stop.

    P.S.
    IS THEIR GOING TO BE A FIFTH BOOK? PLEASE PLEASE!!

  586. 1.maps
    tally wa’s city
    aya la’s city
    Extras island
    mag lev train tracks
    mountain hide out
    to Smoke
    of Smoke
    2.how they work/ diagram
    hovercam
    hoverboard
    mass driver
    mag lev train
    flash tattoos
    3. scetches of
    pretty faces
    special faces
    cutter faces
    manga faces
    4.random stuff
    nana love
    peris
    maddy
    croy
    ren
    hiro
    Sly Girls
    cliques and how to get in them

    ps 5th book would be happy making
    no movie it would be hard to make and look awulf
    http://inventorspot.com/articles/girls_get_anime_look_with_extrawide_contact_lenses_16872 go here and see manga head contacts
    http://inventorspot.com/articles/get_superhuman_vision_bionic_eye_10014 go here and see eyescreen contacts

  587. 1. there should be more information about how the cities really work. like, we all know about wardens, bashs, and minders. but we don’t really know the back ground stuff, like where they get food from, how highspeed slidewalks work, and how safety sparklers and fireworks are so safe.
    2. i’d like to know more about the other cities in the world and how the operation can tear peole apart and make them “beautiful” without killing them. i mean, if specials have their bones replaced with aircraft-material, that would require taking out all their old bones without the person ending up dead. how is that humanly possible.
    3. what attracts us to other people, what makes us think’wow, they’re hot. i wonder if they like me..’ i swear, my friend Jordan is a Natural. i went out with him for a while, and even though we broke up a year ago i’m still drawn to him every time i see him. my boyfriend hates it, which is potentialy problematic as they’re really good friends. what causes me to stop and stare at him every time he smiles as he walks by?
    4. and the thing i really want to know is about specials. what do they look like, how are their sences inhanced? and their flash-tats, how do those work. do they only come in black? how do they spin with your pulse? are there specific designs you can choose from, or can you draw them up on your wall screen like uglies designing the face they want when they turn?

  589. so cool! more stuff to read!

    I would like to know more about how hoverboards work and the different models of them. It would also be bubbly to learn a little more about David, Maddy, and Az’s background. A map of the smoke would also be totally happy-making because picturing the whole place was a little hard and dizzy-making. I didn’t know if it was very big or small or anything like that. An explanation on the engineering of hoverstruts and an illustration of the lesions would be interesting. Background information on the surgery and Dr. Cable would explain some things that I have puzzled (along with an explanation of the specialization surgery). The book doesn’t dwell much on what happens immediately after the pretty surgery, and that would be an interesting aspect. An overhead map of Tally’s entire city would be nice because it would be useful to know the placement of special circumstances in reference to the city and the greenbelt. An explanation of how many of these inventions were developed (talking walls, eyescreens, skintennas, flash tatoos, ect.) would help people to better understand the history of Tally’s city. Like some other posts on this blog, it would be interesting to know where the city gets all of its recources from. To keep a city with a lot of people with life extension surgery fed and housed and pampered would require a lot of food and cloth and medspray and and places for entertainment so that people without the lesions didn’t just leave the city for fun. One last thing: How does Dr. C. keep some specials for rebelling? (other than the Cutters, because they still have lesions.) If just one special decided to get smart and attack special circumstances, they could do a lot of damage. Especially if they recruited some of their buddies.

    Thank you for writing this series, it’s totally bubbly! (you should continue it)

  591. cant you people just use your imaginations?

    i think the story is better enjoyed if you just picture in your mind how you see things, not how the author (no offense scott) intends you to see them.

    eg, when i read twilight, i had this really good image of what edward looked like, but then i saw the movie and my image of edward was ruined.

    PLEASE DONT MAKE A COMPANION TO THE SERIES!

    they were a great trilogy (of 4?), and i think they should be kept that way.

  592. i just bought the book (Bogus to Bubbly) today, and it is PERFECT! It’s exactly what i needed, and I’m saying this while on the 27th page; I haven’t even gotten halfway in!!

  593. I would like pictures of all the main characters in the “Uglies” trilogy. I would also like a map or picture of the rusty ruins, the smoke, their little world thing (new pretty town, uglyville, crumblyville, greebelt, etc.), and i would also like blurbs on the gadgets and all of the gadgets, as well as lots of info about things…. I’m a big fan!!! THX!!!

  595. YES! I would LOVE a book about the uglyverse! :). That would be totally cool (AKA Bubbly). PS Make Tally like David again already! I heart DAVID!

  596. me heart david 2!!!!!!! Can u make them a couple!!!!!! again!!!!!!! pleasssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    anyways is there gonna b a 5th book in the sereis?????

  597. Maybe you could write a book about Shay’s life before Tally came into it ive always kinda like been interested in that… Also Can Tally Like David again No offense but i don’t like Zane very much!!!!! Davids better!!!!!

  600. Definitely more on the slang (thanks shausto-la). and um more on the history from the time of the rusties to tally’s time. How the virus started and stuff.
    Flash tattoos would be awesome too, and a map.
    Also what happens after with the sly girls and extras and the specials and aya and tally and david etc.

  602. I would like to know mainly about the Skintenna and the eyescreen. I think it was pretty bogus not to add how they worked in Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider’s Guide to the World of Uglies. I wouldn’t mind a map and can’t wait until the movie comes out later in 2010. I hope it is like the book .Anyways, I really liked the book. I felt totally bubbly throughout Specials, making me come back for more. I thought that number four was okay, but needed improvement. Would you also consider telling how the Pretty/Special operation is done? I agree with Margy-no-chan. (Don’t ask about the no-chan part. It’s a Japanese title) It would be happy-making if you made a final book about what happened after the whole Extra thing. What happened between David and Tally at the end? The thought is soo dizzy-making. I guess I’ll never know unless you write another book.
    Thanks again,
    Anna-wa

  603. What were the white flowers?

    and a map! i need a map!

    and Peris is an awesome name!

    And whats with the interface rings?

  604. I want a story on Tally and David. Just them. I want to know what happened while they were alone and protecting the world, and I want to know what they did after the Thousand Faces party. PLEASE!?

    Sorry, I really love those two ๐Ÿ™‚

  605. how do you pronounce fausto .????? its driven me crazy since the first time i read it && i cant find it anyyyywhere .there are others but mostly Fausto .a proununciation guide would help lotsss .

  606. I want to know, whether Tally-wa and Zane-la had sex.
    Sorry I have a dirty Mind, but I want to know xD
    And, are David and Tally in a relationship now?
    Are they in love again?
    And what happens to Shay, Peris and the others?

    I didn’t liked it that the lead in “extras” isn’t Tally!
    I wanted to know what happens to Tally and David and Shay and the others!

  607. ok so yeah. MAPS. PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES AND WORDS.
    And
    @Torri-la
    I always said it like ( Faw-stow)
    Hope that helps ๐Ÿ™‚
    And yes. Vani-wa. A very sick mind.
    But probably.. It says she lived with him. I imagine they might have
    Slept in the same bed so… Haha AWKWARDDDD.
    Yeah! I hated that Tally wasn’t the mainperson in Extras. ):
    I always imagined Shay a little built.. And boxy… With black hair
    And Tally With straight frizzy hair in light brown.
    But after the operation.. Idk.
    So picures please? (:
    I need to knowabout the holein the wall.
    They are bomb.
    I want one. Bad. Haha.
    And interface rings.
    And everything. oh! Especially what happened
    In ”Rusty” times. The whole oil thing. Ya know. I need to know these things!!
    Ok. so yeah. Now IM rambling. So bye bye

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  610. Definitely like, a thing telling about whatever happened to the characters in the end, orrr, you could just write another book(; whichever works…haha. Also a guide about the flash tattoos, and…well… i guess an explanation of how the pretty surgery came to be. And i also agree with the other few comments ahead of me…sooo..yaa. BUT i REAAALLYYY wanna know what happens to tally, david, and shay…:P

  611. Ok so, my teacher recommended me to these AMAZING books! The books have really changed me (the way I look, think, and react). I <3 these books! and at the end of each book, I cried because I knew that it meant I was one step closer to the worst thing in the world! THE END OF THE SERIES! WHY? I cried for an hour, I wish you (Scott Westerfield) would write MORE books! And MOVIES! Please! ๐Ÿ™‚ I wish THAT YOU WOULD WRITE MORE!

  612. Also, I want TALLY back!!! I mean I love Aya-chan and all but seriously, What happened to Tally-wa? I miss Zane-la and was sad when they kissed that last time! I feel bad for Maddy for Az’s death. ๐Ÿ™ But I want to know more like, what’s up with Shay’s life, David’s, Fausto’s,& Peris’! At the beginning of the whole series I thought that when Tally-wa turned pretty she and Peris would fall in LOVE! I miss these books please write more, make movies please! I beg you!

  615. Yes, as nick said that he best performers can only have survived, by definition. Had they looked at the worst performers, then the results would have most probably included survivorship bias

  621. My story of how David got his scar was that.. ok I wrote a story as a continuation of Extras, and they find out what happened about his scar. So in the story they find something called smart mechanics that lets you change it into anything you want. But it can only be used once. If it’s used twice, it kills everyone within a kilometer. But, it gets weaker the more it’s used. So, David and his friends were ot (in the Smoke, of course) and they came across some smart mechanics, and changed it into a blender. It had already been used 4 times, so it exploded and David got cut by a screw. Not very fantabulous, but that’s my idea.

  622. I think im a mixture of Tally. Im so ugly and have low confidence but no guys like me, even when she has two guys after her…Help?

  623. I know im pathetic and sad. But this book i cried over ( im also REALLY emotional) Ppl all the time say im pretty. Tally is so lucky i wish she and Peris hooked up tho. They would be so cute! but David and Shay…and then Zane Died ๐Ÿ™ Noooooooo.

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  628. More on Dr Cable!!! Also, a diagram that shows the differences between uglies and pretties and specials! Also, I just really want to know, WHAT IS TALLY’S CITY CALLED???? I really love the Uglies series and I need to know these!!!

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