Name This Book

Posted on by scott

So, I need a title.

Most of you will remember the anthology I edited about Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Since then the same publisher (Teen Libris) has done a number of these collections, including this recent one about Stephenie Meyer’s Twlight series:

Lately, Teen Libris and I have been discussing a similar project for yours truly—a book about the Uglies series.

Of course, this is very different from Bubbly to Bogus, which is a behind-the-scenes guide to Tally’s world, with maps, diagrams, and such. This anthology will be a dozen or so other YA authors writing essays about the series, with subjects like:

“David vs. Zane”
“Shay: Evil Antagonist or Secret Hero?”
“Why do people get plastic surgery?”
“The dangers of technology and conformity”
“Slang and language use in the series”
“Radical Honesty versus being Pretty: are they the same thing?”
“The idea of wilderness in the series”

This is just a random list, but it gives you the idea.

So my question is, What do we call this book? Here are few lame suggestions of mine:

The Color of Cat Vomit
Adventures in Special Circumstances
Facing the Future
Skin Deep
Ugly Truths
Pretty/Ugly
Turning Pretty
About Face

Some of these are okay. But we’d really like to have your help this.

So comment away, and give us some good titles!

Note: This book won’t come out until 2009, but Bubbly to Bogus comes out October 23, 2008, and you can pre-order it now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Powells!

643 thoughts on “Name This Book”

  1. How about dropping “Adventures in” and going with just Special Circumstances?

    Also:
    New Pretty Town
    Mindrain

  8. ummm….
    hmm…
    Tricky, Bubbly, Icy…something with the keywords?
    Under the Knife? cuz, like, surgery.
    okay, i had an idea and lost it there.
    or, as i think you called it on this site before, The Makings of an Eco-Terrorist.
    yeah, i got nothing good here…but i’m thinking…

  10. Face It, which is lame, but thinking along the lines of “Face it, Tally-wa. You’re Special.”

    Or, you know, CAKE!, which no one would understand.

    hmm… Fireworks?
    They were sort of a theme in Pretties, and sort of in Uglies too.

    Hey Look We’ve Got Hoverboards?

    I always thought Surge Monkeys was a cool phrase, but it doesn’t really represent the whole series.

    Cat Vomit by itself is cool, but somehow i don’t think that’d be very well received/understood either.

    WHY DO GOOD CHARACTERS HAVE TO DIE? Just kidding there…that’d be some pretty horrible spoilers for a title.

    Explosions and Hoverboards: The Fall of A Dystopic Society.

  14. yeah, i’ve got nothing better to do than come up with lists of titles.

    Hey Future, Don’t End Up Like This.

    Get Bubbly

    Stay Icy

    The Smoke Lives (even though, really, it kind of doesn’t anymore, but whatever.)

    Young Blood

    Surge

    eh, i’m going to eat lunch now.

  15. I like Mindrain, The Color of Cat Vomit, and Under the Knife… thats not really lame Serafina Zane….. Don’t Tamper With Mother Nature is kinda cool too tho…. hmmmmmmmmmmmm I’m now stumped!

  16. I vote “Spagbol”.
    Kidding.

    Zane-y Times with Tally? Again, jk.

    Pretty Ugly (without the / ) is cute in itself- nice double meaning. But if it’s essays… not serious enough really.

    The Truth About Ugly (Uglies?)

    Surge
    With possible bylines being: Uglies to Pretties, Changing Face, or one of your ideas on the list. They’re not lame. (most of them, anyway.)

    I like Serafina Zane’s Explosions and Hoverboards: The Fall of A Dystopic Society. But I don’t know if hoverboards, cool though they are, fit in with what the book is supposed to be about. Or explosions, for that matter. But the format of it is cool, and the Dystopic. The fall can mean anything from Rusties’ fall to the mindrain, so that’s good too.

    Good luck deciding, then! Hope you don’t get more confused instead of less because of all the suggestions. 🙂

  17. This will sound so stupid, but how about Pretty Faced, Ugly Minded, the truth about surge.

  18. *Hasn’t posted here in forever but I am officially back*

    I love Serafina’s CAKE! That would be the perfect title and only the hardcore fans would even know what the heck it means. :]

    something about special circumstances…The New Special Curcumstances. or The Price of Perfection…

    I dont know, book titles dont come to me very well..no matter what its called though, I’ll still buy it 😀

  20. How about:

    “The Extra Special things about being Pretty Ugly”

    I don’t know. I thought it’d be cool to have all the titles in it. Good Luck. Maybe I’ll think of another one.

  21. I like the name Skin Deep or Ugly Truths. And I’ll definetly look at Bubbly to Bogus when it comes out, if I can figure out where my Barnes and Nobel is going to put it anyway…

  22. how about ‘open minded’?
    i dunno… i’m not very creative when it comes to book names.
    good luck!
    : )

  26. I like Surge or Mind Rain.

    Young Blood is good, but I’d assume teenage vampires. Skin Deep is also good, but I’d assume either skin flick or slasher novel. 🙂

    How about Too Pretty for Words?

    Alternately, Too Ugly for Words?

  27. I DON’T think that there should be something like, “Zane vs. David” because they DON’T fight over Tally or hate eachother or anything.
    Besides that, I like ‘Skin Deep’ and ‘Under the Knife’.
    Skin Deep is my fav.
    OORRRRR
    something along the lines of, ‘This is a Special Circumstance’ because HAHAHAHA it is! Well, actually it’s quite radical if I do say so myself Scott-la.

  28. Sofar from everyone my top 5 would be, in order…
    1. Mindrain
    2. CAKE!
    3. Young Blood
    4. Pretty Faced, Ugly Minded: The Truth About Surge (or something along the lines of it- it pretty much covers most topics you’d talk about in the book.)
    5. Price of Perfection

    Hmm… actually they aren’t in correct order except Mindrain. But I expecially like #4 and #5.

  29. so in order I think it would be
    1. Mindrain
    2. Price of Perfection
    3. Pretty Faced, ugly Minded: The Truth About Surge (or something along the lines of it)
    4. CAKE!
    5. Young Blood

    But I think 4 and 5 are tied. Neither are very related to the book, but they’re cool and CAKE is something that is like an inside thing, only people who read the books would understand it… Young Blood is cool too.

  30. I disagree Lisa-wa, I think there should be. It’s a matter of opinion, like Edward vs. Jacob for Twilight series. It’s impossible for there to be a right answer, and I’d like to see the opinions and reasons of other authors.

  31. You know, scott-la should use authors like Stephanie Meyer, ones we all know very well. I don’t care about the opinions of authors i’ve never heard of… and face it- pretty much everyone who’s read scott-la’s books has heard of, if not read, the Twilight series.

  34. i really like skin deep maybe something like “more that meets the eye” idk im bad at stuff like this

  35. I like “About Face” and “Skin Deep”, and it would be brilliant to have one of those no matter what the title was.

    Actually… I’m partial to “The Color of Cat Vomit” and I have a friend who would, without a doubt, love that. (She’s the future Cat Lady).

    I really loved the Twilight series… until I really looked at it. Then I realized that Edward was a Gary-Stu and Bella was the most annoying, bland person I have ever read about. All the characters were very flat. And (meant in *NO* offense to Stephenie Meyer) it seemed like it tried too hard to make Bella ‘different’, to the point where she was a wannabe rebel who acted like a [bad word] to all her friends after she got a boyfriend.

    But this is not the “Fans Gone Wild: Twilight Bashing Board”, so I’ll stop.

    I’m excited for all your upcoming books, Mr. Westerfeld! =]
    <3

  36. Hi, Scott!! This is my first time on your blog. I just finished the Uglies series and am enthralled! It inspired me to write, and I’m working right now on a book! It’s funny because I read so much, but this is the first series that got me to write!!

    Anyways, my idea is

    Pretty, Ugly, and Everything In Between.

  39. i LOVE The Price of Perfection, Under the Knife, and CAKE! hehe. so much fawesomeness.

    i havent been on in AGES! but now im hear to give my ideas! so…

    Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icy, and Kick It! (all one title)

    Dizzy-making Truths (instead of ugly truths, even tho thats a fawesome title an all)

    and im being really missing rite now. so i cant come up with any more. but i’ll keep thinking.

    i really like The Color of Cat Vomit tho. even tho it may not have COMPLETLEY a whole lot to do with the series, it totally does. i mean, its like the color of cat vomit is just code for a look into the whole world. when you really look at it. ya no what i mean?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 💡

  42. I love Lizzy-wa’s ‘The Dizzy-making Truth’ and I like Aubry’s ‘Pretty, Ugly, and Everything In Between’. Serafina Zane’s ‘Cake’ is brilliant aswell.
    I have a feeling Scotts gonna have a hard time picking one; they’re all really good!

    Heres mine:
    ‘The Truth in Perfection’
    ‘Hoverboards And Crash Bracelets’
    ‘Crims and Cutters’
    ‘Curing Lesions’
    ‘The Princess, The Dragon, and An Ugly Prince’
    ‘Lazy Vanity’
    ‘New System’
    ‘New Smoke, New Systems, and New Special Circumstances’
    ‘Bubbleheads’

  43. my favorite is The Ugly Truth or like you have it Ugly Truths.. since there is more than one… but i think it’s more powerful if it’s The Ugly Truth.

    umm… yeah. i can’t think of any.. i’m not a very creative word person.. sorrys!

  46. I like “The Color of Cat Vomit the most, but perhaps make it a bit more vague. Like, “What Color Was The Sky?” or something along that line. Something that only true Uglies fans would see and be like, “Hey! I get that!” Lol.
    And while I like that title, and a few of the others up there, I also like my own idea-

    “We Don’t Want To Hurt You”

    That or something having to do with nanos. I love my nanos:D

    Also, for a essay topic, I’d really like, “Can the sky really be the color of vomit?” to be one. Me and my friends actually got into a debate over that one time, because they said that cat vomit was multiple colors and I said that that was the point. They also said that the color ranges depending on what the cat has ingested, which is true. I suppose it just gives everyone a different image in their minds, and that’s why I’d love to see a few authors write their own seperate opinions and debates about it:)

  47. The Color of Cat Vomit
    ^-^
    I love it!

    Mindrain is pretty cool as well.

    I like Lizzy-wa’s “Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icy, and Kick It!”

    It seems like most of your fans (especially on this blog) are in love with hoverboards! So I feel something to do with hoverboards would be cool…. only I can’t think of anything… hehe…

    BUT there should be an anthology about Midnighters!!! (cause thats my fav…!)

  48. Oh! I just thought of something for the nanos!

    “Nanos Are Your Friends”

    It’s a work in progress. I almost though, “Do Not Run Away, Nanos Are Your Friends”, but I thought that was a bit too Mars Attacks:P
    Also, maybe something having to do with Rusties. Like, a play on the fact that Rusties are the ones writing the essays for a book about the Uglies/Pretties/Specials/Extras.

  49. there shood DEFINATELY be an anthology about Midnighters!!!

    there shood be sompthing about blowing up stuff! like…

    Can You Say CRASH?

    ya no… cuz theres like, millions of crashes. theres the Rusty crash. and the Smoke crash. and the Pretty crash. and all those crashes on hoverboards…. it totally makes sense! …kind of…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😐

  50. i really like Mind Rain. it’s got a cool sound to it and it’s very future-ish.

    my suggestion: Beneath the Surface

    I fail at this game…

  51. Ugly Ideas
    Ugly Thoughts
    Ugly Futures

    Reminds me of X singing “must not think bad thoughts” or Zappa asking “What’s the ugliest part of your body?”. He answers, “I think it’s your mind.”

    Hmm, how about

    No Crash Bracelets

    There is always…

    Hoverboard Derring-Do

    The last has excellent Google fu.

  52. Scott-la,

    You called your book Bubbly to Bogus in the entry. It’s the other way around. 😉

    Skin Deep is already a YA title (by E.M. Crane)

    I suck at titles, but I suggest:

    Uglies Gone Wild
    Pretty Ugly / Pretty Uglies
    Pretty-Making
    The Hole in the Wall
    How to Survive on Spag Bol
    Extra! Extra!
    When Hoverboards Attack

    😛 Emily

  54. P.S. If I begged and pleaded enough, would they let me write an essay? 🙂 Ever since the un-contacted Amazon tribe was discovered, I can’t get Andrew Simpson Smith out of my mind…

  55. haha this is gonna be one of those times when I re read the series to catch up on good titles
    (which is fool because I hardly ever re read books but I can always read these books seriously)

  56. I like cakes… because the last word of uglies was pretty, the last word of pretties was special, and the last word of specials was ugly. i feel the cycle needs to continue with Extras and the last word being cake…

  57. unless someone already has…..
    someone should compile a list and create a poll. that way everyone can vote. 😀

  59. 500 Years of Evolution (or something with that in it…cuz, you know how Tally goes ‘You just took on another 500 years of evolution’?)

    Pretty Evolution

    I like the Mindrain one, too.

    And I just forgot my favorite one! Great, just great. Awesome.

    I have a feeling I’ll be back.

  61. The Smoke Lives! That was what I forgot, and also…

    Two birds with One Stone (wait, no, was it the other way around…? Y’know, the name of one of the chapters in Extras…) I’ll go check it out, hold the phone.

  65. What it means to be ugly ( in a pretties world)
    the life and world of Tally youngblood
    what it means to be tally youngblood
    Ugly
    mindrain
    next generation : how it began ( if you don’t get this one its like explaining how extras came to be)
    Tally youngblood : The truths, the lies, the answers
    Are you ugly?
    Pretties, make it happen
    Zane or David, Tally or shea, and all the other questions we need answers
    Uglies: how to live and love it

    ‘k thats all i got all have you know its 10 at night so give me a break

  66. yeah, Cake would be the perfect title, cuz only people who’ve read the four books would understand, and therefore…wait a minute…then the sales wouldn’t be as good…well, i like it anyways…
    CAKE!!!!!!

  67. I was going to come up with something, but it looks like a lot of the titles people already came up with are amazing. I’m a fan of:
    Mindrain
    Pretty Ugly
    The Ugly Truth
    Pretty, Ugly, And Everything in Between
    Skin Deep
    Dizzy-making Truths
    Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icey
    Pretty Faced, Ugly Minded

    All of them are totally amazing. I love the ones that only people who actually read and know the series would get, like “SpagBol” or “Cat Vomit,” but it’s my personal opinion that the title should represent the series. (Although it’s pretty hard to sum up a trilogy that is nine kinds of fawesome in one phrase.) Somehow, I managed to come up with a few (bad ones) of my own:
    Pretty Icy
    The Ugly Side of Pretty
    Behind the Eyes (Because the series has a lot of focus on eyes)
    The Eyes Have It
    Skin is Only So Deep
    Skin Shallow, Mind Deep (Okay, now that seams REALLY lame….)
    The Beginning of an End

    Well whatever it’s titled, I’m looking forward to it, as well as Bogus to Bubbly (which, by the way, was accidentally called “Bubbly to Bogus” in this post)!

  68. I was going to come up with something, but it looks like a lot of the titles people already came up with are amazing. I’m a fan of:
    Mindrain
    Pretty Ugly
    The Ugly Truth
    Pretty, Ugly, And Everything in Between
    Skin Deep
    Dizzy-making Truths
    Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icey
    Pretty Faced, Ugly Minded

    All of them are totally amazing. I love the ones that only people who actually read and know the series would get, like “SpagBol” or “Cat Vomit,” but it’s my personal opinion that the title should represent the series. (Although it’s pretty hard to sum up a trilogy that is nine kinds of fawesome in one phrase.) Somehow, I managed to come up with a few (bad ones) of my own:
    Pretty Icy
    The Ugly Side of Pretty
    Behind the Eyes (Because the series has a lot of focus on eyes)
    The Eyes Have It
    Skin is Only So Deep
    Skin Shallow, Mind Deep (Okay, now that seams REALLY lame….)
    The Beginning of an End

    Well whatever it’s titled, I’m looking forward to it, as well as Bogus to Bubbly (which, by the way, was accidentally called “Bubbly to Bogus” in this post)!

  70. OHMIGOD! I was just looking at some of the earlier ideas and I saw that in one of Lizzy-wa’s post she meantioned an idea that a Midnighters anthology be made, and that gave me the idea that a Midnighters GUIDE should be made, just like Bogus to Bubbly! And the weird thing is, it took me a while to come up with a semi-decent title for this anthology, but a title for a Midnighter’s guide kind of just hit me:
    Midnighter’s Lore: A Guide to the Secret Hour
    I don’t know if it’s any good, but I kind of like it!

  71. I think Mindrain’s an awesome title, and Skin Deep and Ugly Truths isn’t so bad either.

    And just for David, Five Million Years of Evolution. Though that sounds lame now. =P

  73. squee-making. very. but so hard to name!

    I do like mindrain

    The Rusty’s guide to the Uglies Universe?

    or just for the sake of tradition and shameless copying,

    be tricky,
    get bubbly,
    stay icy,
    and kick it.

  74. Face the Pretty Ugly Truth?
    i guess you could put a slash in there too, to turn it into
    Face the Pretty/Ugly Truth

  75. OH. sudden epiphany.
    how about
    The Bridge That Can’t Talk?
    the bridge that couldnt talk….
    the only brigde left….
    silent bridge…..
    maybe the bridge could narrate the story? i dunno that seems kinda awesome to me, having the one old piece of history that CANT talk talking about the books.

    ….helpful, maybe?

  76. ‘corse you cant have the bridge narrate the WHOLE thing, cause the point of the book is to have the opinions of other authors and such…..
    yeah. okay im ranting.
    shutting up now.

  77. hehe. non-talking bridges. hehe. much fawesomeness…

    but i have some things that were bugging me:

    PrettyMindedUgly, Serafina-la came up with the whole fawesome Midnighters anthology thing. hehe. probably doesnt matter, but that was bugging me.

    and Lotti-la, i SWEAR i stole that frase from YOU. even tho i cant find where i saw it anywhere online…mysterious, i no…

    hehe. oh. and i absolutly LOVE the Hoverboard Derring-do! hehe. memories…

    and i am SO glad im not the only one that saw that Bubbly to Bogus thing. i read the paragraph over and over and kept thinking “i SWEAR the title was Bogus to Bubbly! shood i comment about it… but i dont want to seem all Sherlock Holmes…hhhhhhmmmmm… but then again. Scott-la’s the famous author. he must have just recently changed the title of the book and forgot to mention it or sompthing…” hehe. i feel really silly now.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  79. I think I may have posted it on my blog once. But I think I got it off someone on the Extras spoiler page… I don’t know who. Or maybe I’m thinking of something Sera Zanes said about the covers. I’m really confused now! 😕

  81. How about …… The uglies seiries under the knife. When does bogus to bubbly get realeased in Australia?

  83. i didn’t read the first sixty comments, so i dunno if someone’s already suggested this:
    instead of ‘the pretty ugly truth’, i think it should be the ‘ugly pretty truth’….
    i like ‘the silent bridge’, it sound ominous but interesting at the same time….
    i can’t think of any good ones, cuz it’s 7:30 in the morning, i can’t think well….i had all these mosquito bite-ish things all over me, so i was like half awake and half asleep all night. talk about annoying.

  87. just playin around but what about Extra Pretty Icy Uglies it has to do with all of the trilogy books

  91. My top three:

    1. Special Circumstances (perfect!!!)
    2. Mindrain (This one seems weird, I didn’t think it fit with all three stories)
    3. Spagbol (such a soft spot for that one)

    Hope you have an aha! moment and the right title is found!!! 🙂

  92. wow you can really tell that he’s just dying to write more about the Uglies world. 5th book!

  93. i rlly like the color of cat vomit one
    or mayb u could do something like
    Rusty…
    Rusty Vs.Ugglie
    or
    just The Rusties
    or yahhhhh
    something to do w/ Rusties
    cause thats us
    and the book is our thoughts.
    Good Luck!!

  94. rah i’m going to go mad reading all these possible book titles. I like alot of them, but one thing i don’t understand- what would About Face be for? I don’t understna dthat one, so anyone care to explain?

    on another note…
    I GOT A PUPPY! I GOT A PUPPY! She’s a rare colored Shih Tzu. My family loves Shih Tzus, they’re just the cutest little dogs. She’s not your traditional white with black or brown spots. She’s got caramel/golden fur and has black on the tips of her tail and ears, on the tips of some of her back fur, and on her face. She looks kinda like a pug, but… shih tzu-like. lol. I’ve got a picture of her i’m putting on my blog, it’s really cute. To get to my blog, click my name!

  95. oh, the ‘the silent bridge’ wasn’t mine….i’d read it in an earlier comment….wish it was mine, tho! 😆

  96. and congrats, emily-wa on the dog!!!!
    i have a cat, and i call him cleopatro (but his real name is rascal)

  98. I really like Mind Rain.

    But I also think it would be pretty cool to have something to do with the series being under surgery because it’s being analyzed in the essays…
    The Truth Under Surgery/The Truth Under the Knife
    Surgically Extracting the Truth Behind Beauty (But maybe with another word instead of beauty, since all the essays won’t be about beauty) (I don’t know about that one, it seems kind of wordy) (Sorry I like parentheses =P)

    OR you could do a pun on Tally’s name, maybe? Like, “Ugly Truth vs. Pretty Lies: Tallying the Score” (but better-sounding)

    And last idea: “Diagnosing the Cancer of the Earth” (I’m thinking of Dr. Cable saying humanity is a cancer of the earth/world…sorry I don’t remember the exact wording!)

  100. i also got umm…..
    nothing
    i love the smoke though
    i practically screamed out loud when the uglies wrote the new smoke in the sky in uglies.
    ummm something with that???????????????????????????

    *****************does anyone no the exact date bogus to bubbly comes out???

  103. Half an hour of staring at my computer screen and the use of a thesaurus, and “The Constringencies of Perfect” and “Inadequately Beautiful” were the only things I could come up with. Oh, well.

  104. I’m sorry If anything i repeat has alreayd been said or thought of I did’t read all of the comments.

    Pretty special for an uglie ok I don’t think that really works, but it’s kind of interesting I guess

    The Ultimate face off Uglie vs. Pretty

    Beaty vs. Brain

    Blegh I’m bad at this.

  106. hmmm. I like “Skin Deep”, “Ugly Truths”, and “Facing the Future”. Serafina Zane’s “Under the Knife” that’s cool. Oooh, and,uh, Shausto-la’s “The Price of Perfection”. Ummmmmmm, I can’t think of any myself but I’ll get back to you if I think of one.

  107. Oooh, uh, I just thought of one (or two). What about:

    Pretty Special: A look into the Ugly future. (or something along those lines)

    Ugly In a World of Pretties.

  109. eh idk. I just realized, only ONE essay topic scott-la gave had to do with the surgery. Shouldn’t the title be a little more… idk, broad-topiced?

  110. To Emily-wa:

    But…Zane-la kinda died. (Very sad btw I loved him.) And Tally doesn’t nessecarily love David anymore like she use too.
    See in the Twilight series, Bella has to chose between Jacob and Edward but in the Uglies series Zane dies and Tally can’t do anything about that…

  111. I was thinking “MindField”.

    Because when your pretty, your brain is like a mine field, being triggered to do c and think certain things when certain situations arise.

    Maybe?

  113. Hey Future, Don’t End Up Like This. is my fav. I should write short story called that! XD

  114. First let me just say I love this whole idea of analyzing the book. On a somewhat related note, that is the reason why I listen to Mugglecast since they analyze the book series talking about these little things. So I really hope this is real and not just some idea still being thought about. Anyways my thoughts:

    The Color of Cat Vomit – No but I see where you are going with this title
    Adventures in Special Circumstances – Kinda lame with Adventures (no offense)
    Facing the Future – Okay title but others are better in my opinion
    Skin Deep – I like this a bit more than Ugly Truths
    Ugly Truths – This really stood out in my mind as one title
    Pretty/Ugly – Okay, kinda cliche don’t you think?
    Turning Pretty – Not really
    About Face – Maybe…

  115. what about just plain “Special Circumstances”?

    or my favourite motto, “I Don’t Want to Hurt You, but I Will if I Have To”?

    lame as a book name, I know. But I like seeing it in capitals like that 😉

  117. ***UGLIES SPOILER***
    To Lisa-wa:
    “But…Zane-la kinda died.” I still think Zane’la was better. David wasn’t as romantical as Zane. Zane-la’s dying was an accident, so it shouldn’t have anything to do with whether Zane-la or David is better. Besides, I like that Zane refused to get help for his headaches to help him and Tally-wa get out of New Pretty Town. It’s sweet, and he knew he was risking his health for her. David just liked her, and while he told her the truth about Pretties it just wasn’t as…idk, bubbly?… a relationship.

    Oh, and will SOMEONE explain About Face to me?!

  118. lotti-wa, i like that too.
    See, I want something a little more broad than something about the surgery, because that’s not what all the essays are about.
    The Good, The Bad, and The Uglies is a title that is broad enough to include things from David vs. Zane to the Dangers of Technology.

  121. I love Mindrain, Beneath the Surface, About Face, The Colour of Cat Vomit and Pretty Ugly.
    can someone please explain to me what CAKE means?

  125. hehe..Scott-la, I think you’ve got pretty good support with Cake. It’s pretty much perfect, disregarding the fact that it is probably the title that has the least to do with the essay topics.

    …Cake is fawesome anyway.

  126. I really like the name “The Uncovered Ugly” for a book title. It kind of sounds… nice. I really am looking forward to this book. I’ve always had my concerns with Shay…

  128. wow
    im a big fan of the uglies series, and to find out
    that there will be more or something to continue makes me really happy
    and im sure im not the only one..
    ive been looking forward to somethig like the two books that are coming out.
    i really love all this books
    and for the title
    of the book something related to the ones on the past
    wouldnt be bad but skin deep and pretty/uglies sound really interesting,
    hope they have they have something
    with the model we all know..
    because it was weird but while reading the books
    i would look back to the cover many timess
    and my imagination would take over
    so it would be nicee
    to know more about Tallys world.

  129. OMC. To have my favorite author (you) talk about my favorite book (Twilight). I think I’m gonna faint.

  131. “MindRain” is probably the coolest possible title.

    “Cat Vomit” is pretty awesome too.

    “Special Circumstances”

    “Rusty Ruins”

  132. I really like:

    About Face

    Adventures in special cercomstances

    facing the future

    and

    thought turning pretty is good I think it would be better as turning uglie. 😀

  133. I like that, “The Rusty’s Guide to the Uglies Universe”, lotti-wa! AND WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN “ABOUT FACE” TO ME? I DON’T GET TI!
    good grief, that’s the third time i’ve asked…

  134. the ugly truth about being pretty
    or
    the pretty truth about being ugly
    or
    rustic pretty
    or
    Spagbol: sick of the truth (or something with spagbol)
    or
    Icy ugly love (dont ask where this came from Im out of it)

    also I there should be a thing about how our world is slowly changing into the ugly world
    oh got another one
    our pretty ugly war

    Im gonna stop now

  137. I like the long ones, too. Like TZ’s and lotti-wa’s.
    anyone here play gaiaonline.com? I just joined, thought it would be interesting, possibly even fun :mrgreen:

  139. ok something kinda akward
    in scott-sama’s shop I was looking to buy some thing and I looked at the brail one
    now I like itbut wouldnt buy it because
    it would be odd if someone tried to read it I think it would get annoying after a while you know
    its a cool shirt though

  141. hhhhmmmm… i wood keep on trying, but it already seems as tho Mind Rain is the most popular. and while it is a totally fawesome title, i just wish i wooda thot of it. Dave, yur a genius!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😐

  142. Idk. Im not good at making tittles. But my fav. out of the list is Skin Deep although Color of Cat Vomit make me laugh. Haha.

  143. You know whats really bothering me? Look at the Extras cover…i want to remove her freckle mole thing! Its bothering me. Its really dark. And out of place.

  145. LOVE the idea, Loved Cake! and mindrain and skin deep, I was thinking…
    1. Utterly Special
    2.Extra Icy
    3.Spagbol or bust
    4.cutters 4 ever
    5.The Uglie the Pretty and the just plain Special

  148. Lisa-wa – Its good to know their are people who feel the same way. i mean, they have special tools on the computer, they could have air brushed it! But no, they would rather me dye of trying to get it off.

    Ok, i have a joke you should tell your friends. And this is no offense to you if your…blonde but you no, the jokes funny.

    Ok tell your friend: “How do you keep a blond in suspense?”

    Then she’ll say something or be like “idk” but dont say anything back. And let her keep being like “what” and then she becomes the blond in suspense. Its really funny when they keep rambling on about how you never told them and about how your not answering. But some get it right away. And they don’t have to be blond. Also go on youtube and type in Blond Star, its really funny.

  149. That is going to be so fool when it comes out I bet. Okay my top five are:

    Mindrain
    The Price of Perfection
    The Color of Cat Vomit
    Dizzy-making Truths
    What it Means to be Ugly (In a Pretties World)

    These are basically in order.

  151. hhhhmmm… i really like Nikki-la’s Kicking Reality. very foolio…

    hehe. but Bran-la, if they took it off, she’d be too perfect. like, her only non perfect thing wood be her nose. and thats not enough to be ugly. so they had to keep it so she cood be more…normal. ya no? hehe. but i do totally get what your saying. it needs to be like, higher and more to the side and more freckleish and less blackish. hehe. yepyepyep.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😉

  154. I really like Facing the Future. Maybe you can keep the effect by going with, “Facing Biology: 300 Years into the Future”.

  155. Ahm…

    I’m trying to think of something that doesn’t point to anything specific, like JUST about Tally and Zane or JUST about surges…which is why I like, “The Color of Cat Vomit”…

    I would probably need to re-read the series to get something REAL creative…

    But what about…

    Rusties

    See, it could be interpreted as being only about, say, the Rusty history and other’s opinions on it…or it could be interpreted as the authors, who are, in fact, Rusties, and their opinions and words of the book…along with all the hot topics of the series.

    I’m going to type random titles and see if I get anything out of it, now.

    Extra Opinions

    Skinny and Nose and More

    The Secrets of the Pleasure Gardens

    Pretty, Special, Ugly, Cake

    Cake

    16

    Sixteen

    Surged

    Okay, I’m really digging that last one.

    Youngblood

    Radically Ugly (that was mixing the whole, radically honest with being Pretty – or, rather, Ugly)

    Essays of the Rusties

    I seem to have gone full circle…The only one I really like is Surged. Seems I can only come up with titles if I babble as I have…oh my.

  157. Two Tiny, White Pills

    Nanobytes

    317 (number of the “room” Zane and Tally were in to take the pills)

    SpagBol

    nnnn!!!!!

  158. The Smoke

    Being Bubbly

    Being Icy

    (anyone else ever notice the three stages of water? intentional?)

  160. I really like Skin Deep it seems to say it all. So much of the serious dealt with physical and emotional issues. I was immediately drawn to that title.

  162. i think about face and skin deep are my favorites. it seems that they pertain to everything rather than just certain parts.
    what about something like rewired?
    cuz it seemed in all the novels tally was trying to “rewire” her brain.?

  164. Hmm, I like Rewired. Mindrain is still my fav. out of all the suggestions though I think. And on a more cheerful note, I just stepped on a freaking thumbtac and had to yank it out of my foot. Innit that just a lovely cup a tea?

  165. I like About Face and Ugly Truths if it’s a book of essays about the book. I have to say that the title Skin Deep really grates on me if it’s supposed to be an indepth look at the series. I understand why it could be appealing, but at the same time, it a) sounds like a teenage self-help book to me b) OR the title of a feel-good tv special and b) skin deep is traditionally shallow and we want deep analysis of the series. I could see a section of the book that examines the more straight-forward or basic ideas of the series being called Skin Deep (ex: Skin Deep, Dizzy- Making Truths and Rustie Revelations as parts of the book)
    Actually, I kind of like Rustie Revelations as a title…

  167. I think that “The Color Of Cat Vomit” is good. It’s funny, and face it… If I see a book on the shelves called “The Color Of Cat Vomit”, I’m going to open it up and see what it’s about. But maybe that’s just me. 😀

  168. hmmm…….
    i like Ugly Truths and Turning Pretty and About face
    idk about other titles…..
    i think it should have “Rusties” somewhere in it because that IS who is writing it.
    Rusties Look on Pretties
    pre-apocolypse
    idk, all mine are bad….

  169. Mindrain and rewired are my favorities. Maybe even something like “The Cost” (like, the price they pay to be pretty) or “Price of Freedom”? Haha, I don’t know…

  171. Bran-la – Yeah, I know. They could’ve airbrushed over it.

    And lol I didn’t get that joke until the 3rd time I read it. lol

  173. THE ICY-MAKING GUIDE TO UGLIES

    I love that one! If I saw that I would be like OMG!

    or

    UNCOVERING THE ICY TRUTH ABOUT UGLIES

    or

    UGLIES: THE TELL-ALL GUIDE

    or

    BUBBLY: THE TRUTH ABOUT PRETTIES

  175. HOVERBOARDS AND LESIONS: UGLIES

    CROSSING THE RIVER: UGLIES

    A RUSTY’S OUTLOOK ON THE FUTURE

    FLASH TATOOS AND LESIONS

    INTERFACE RINGS

    THE CITY

    UGLIES: THE GUIDE

    LESIONS: THE PRICE OF PRETTY

  176. is there going to be an Uglies movie?

    Doesnt say on the rights page but it does on IMdB

  177. OH I GOT ONE!!!!
    The Side You Despise
    see, it has to do with picking a side on the essay questions AND it’s part of the clue to get to the Smoke!!!!!
    AH I’M SO PROUD OF MYSELF RIGHT NOW!

  182. Um. . . . How about Pretty.Ugly. ? Well, i guess that’s kinda copying Panic at the Disco!, but its all i got.

    And what the heck does ‘the color of cat vomit’ have to do with the Uglies?? JK!

  188. Lotti-wa, I stepped on a thumbtac cuz like 3 days ago I dropped 1 putting up a poster and I couldn’t find it. So I was like watching where I stepped for the past 2 days cuz I didn’t want to step on it. But since I still couldn’t find it I figured somebody must have picked it up, so the first freaking step I take not looking it ends up jammed in my foot. I have all the luck in the world.
    Emily-wa I love that!
    The Side You Despise! That’s brilliant!

  189. OW! OW! OW! OW! OOOOOWWWW!!!! Tally/Zane-la, your causing me pain just listening to you! hehe. ouch. i hope your ok!

    ok. i have some new favs.

    The Side You Despise. ohmygosh! i LOVE that one! its so perfect!

    Rewired. really like that one. i dont no, it just has some kinda ring to it. ya no?

    317. do i really even have to comment on it?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

  190. “Shay: Evil Antagonist or Secret Hero?”

    Secret Hero. 😉

    I like Ugly Truths and About Face as titles.

  192. The Side you Despise

    I like that one.

    *thinks* ‘Finding the Smoke’ could be an okay title.

  193. Pretty Face, Ugly Mind
    The Side You Despise
    Skin Deep
    The Ugly Truth
    When Pretty Gets Ugly
    Under The Knife
    Face Value

    I like these…

  195. My two ideas are:

    “Face Front” and “Cracked Shell” or “Cracking The Shell”.

    Can’t wait until more of your books come out.

  196. Cutter Wanna-Be? *gasp!* How’d you find out? I admit it, I am a cutter wanna-be that goes around stabbing her feet. I’m so ashamed! *cries* Why do you all hate me?! *goes to apply more dark eyeliner*(Rofl, please note mega sarcasm peeps.)

  199. I think that Skin Deep.. one of Scott’s original ideas was really good. I doesn’t have a word in it that was used for a previous title.. and the title is compelling.. like.. Skin Deep on what? That’s the question that will get readers intrigued.

  200. haha I couldn’t get over how I ACTUALLY came up with a perfect title all by myself… thanks for the support guys! I think it’s cool. Now will SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN “ABOUT FACE” TO ME?!

  201. i like
    the colour of cat vomit
    skin deep
    ugly truths

    although theres a beauty place in the city of melbourne thats called “skin deep” sooo i guess their message is “we can cut your face up AND give you a facial 😀 ”

    i dunno….either way i think it conveys the same sort of message. anything else is sort of eluding to just the one book in the trilogy.

    must get these anthologys they sound so fawesome!

  202. Emily-wa, I don’t really know what’s up with About Face…*shrugs* Idk…
    Oh ya and *says in creepy monotone depressed emo cutter wanna-be voice* If the world is so perfect then why do roses have thorns? *frowns* (Oh gosh, I’m having way too much fun with this. You can’t know how hard I’m laughing right now. Lame much, huh? LoL)

  208. hehe. Tally/Zane-la, you may be the only person i no that cood have more fun pretending to be a cutter wanna-be than a three year old cood have pretending to be a princess. hehe.

    as for Bran-la. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! YOUR BACK! YOUR BACK! YOUR BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKK!!!! i dont no WHAT i wood have done have you not returned. *wipes non-existent sweat from non-existent forehead*. you have NO idea how much i missed you!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙄

  214. Also, I agree that the phrase “The Smoke Lives” is amazing…however…I’m trying to figure out if that describes what the book is supposed to be, well…

  216. um…im on? but its a little late…your probably gone by now. 🙁

    oh come on Andrea-la, it cant be THAT stupid.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  218. Lizzy-wa I’m gonna take that as a compliment so thankyou! What can I say? I’m easily amused. Andrea-la, first step is to admit? We should all like have a metaphorical therapy session and like imagine eachother in a circle going around admitting stuff! Like “Hi, my name’s TZ and my problem is…yada yada blah blah blah…” HeHe, I think it’d be interesting. And Hola Bran-la! *throws virtual confetti*

  219. I really liked The Side You Despise…has a certain ring to it, and The Color of Cat Vomit is also funny but….i think it worked better as an opening to Uglies than a title hehee and i like the idea of using mind rain so….hmmm…

    what about “Mindrain: When Pretty Gets Ugly”

    Dont know if its been suggested yet or not! but there’s my suggestion. Had alot of fun reading this!

    Good luck, Scott. I hope whatever title you end up with it’s totally awesome-making

  237. hmmmm…GUESS WHAT??? No one is home right now but me so guess what that means? That means that I can sing all I want and no one can hear me!

  244. i really like my song…it actually started as a poem, believe it or not…then it desided that it wanted to be a song…i’ll post lyrics later…

  253. not much disussing what we have done this morning
    tryng to cordanate with friends to go see Wall-e which makes me excited
    having my puppy inmy face and knocking my ipod off the table grr

  268. Me too
    Im in walking distnce of our mall so *shrugs* Im close to alot of things
    but the funny thing is there will be a Starbucks in the grocerie store, then pne RIGHT outside of it in the parking lot
    that happens to at least 4 stores i know of
    I lov coffee shops

  269. Dude, my city isn’t very big only like around 70,000 people I think and we’ve got like 6 starbucks not to mention the random coffee shops that compete with it.

  273. my towns really small too only about 40 ,000 people
    but my towns growing
    and we prolly have about 20 starbucks within an half an hour of my house not to mention all the little coffee shop, we have a high demand for coffee

  277. Ha, yeah. Apparently “everybody” loves coffee. We have to take my dog to the vet again today. It’s a checkup to see if the medicine she’s been taking is working. I hate that vet though, something about him bugs me…

  282. ANDREA KK I’M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    …i don’t like coffee. I think today’s youth is too obbsessed with coffee for their own good. I’m not much of a tea drinker, either, I kinda like the Lipton’s green tea with citrus but i think it gives me headaches….

  290. oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap…oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap

  299. oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap

  301. IT”S NOT FUNNY. Look, right now I can’t even BREATH because I think that Emily-wa must HATE me now. Once second I’ll be not able to breath, the next I’ll be hyperventalating…IT’S NOT FUNNY.

  313. I dont even have y ears peirced, and I refuse to do so
    the only needles I dont mind are tattoo needles their small and I cant see them when their in use
    I watched my sister get hers done

  315. *shakes head* I cant Not only am I afraid of needles but also a table fell on my ear and It made me prone to ear infectionsI cant watch my sister get her ear peirced or her navel or anything

  332. That nice…i’m depressed because i don’t think that Emily-wa is speaking to me anymore. i think she is just really really really mad at me.

  352. I lovve “Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icy, and Kick It!” and “the dizzy making truth” they r both totally creative & fit really well with the story.
    However cool having an inside title would be, that might ruin sales as sum readers are not tru fans as we r and would not get the tittle.
    I also like “freedom has a way of destroying things”

    Good luck picking a tittle Scott-la! After all u hav a bunch of great 1s 2 choose from!

    <3

  359. BTW like that title
    Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icy, and Kick It

    because it goes through all the books

    be tricky=Uglies
    Get bubbly=Pretties
    stay icy= Specials
    And kick it=Extras

    very good order and such

  369. Emily-wa just emailed me. I had asked her to go to my blog. Because I had just posted a public apology to her about the whole blog deleting thing, and she said that she had already been to my blog. I don’t think she went to see the apology.

  377. lol. i don’t know how long i can be happy though. i mean, i want to be more than a happy person. i’ve never particularily cared about happiness.

  381. but i seriously don’t care about happiness. most people think i’m insane because of it, but really i don’t care about happiness. i try to accept everything, but i have the tendancy to overreact.

  385. I would like to be a famous author or something. I would want to be famous for writing a cool song. Or poetry or something. I want to be a famous person who can actually get their messege out. I want to be able to say what I think and get people to listen to me. I want to be quoted years from now because what I said ment something. I don’t want to be famous now, I want to be famous later for something I said.

  395. I wrote a story for core. Its amazing! It’s called Belladonna.

    Belladonna
    I felt something missing. This isn’t strange because I’ve noticed it for weeks. I thought maybe it was my out-of-style room. But I’ve had the finest fashion designers in all of France to decorate my room twice now. The same empty feeling remained like a hole. I’ve realized now what I’ve been trying to avoid realizing. It’s not the room, it’s the memory.
    The cradle had been removed. Along with the soft, baby pink color paint on the walls, and all the toys I had bought her to make her happy when she finally arrived. But the memory still haunted me, like a ghost. Like the ghost of the baby I lost, and the ghost of my sweet husband who was already as close as anyone could get to an angel before he died.
    I had scarcely noticed until then that tears were streaming down my cheeks. There were two holes, one for my baby, and one for my love. I knew my love, Brody Smith, had to go to war, but I was so excited by the thought of having a family, that I didn’t even think of the possibility he could die. I found out while I was going through my delivery from my little sister, Lizzy. The next thing I knew, my dead child, my dead baby, was in the doctor’s arms. He said the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck to tightly and…
    now a huge blonde jumble of knots on my head. My usually flawless face was wet with tears, and so twisted with grief that I barely recognized myself. My eyes were not only tearing, but blood shot from my tears, and lack of sleep. I quickly looked away.
    Brody used to tell me that my eyes were a deep, never-ending pit of crystal blue, and that they put the brightest stars in the sky to shame. I was about to start sobbing again when my little sister knocked on the door. I envied her right now. She looked so beautiful in her midnight blue gown, with her (washed, combed, and

    (curled) blonde hair, and huge dark brown eyes. She looked beautiful right now, she was married right now, and she wasn’t in deep depression.
    “Hello? Darla?” she said this in a carefully way, in a tone she had never used with me before. “May I come in?”

    “Yes.” I said. I hadn’t heard my voice in so long. It sounded hoarse and distorted from crying. I didn’t really want anyone to come in, but I didn’t want to disappoint her, again.
    She walked in with a glass of her secret recipe, homemade juice. Ever since we were little, we told each other everything. That juice is the only thing she’d ever kept a secret from me. “I made you some juice.” She said in the same careful tone as before, “My secret recipe.”
    “Thanks.”
    She knew me well enough to know I wanted to be alone. So she put the juice next to our mother’s favorite pot of belladonnas. But, when she turned to leave, she knocked the glass over, and it drained into the plants.
    “Oh no, Darla!” Alice shouted her careful tone now a worried, high pitched tone. “Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! When mother sees that her belladonnas didn’t bloom, she’ll be so sad!
    “She could get new ones.” I said.
    “Yeah, but she’ll know one of us did it!”
    “I’ll say it was me. She most likely won’t punish me.”
    “No.” she said, “Don’t take the blame. It’s made of all natural ingredients and unfertilized fruit. It might bloom. Just be positive.”
    Being positive is the reason for my down fall, I thought. “I hope you’re right.” I said.

    Two weeks have passed since Lizzy spilled her juice into the belladonnas. I was just staring at them, trying to keep my mind of of…
    I walked over to my closet. I’ve been wearing to same nightgown for three days. As I was looking through my over-stuffed closet, I heard a little girl’s voice from behind me say, “Hello?” The voice was a childish, high-pitched sound that almost broke my heart all over again, but in a good way. The voice made me feel happy for the first time in one and a half months. But then, I got scared. What if that was my baby’s voice, haunting me. Her ghost coming to punish me for having her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Or maybe, I was going crazy! I turned around and saw a little girl, no bigger than a thumb, standing in the middle of the fully bloomed belladonna plant. She had long, silky, red hair, with curls that were almost as curly

    as ringlets. She had strikingly bright green eyes the color of oak leaves, and was so petite! She was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! “Are you my mother?” She asked.
    I thought about that for a few seconds. The hole in my heart that my baby left, like scar, that always reminded me of the depression was gone. Not healed, but as if there had never actually been a hole in the first place.
    “Yes.” I said, “I am your mother.”

    She smiled the biggest, cutest smile I’ve ever seen after I said that. Then, for the first time in what seemed like centuries, I smiled too. I’ve realized after that day, that amazing smiles like that are contagious. It’s impossible to not smile after seeing Belladonna’s smile.
    That’s it! I thought. “Belladonna.” I said aloud.

    I woke up with a long yawn. I walked out of my flower two weeks ago, and it seemed like the whole world (that I knew of anyway) knew my name, and my story. My mother told me I should never go outside the castle. I don’t know why. She’s read my so many stories about life outside the castle, it sounds amazing! I’ve dreamed about how it would be like to go outside the castle. To run in the bright green grass, to dance along next to flowers, and maybe, I’ll even find someone my size!
    My mother walked in. “Are you all right?” My mother asked me.
    “Yeah.” I responded. She was about to walk out when I shouted, “Wait!” She walked to my side.
    “What is it?” she asked.
    “Are there other people like… like me?”
    She thought for a second, the way she did when she wanted to find the words for something. “Sweetie, there are stories of fairies; they’re supposed to be your size. Only, they have wings, like a bird, only… no… like a butterfly. But, no one knows if they exist.”
    “So, there’s no one like me that you know of?” I asked. I wasn’t expecting that. I just assumed that there must be. I mean she’s not the only human. “Then what am I?” I asked.
    “A miracle.” She said. “You are a miracle.”
    “I don’t want to be a miracle if that means I have to be the only miracle in the world.” I said. I didn’t get this at all. “If I’m the only miracle, how do you know what a miracle is?”
    She laughed. “A miracle is a gift from God.” She explained, “And you are my miracle.”

    I didn’t know who this God person was, or why everyone talks about him so much, but I didn’t want to argue. “Okay” I said, “I’m going to get dressed.”
    “Okay, Bella.”
    “Wait. I thought my name was Belladonna! With a donna at the end! Where is this Bella come from? I’m Belladonna! B-E-L-L… What’s the rest?” I asked.
    “B-E-L-L-A-D-O-N-N-A.” She said. I’m sorry, Belladonna.”
    “Thank you very much.” I said.
    “Good bye.” Darla said.

    “I love you!”
    “I love you too.” She said back.
    I skipped over to a pile of dresses on my bed. My grandma, Queen Lizzy, was still trying to find someone who could make one so small. I picked out a dark red one, with a big bow in the back (I really like big bows) that made my eyes stand out. My mother told me once, ‘Your eyes put the brightest stars in the sky to shame.’
    Then I got an amazing idea. What if I snuck out of the castle and found the fairies! Then I could fly with them, and fall in live like I always dreamed I would! Yes, I thought. That’s a perfect idea!

    That night, I held on to opposite sides of my blanket, and jumped out my window. I was scared at first, but I managed to make it to the ground safely. It was night, but not necessarily dark. The sun was going down, but there was still enough light to see clearly. The sun looked beautiful! It made the sky turn the prettiest shade of pink I’ve ever seen! As I walked, I started wondering about what the sky was made of. Was the sun a miracle like me? What happened next was to fast for my mind to comprehend at first, but I understood later.
    All the sudden I was soaring above France! It was so beautiful, with its couples walking in the moonlight on midnight strolls, and lights glowing everywhere. Wait, I thought. Lights? It was dark! I was flying! Who? What? When? Where? HOW? I looked up a saw a fairy with dark hair, and a beautiful face that should belong to a doll, carrying me through the night. It was amazing, flying. I felt no worry, or stress, or anything.
    Finally, we stopped on a tree branch. The fairy asked me in a harsh voice that almost hurt my feelings, “What were you doing? What were you thinking! You know you shouldn’t walk along humans!”
    “Why not?” I asked.
    “Because they’ll keep you hostage and…” she left of. “Don’t you know? You

    are a fairy aren’t you?”
    “Well, I don’t have wings.” I said.
    “How long ago were you born?” she asked. Her voice went from mean, to curious.
    “Two weeks ago. Why?”
    “Then you’ll have wings in the next few days, young one. Did you come from a house? A house with a human?”
    “Yes.” I said. “What’s wrong with that? Humans aren’t bad. They kept me safe.”
    “Well, did you sneak out, or did they let you out.”
    “I snuck out, but-“
    She cut me off, “See? They wouldn’t let you leave to be with nature! With life! How could they do that?”
    “I don’t know.” I said, “My mother said she was trying to protect me.”
    “A human? Your mother? No, no, no, nature is your mother. You were born out of a plant.”
    “Oh.” I was so confused. Why doesn’t she like humans? “Well, can you take me back to my not mother? I don’t think I want to be with fairies as much as I thought I did.”
    “No!” she shouted. “Not yet! I used to live with a human, and I’ve found that here, is a lot better. Maybe you could try it out for a few days and see if you like it. Then you could decide.”
    “Well, Darla would be worried.”
    “Incase you haven’t noticed, I’m the one with wings, who can take you home, and even when you get wings, you wont know the way.”
    I shrugged. “Good point. I mean, this is what I’ve always dreamed of.”
    “You got it!” she said. Her voice was happy now, and I could tell by how it sounded, that she usually was happy. “What’s your name?” she asked
    “Belladonna. Yours?”
    “Thumbelina.” She replied. “Now let’s take you to your bed.”

    I woke up the next morning in a bed with a wood frame and cotton bed sheets with a silk pillow. It wasn’t very colorful, but it was comfortable. Thumbelina was right. I realized I had wings! It didn’t even hurt like I expected it to. I felt dirty without bathing, and I was wearing nothing but a white slip, because wearing that dress

    While I slept would be very disturbing. But, I didn’t feel like waiting, I quickly put on a simple dress and went to explore the tree where supposedly all the fairies live. I got the hang of my wings on the first try, as if it were a hidden second nature I had no clue I had. I flew up to the top of the tree to see the view.
    The sky was the most amazing shade of blue, with trees as far as the eye could see. It was the most beautiful sight I’d ever seen. Then I felt something warm touch my elbow and I jumped around to see what or who it was.
    “Oh!” said a boy with red hair and light brown eyes the color of the tree bark. “I’m sorry if I scared you. Are you the new girl?”
    “’The new girl?” I repeated stupidly.
    “Yeah, the new girl.”
    “Well, for your future information, I’m not new; I was born two whole weeks ago. If I were new, I’d be smaller, and I am NOT small!
    “Alright.” He said. His voice was like velvet, so soft and smooth. And he was so handsome. “Then, are you new to the tree?”
    “Yes, in a matter of fact I am.”
    “Sorry, I don’t like it when people say I’m small either. I think as humans are just-“
    Then at the same time we said, “Freakishly large.”
    We both laughed then he asked, “What is your name?”
    “Belladonna, what’s yours?”
    “Belladonna,” It sounded as if he were trying the name on his tongue. “That’s a pretty name. My name is Jasper.”
    I laughed. “That’s a silly name!” I said. I instantly felt bad. He just complimented my name, and I made fun of his. I tried to fix it, “I mean it’s perfect.” I said quickly. It seemed to have worked. He laughed. Then he smiled. His smile made me smile, then, I seemed to realize what life was about.

    “Belladonna’s gone!” I could hardly believe it! I thought I was going to have a mental break down.
    “Yes,” Alice said. “She’s gone.”
    I couldn’t believe it. I fainted.

    I spent all day telling Jasper my secrets, my desirers, and my story. And I learned his. He told me how Thumbelina used to live with humans, and that she thought they were trying to keep her from her real family which she decided was nature.
    “I think she was foolish.” Jasper said. “It’s hard to live out here. It would be safer with humans to protect you from birds and things that can hurt you. I’d do anything to have a human family like you.”
    Just then, an idea came across my mind. “Jasper?” his name used to sound funny to me, like a foreign language. Now I felt… I don’t exactly know. I just never

    felt that way before.
    “Yes?” he said.
    “Do you know how to get to where the humans live?” Saying “humans” felt weird. I mean they’re just people like us, only bigger and who’d adapted to not need wings.
    “Yeah, Thumbelina took me one time.” Then I knew we both had the same
    crazy idea.

    Next thing I knew, we were flying, hand in hand, back to the castle. When we got there, we saw Darla. Her back was turned to them.
    “Look!” I said. “That’s my mother. Our mother.” Then she turned around. She was crying. “Oh no! Mother! No! Don’t cry! I’m right here! I pounded on the windows with all of my might.
    “Who’s there?” mother said. She turned around and saw me with Jasper. “Belladonna!” she shouted. She opened the window and made so many observations. “You have wings! You met a fairy! You are a fairy! You left me! You’re back!” She paused. “You’re holding hands.”
    We quickly released each other’s hands. I felt my face get hot. I wondered why. “You’re blushing.” Darla said.
    “I’m what?”
    “Blushing.” She said. “That’s what happens when you get embarrassed. What happens is your cheeks get reddish temporarily, and your face feels hot.”
    “That explains it.”
    Jasper joined our family, and we eventually got married. Darla was so proud of me.

    And we all lived happily ever after.

  403. Holas peeps I just got a really weird text message from a blocked number asking me to go onto some website called matchsauna.org and I swear the person was creeeeeppppppyyyyy…

  413. Ya it makes me curious but major warning lights too. I have no clue who or how they could’ve gotten my number, I only give it to my friends. And they wouldn’t give it away. But seriously, they said that I’ll never guess who they were but maybe I’d recognize them online. But I’m not even gonna go there, I’m not stupid.

  418. Hmmm…I could make brownies I guess…but that would mean I’d have to clean up the mess after…I’ll think about it. Oh that reminds me! The other day we went to the bakery to pick up a cake for my Dad’s birthday, and that place is like total awesome. Like the dentists worst nightmare. They had a freaking CHOCOLATE MOUSE! Seriously, it looked hecka cool! I wanted to get it, but I didn’t…*cries* I want an army made out of chocolate mice!

  420. Yeah…I still want a chocolate mouse though…I think we’re gonna have to go back and get one. They looked really yummy, but they’re like too freaking cute to eat! I’d probably just end up keeping it for as long as I could LoL.

  423. My dog has finally warmed up to my puppy, and ti waws adorable- they were chasing each other around the yard, with the dog, Makenzie, like 5 times bigger than the puppy, Madison. It was funny, because the puppy kept tripping but kept running, and even barked at Kenzie once. Kenzie pretty much growled at her the entire time but playfully.

  424. Aw, how cute! I have like 50 different songs stuck in my head at the same time and they’re all merging into one and its weeeeeeiiiiiirrrrrrrddddd…

  428. I’m definately all for The Color of Cat Vomit. That’s plain awesome lol that’s one of my favorite first lines ever

  432. I’m getting weird prank calls! It’s saying things like “You can’t hide from me.” and “I know where you live.” I’m really freaked out!

  441. Ok. LOL Lizzy-wa! Yeah, I’ve asked EVERYONE about it (That’s like 40 phone calls) and No One has a clue about it!

  447. yeah! I would sooooooo do that. She can be a real ***** sometimes! One time, she tried out for a play and got like 4 lines, so she went bragging to everyone! And I’ve been in 6 musicals and ALWAYS got an amazing part, and when she made up a play for her stupid video club she gave me the SMALLEST role! (Which ironicly had 4 lines.) How bogus is that?

  452. I wish I could turn her into a metiphorical acorns then wack her with a sledge hammer! muhahahahahahahaha!

  455. Oh yeah! Then I should turn her into a metiphorical David! So I can beat him up for trying to steal a dead man’s (Zane (may he rest in peace)) girl!!!!!

  459. Bedtime? **** Bedtime! Stay up! PPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! We’ll miss you if you leave! 🙁

  467. i just finished hawksong–serious ventation needed!!! i mean, srsly. it’s too confusing. i mean, so this one girl loves this one guy, then she has to get engaged to this other guy to save millions of lives, and the guy she’s engaged to says he could never love her because of the hatred between their two people, but he will marry her for peace. but the he was in love with a guard, she turned out to be evil, then the two main characters realize that they love eachother!!!! all of this after someone tried to kill them twice. i mean, i srsly needa vent some energy. one second….
    //goes to corner, screams until all glass shatters, comes back//
    i’m ok now.
    now i hafta wait for the second book to arrive…GRR!

  470. i like skin deep. but i think that going with some sort of oxymoron world be cool too. something like (well this one is lame) “I’m Pretty Ugly” or something. but like i said that ones kinda lame.

  474. I think the title could be Informed Consent. That’s been a recurring theme in the series, IMO, what with how the uglies /thought/ they were giving informed consent to have the pretty operation, but how they were having their brains tampered with. On the other hand, Zane is an example of how even giving one’s informed consent doesn’t always work out for the best–most notably in the operation that led to his death, but also when he took the de-lesioning pills with Tally. The Smokies represented distributing knowledge, but even by Specials, they were trying to change Tally forcibly (though Fausto had given his informed consent at the end of Pretties).

  486. Lots of mmmmmmms…going around eh? Yep. Yeah, my eyes have been bothering me lately. I apparently strained them from being on the computer too long and reading too long and reading in the dark(which was totally not my fault, if they’d have just let me finish the dang book I wouldn’t have had to read in the dark, lol jkjk) but ya, so I’m not supposed to be doing those things a lot till they stop bugging me, but dude might as well suck out my soul. Especially for the book part. So what’s up?

  513. I got my password for neopets emailed to me too

    and its really weird its about a girl who is tryinng to have abstanence but all this crap goes down where that doesnt happen and she finds out she has vagina dentata<—-you can look that up
    Im not going anymore into it because its rated R and I have no idea why I watched it

  533. Wow. This is REALLY off-topic. I hope you all don’t mind if I reply to the original topic here…XD

    These are ones that I’ve read that I like:

    Mindrain
    Under the Knife
    Skin Deep
    Ugly Truths
    The Side You Despise
    The Color of Cat Vomit (teehee)
    Rewired
    Also, I like this combination- Mindrain: When Pretty Gets Ugly

    I have a few of my own ideas…

    Staying Icy or Becoming Icy
    Ugly Mind or My Ugly Mind or Your Ugly Mind (..?)
    Things Might Just Get Ugly (from the last line of Specials)
    Pretty Special (get it; haha. lame I know)
    Behind the Pretty Face

    do you like any of those?

  534. I really, really like The Color of Cat Vomit. Mindrain and Behind the Pretty Face are good, too. How about “We’re Getting Rusty” or “After the Rust”. I DON”T KNOW. I’m awful at this kind of thing. 🙂

  535. Oh my goshhh

    I completely loooove

    Skin Deep
    &
    Ugly Truths

    Pick out of one of those. They’re relevant to what inside the book and i think they suit the complete point to the Uglies series really well!

    Alisha-la xo.

  538. Okay…I don’t want to sound stupid or anything, but…I don’t really get Skin Deep…

  540. Hmm I’ll think of some titles……..
    meanwhile I like

    Skin Deep
    Ugly Pretty
    The Side You Despise
    The Silent Truth
    THe Color of Cat Vomit

    and of course the absolute favorite

    CAKE
    personally I think its should be all Caps.

    I thought of
    The superficial truth
    A Strange Beauty
    Rewiring
    Rewiring the World
    CAKE and Destruction

  541. Oooh I like Rewiring the World! That sounds awesome!!

    I thought of another one:

    Last Words: Pretty, Special, and Cake

    teehee

  546. I wish I could take the credit for the title “Cake”, since it was in my post, 155, and I had posted it before I had read any of the earlier comments…

    but I see now that I had simply thought of something that others had, too. -_-

  552. Ooh I got a few more ideas…

    “Cutting the Cake”

    or…

    “To Cut or Not to Cut the Cake: That is the Question”

    (yeah lame, I know.)

  553. As much as I would love to suggest some fantastic original idea … I think that Mind Rain pretty much fits the idea perfectly. It’s short, people who have read the series will probably do a double take in whatever book recepticle they are wandering in, and it really seems to fit with the other titles of the series.

    Buuuut that’s just one bubblehead’s opinion.

  555. OMG! what about
    Bubbleheads: A Pretty Ugly Circumstance

    Idk what you guys think… but I think it catches the three books…
    so yeah but I also like Mindrain

  558. My currently favorites are…
    Destructive Freedom
    Nobody’s Special
    Rewired
    The Ugly Truth
    The Aftermath
    Rustie Revelations

    Whatever you name it I’ll buy it. Just reading the blog makes me want October to hurry up!

  560. All of these titles are wonderful…
    It’s so hard to come up with my own!
    Hmm,
    How about “How to Crash a Hoverboard 101”
    It’s kinda got a double meaning.
    There’s a lot of hoverboard crashing in the books and then there all the societies that crashed too. I dunno.
    Kind of lame idea.

  562. Pretty, Special, Ugly, Cake
    (the last words of all the books)

    Harry Potter, Eat Your Heart Out! (I suppose this would be better for a similar Twilight series book.)

    Scott Requests: Help me Make Money! (Hey, it’s honest.)

    Saving Face

    I like Pretty Ugly.

  565. Lets see, there are 564 comments ALREADY so I’m not sure if this has been said or not, but why not just, Cat Vomit?

    Its simple, and anyone who hasn’t read the books will most definitly be interested in something called cat vomit. Anything to do with that first line in uglies, because its pretty much the best opening line and where it all starts.

    Other than that I like Mind rain the best.

  572. Well, I’ve only read the midnighter trilogy so far-don’t worry, I’m currently trying to find a decent book store that has THE UGLIES in stock-so I might not be very good at this. But, this is me trying:

    “Difference” or
    “Out-Casting”

    I know they’re silly, but HEY, I wanna feel like I contributed. 🙂

  573. ha! I come here and what do I see? my second favorite author’s book on my first favorite author’s website! how cool and random is that?
    anyways, I really like the titles Skin Deep, Ugly Truths, and Mindrain. those are really good ones!
    oh and I also like this one: “That’s Some Pretty Special Cake”
    I don’t know, it’s kind of silly but I like it!

  574. I realize that I’m waaay late in commenting on this, but oh well, I don’t care.

    How about “The Beauty in Ugly” as a title? I was listening to a song that almost sounds like it was written by Tally and Zane in New Pretty Town — Entropy Reigns (In the Celestial City) by Kelley Polar, if you want to know — and that title popped into my head.

  577. Here are a couple of suggestions:

    -Underminded Beauty
    -Beauty’s Way Of Destroying
    -The Change After 16
    -Special Destruction: Going Underneath
    -Turning Icy
    -Behind the Surge

    I hope this help..

  578. Heres some reading suggestions:

    Vampire Kisses
    Evernight
    Gossip Girl sereies
    TWILIGHT (favorite)
    Vampire Beach
    Romeo and Juliet (make sure there are notes with it)
    Pride and Predidce (however you spell it)
    Wicked (Not the musical)
    All of Scott-la’s books
    Bad Kitty
    The Juliet Club
    Vampire Diaries

    I LOVE vampire books they are soooooooo romantic!

  579. Hm…I’ll give it a go.

    Cliques
    Mind over Matter
    In the Eye of the Beholder
    True Beauty
    Pretty Ugly and Extra Special
    Two-faced
    Center of the Universe

    Gosh…I’m brain-dead right now. Oh, there’s a title: Brain-Dead.

    I also like Special Circumstances, Pretty Ugly, and Skin Deep.

  580. I still really like Cat Vomit .. Its for the true fans who know what it means and for the people who think the title is interesting

  581. I LOVE pretty ugly and extra special, thats genius! LUV IT

    PS: SCOTT-LA WRITE A NEW POST!! PLEASE!!!

  584. Okay I don’t really get what Skin Deep means…(yes I have read all the books) can someone PLEASE explain what it means?

  585. Okay… well first i wanna say im a HUGE fan of uglies & pretties. Im in the middle of pretties and really hooked. I like Adventures in Special Circumstances, Skin Deep, and Ugly Truths. Or you could name it Crims.

  586. I just realized… Uglies, Pretties, and Specials kinda remind me of The Giver by Lois Lowry
    so if you like these books you should probably check that one out…
    Hmmm..

    Saving Face
    Cake or Death?
    Best Friends Forever

    thats all I got today..

  587. oh and Sella-Wa Skin Deep I think is based on the old saying
    “beauty is only skin deep”

  588. Oh, okay, that sort of makes sense now…thanks!

    I agree, SurgeMonkey, this series does remind me of the Giver trilogy by Lois Lowry!

  589. and then it sorta branches out like The Giver series does with Gathering Blue and The Messenger… its crazy
    hmm… but I like them both so it’s all good lol

  590. Wow! I’m in the 590s! Guess it doesn’t matter. I’ll throw in my two cents anywhoo. 🙂

    -Tallying Evolution
    (I HAD to come up with some play on the word Tally…)

    -Radical Rebellion
    (Using a bit from Radical Honesty)

    -The Tally Transfiguration
    (…even though this doesn’t encompass everything the book would be talking about.)

    -Crims, Cults, Cutters and Cures
    (Yeah, take some, leave some, add some. The “C” words just worked here.)

    -Challenging the Gods
    (You go Andrew Simpson Smith!!)

    -Insight into the World of Beautiful, Useless Things
    (“The world needed more fireworks–especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.” Specials pp. 370.)

    -Revolution Rewired
    (This one’s a bit self explanatory…)

    Yeah, I’m a bit of a nut for alliteration. ^_^ Some of the other ideas were great, too! Can’t wait to see what it’ll be called!
    -Soph

  591. ooh i know how about “Randoms” u know i mean in speacials they talk alot about randoms so the book could be called “Randoms”.

  593. NO HE DOESN’T HE NEEDS TO ROT IN HELL!!

    Sorry. Erm. *clears throat* Yeah, SurgeMonkey, I like both…

    Soph, how about you add ‘Cake’ to the title with c’s? (Crims, Cults, Cutters, Cures, and Cake)

  594. I am really confuzzled with cake. I read the series sooooo many times, but confusion still strikes me. TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!! There should DEFINATELY be an Uglies movie. I would see it 5,000,000 times!

    Challenging the Gods ROX MY SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  597. Well, i really like the titles Mindrain, Skin Deep, Uglies: Truth revealed. But whatever title you choose, i’ll still read it anyways.
    and i agree with Rain-la there should be a MOVIE. the whole world would be excited. OMG!!! can you imangine that: the whole world would be excited. when you finally make up your mind Scott be sure to tell us.

  598. i like the ugly truths title because it fits the dystopian literature genre and the main theme of the books… its too bad this isnt coming out till later because im doing my paper this summer on these books and others in the genre and this would help me out with writing it. i think the book is a good thought for future reference on other papers and for the interests of the fans of the series!! cant wait!

  599. I really like About Face, haha and Surviving on Spagbol.

    Someone said ‘Face it’ I like that one. Like “Face it Tally-wa you’re Special”

  601. Facial Structure. XP

    idk why, just it sort of implies an explanation. And the facial is in there cuz of the series

  602. I like Skin Deep:Price of Perfection: & um so heres mine,

    *Enter the Eyes of Shay (just cause she’s my favorite character I might be alone on that?)

    *Into a Dystopic World

    *How Tally’s world works (I really don’t know just woke up[yea I know i need to get a life])

    *From a Cutters Perspective

    *Cake (yea no i did not come up with that i like it though & then that should end with Extras HA!)

    Also I would like maybe a few little extra medium sized books from Shay and Davids point of view I mean we were never informed alot about how they saw the world so we always saw it from Tally’s eyes.Just a suggestion.

  603. I like “skin deep.”
    “About face” is a little too military.
    Might looks like a manual of arms or something.
    hahaha.
    :]
    Though, come to think about it, the military is sort of a conformist thing.
    Was that perhaps the thought train behind that one?

  604. “Skin Deep” is a perfect name !

    But how about “The Ugliest Truths”

    Hmm… here’s some more !

    ~ “Dark Truths”

    -or-

    ~ “Ugly Secrets”

    I know these are not the best, but why not put some titles in !! (:

  609. how about ‘challenging the gods’? did someone already suggest that? :/

    i also like ‘be tricky, be bubbly, stay icy’ or something along those lines…

    or ‘The New System’

    but ‘Skin Deep’ is waaay over used…just my opinion 🙂

    ‘The next time we meet, it might get ugly’ <–baha im a sucker for last lines in books 🙂

    ‘Do i LOOK like a bubblehead?’ <–and i loved that line

    ‘Welcome to Diego…’

    ok i suck. I know. Dont attack me :/

  610. rofl, i like “adventures in special circumstances”: ITS HILARIOUS!!!!!! but i also like “the color of cat vomit”. i can just imagine the look on my moms face when i tell her the new book i want is “the color of cat vomit”. lol

  612. Bubbleheads is genious. Also,the coler of cat vomit,and my idea, How to Crash a Pretty Party.I mean,come on,that`s one of the things tally is known for,and all the fans would totally get it

  615. late comment but watever. ok i have some that i just thought of:
    1. A TYC (Tally Youngblood Circumstance. kinda plays off my name only the last word is different but it still works)
    2. How to Take Whole Cities Down
    3. Bogus, Bubbly, Icy, and Everything in Between.
    4. Double Sided Beauty (dunno if anyone said that. it sounds familiar)
    5. The Art of Betraying Your Friends (Tally does that alot)
    6. What Being Used Feels Like
    7. Beauty=Bubblehead (ok not my greatest idea)
    8. Cut Out Beauty (works with cutting and beauty)
    9. SCARS
    10. Until the Fireworks Burst (wow that felt deep. maybe coz i just read a really deep, sad, and thought provoking book)

  618. what book TYC Leader-la?

    hehe. i agree with 5. tho i dont think its a good title cuz… we dont wanna be MEAN to Tally-wa… tho sometimes i wanted to…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😐

  619. Lizzy-wa: the book is the analogy other authors are doing on Uglies. they’ll be answering different questions and stating their opions on the books. also i really didn’t just mean Tally coz Shay sorta betrays her too and Peris coz he just lets there friendship die. soooo ya it’s kinda like all the characters, but mostly Tally coz she does it the most even though she doesn’t mean too.

    Thanx for looking at the titles. sorry for being like a pain bout it. i just wanted to see if my ideas were good enough for other people to like. and i agree the first three were some of the best i came up with especially #1 i just really love that name. and #2 just makes sense for Tally and the Cutters. #3 also works with everything.

    GREEN DAY!!!! <3
    I sit in the state of a day dream.
    With all of ur words flying over my head.
    Even more time gets wasted in the daze
    It should seem obvious to u
    Ur screams and cries are never going to work.
    And all of ur time gets wasted in my daze.

  621. more ideas!!!!!
    1. Brainwashed
    2. A Pretty Ugly Circumstance
    3. SUPER (Special, Ugly, Pretty, Extra, Rusties. ugh.. not my best)
    4. Celtic Swirl (Tally’s flash tatoo. kinda dumb and only obsessive people would get it. like me)
    5. I Had to Hurt You, But I Didn’t Want To (Tally does that to a lot of people. and let’s get this clear Tally is my favorite character but all the titles i think of have to do with her so i’m not dissing her the titles just make sense)

    i have another one but it’s only joking. i seriously wouldn’t want this to be a title of ANY book. ok here it is: S.T.D.Z (sounds like STDS ugh… but it means Shay, Tally, David, and Zane. but when i thought of it i started laughing…ya…my mind is sick sometimes)

    GREEN DAY!!! <3
    Where have all the b*****ds gone?
    The underbellie stacks up ten high.
    THe dummie failed the crash test.
    Collecting unemployment checks.
    The flunkie went in along for the ride.
    Where have all the riots gone?
    As this city’s motto gets pulverized.
    What to love is now in debt.
    On ur birth certificates.
    So strike the f***ing match to light this fuse.

  622. 1. Take Care of the World and What You Do With It
    2. Radical Circumstances
    3. Nanos of Destruction (there are nanos in every book that cause destruction)
    4. The Next Time We Meet
    5. The Ugly Things About Beauty
    6. Cable Cutters (Dr. Cable’s Cutters. sounds better shorter)
    7. Beautiful Destruction (Pretties turn agains the city and the white orchid killed all the crops but it was still beautiful)

    hmmm…maybe i should start using this creativity on something else….huh.

  624. OOH! OOH! OOH! i LOVE number 3 on comment 621 TYC-la!!! SUPER!!! that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool!

    Special
    Ugly
    Pretty
    Extra
    Rusty.

    HOW FAWESOME IS THAT?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  625. COOL!!!! some people actually looked at my ideas! THANKS!!!! and the comments are nice too. i mean i wasn’t sure how other people would feel about the titles. i wasn’t sure if they were dumb or if they would make u wanna read the book. coz i know some of them were kinda stupid but others…i was just like “BRILLIANT!!! I AM AMAZING!!!” ok so maybe i wasn’t totally that cocky but i thought some of them were good. mostly the ones everyone else thought were good too. all i want to know now is if a title was already chosen or if i’m just wasting creativity on nothing. hmmmm…it’d be really cool if one of my ideas was chosen, but with my luck probably not. *SIGH*

  626. hmmm…it’s fun making up these titles (even though one was probably already chosen,but….watever)
    1. Smokies: Rebels or Heroes in Disguise?
    2. Keep Challenging the Gods
    3. Sayshal
    4. The True Shape of the World (Andrew Simpson Smith learns that the earth is round. and everything else plays with it)
    5. Beyond the Little Men (sounds familiar…hmmm…i dunno. kinda cool though.)

  627. I like 2 and 5! Hehe, beyond the little men…
    Although, I still like the only one I could think of: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglies.
    You should be a professional book-namer or something. c:

  628. Milly-wa: that’s a good title. it makes sense and it’s creative. and uh… THANX!!! for saying i should be a pro book-namer (hopefully that was a compliment coz i took it as one) u made me blush… ok not really but that was nice to say!! 🙂 ya 2 and 5 were good but i liked some of the others i came up with too.

  629. How about something with Brain Damage? like… idk…
    “Enforced Brain Damage”
    or
    “Brain Damage: The Truth Behind Pretty-Making”

    idk… but definately something having to do with that, turning their brains to mush and whatnot… but yeah… i also like “Ugly Truths” and “Turning Pretty”

  630. I also like (this is really long cause im taking about every title in this that i like plus a few i came up with or added to sry…)
    “Mind Rain”
    “The Price of Perfection”
    “Staying Icey”
    “The Extra Special things about being Pretty Ugly”
    “Pretty, Ugly, and Everything In Between”
    “Be Tricky, Get Bubbly, Stay Icy, and Kick It!”
    “Dizzy-Making Truths: Brain Damage” (i added “Brain Damage” but I think there should be a subtitle there Lizzy-wa… hope you dont mind”
    “Two Birds With One Stone”
    “Joy Ride”
    “Tally Youngblood: The Truth, The Lies, The Answers”
    “Beginning of an End”
    “Four Sided Reality” (Tally & Zane? Awsome title… u seemed to think it was lame… but its not)
    “Rusty’s Guide to the Uglies Universe” (no “The”)
    “A Rustie’s Insight into The Not So Perfect Future”
    “The Uglies the Pretties and the Just Plain Special”
    “Best Friends Forever?” (with a question mark… not an exlamation point or no punctuation at all… it needs the ?”
    “Rewired”
    “Skin Deep: Dizzy-Making Truths and Rustie Revelations”
    “Rustie Revelations”
    “A Rusty Look on Pretties” (i kinda stoleish it from Abigal-wa… hope you dont mind… but i like that idea)
    “Lesions: The Price Of Pretty”
    “When Pretty Gets Ugly”
    “The Side You Despise”
    “Freedom Has a Way of Destroying Things”
    “Rewiring the World”
    “Bubbleheads: A Pretty Ugly Circumstance”
    “Pretty… With a Price”
    “Brainwashed”
    “Special
    Uglies
    Pretties
    Extra’s
    Rusties”
    “Hey You With the Face!” (just find it amusing… and it definatly fits…)

    So yeah… (btw, yes i did read the entire thingish… i skipped over the conversation part of it and only read the parts about the actual books/titles… but the story intrigued me and i read that… very interesting btw…)

  631. out of the ones lexi-wa mentioned i like:

    “The Price of Perfection”

    “Pretty, Ugly, and Everything In Between”

    “Rusty’s Guide to the Uglies Universe”

    “Rewired”

    i like some of the other ones too, i just don’t feel like finding and typing them.

    ~Aryll-wa

  632. thanks Aryll-wa! i kinda killed an afternoon reading everything and putting down the ones that really stood out! but yeah…

  634. Well about Shay… do talk about her!
    Many times I found her more the protagonist.
    She believed in the Smoke, in David, she was against the Pretty operation on her own.
    She didn’t need Tally, Tally needed her.
    Tally always needs Shay.
    Shay’s more genuine.
    Even up to Extras, Tally needs Shay for stability…

    But I like the Colour of Cat Vomit or Pretty Ugly or Mindrain

    can’t wait!!!

  635. i like adventures in special circumstances. it has lots of nice long words in it! when in 09 does this come out?????

  636. Serafina Zane’s idea for “Cake!” Is totally awesome. I also really liked Skin Deep and Under the Knife. Oh, and The Price of Perfection, The Color of Cat Vomit, and The Ugly Truth.
    Also, you should totally write a fifth book. In which Zane is discovered to be miraculously alive and cured. And the he and Tally live happily ever after. Or, you could do that in this book. Like write an epilouge or somethng. With Zane. Alive. Please????

  637. I like, Cutting Through( like from hazy to bubbly or icy,and as in the knife cutting through you

    And……

    What the knife holds

    and…. It’s YOUR face

  639. so….does the book have a title yet?
    not so updated but i look forward to
    these books bcuz they’re great. it’s
    pretty creative. btw, i do like some of
    the ideas they have going there. especially
    serifina zane’s own. interesting stuff you
    (the author) have going here!!

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  643. I really like the color of cat vomit.

    PS yes my name is Talie. It’s just spelled different then “Tally”.

    Also maybe another title could be: Life in a Godly World

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