FAF with Radio Interview

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After my continent-spanning tour for Goliath, I did what’s called a “radio tour” for the book. This phrase may sound mildly glamorous, but what it really means isn’t so much “tour” as “sit in a room and talk on the phone to strangers at weird hours of the day.”

Alas, some of these strangers will be drive-time yuck-meisters who talk in their funny radio voices EVEN WHEN NOT ON THE RADIO. It is churlish to complain about any form of publicity, but those guys hurt my brain.

Them: “So what ABOUT that World War I, huh? It was a PRETTY BIG DEAL!”

Me: “Yes. About fifteen million people were killed, and another thirty million succumbed to the Spanish flu cause by the dislocation of–”

Them: “So, are they gonna make a MOVIE?”

Rest assured, though, that many of my interviewers were articulate hosts who’d read the book and had cool questions. I thought I’d share one of the resulting interviews, from Texas Public Radio’s Some Books Considered. The host is Dan Skinner.

(And yes, it DOES sound like I have a lisp. I think that’s my crappy phone’s fault. Well, not MY phone. I don’t actually have a landline, and had to borrow one. Because, excuse me, LANDLINE? Sorry, but 1993 called and asked to have their communication protocols back, so I sent them all the twisted copper in my house.)

Click here to listen to the interview at TPR’s site.

And now for some FAF.

Two weeks ago, I said that Helen Yoon’s lovely piece of fan art would make a good poster for Goliath, the Musical. And someone did it . . .

Remix by is by Margaret E. Original art by Helen Yoon.

And here are two chibi pieces from Helen. Lil’ Lord Alek:

And the mighty Deryn Sharp, of the Clan McSharp:

Chibi versions of a character allow us to see into the true soul of that character. Of this I approve.

And from one of my rather younger readers, Jeremiah, here’s a Clanker vs. Darwinist battle!

I can’t tell you how many things like this I used to draw as a kid. But it was always either World War II or aliens vs. tanks. But I never did any drawings with a bat-poo attack. No, we didn’t have bat-poo warfare in my day. We used to lie awake at night, dreaming of bat-poo warfare. You kids don’t know how lucky you are.

And here’s a sketch from Eli, clearly inspired by the Goliath bonus chapter:

I can see there’s going to be more Alek in a dress stuff. And why not?

And here’s something for those of you who’ve been asking for more Newkirk. Here he is! On an old-school motorcycle!

And finally, this steampunk scrapbook by fanpireashley:

It is a beautiful thing.

For the first time in a year or so, my coffers are slightly low on fan art. Maybe it’s because the series is *sniffs* over. But feel free to send some my way.

2,251 thoughts on “FAF with Radio Interview”

  2. IT’S THERE!!!!!!!!!!!! NEWKIRK IS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO FAFS IN A ROW FOR YOU LISSA!!!!!!! AHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE OVER, MR. WESTERFELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL YOUR PAIN, TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. MY BROTHERS NAME IS JEREMIAH!!!!!!!! Of course he hasn’t read your books because he’s a loser when it comes to reading (and I of course say that in the nicest, most un-insulty way possible, Jere), but still, not a common name.

    I love the poster and chibis:) The critics quotes sounds just like them:)

  11. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I’m on FAF again!!!! SO…. EXCITED!!! (I’m the Newkirk drawing!!!)
    I’m super extra happy now because my mom, who went to college for art (before nursing) said that it was good!!!!! EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!

  12. The fan art is really cool, but i do have to agree with one thing though……………IT DOESN’T HAVE TO END!!!!!!!!!!!!! pLEASE DON’T END THE SERIES!!!!!!!!! and now for some heavy critisim. In fact the chibi pieces kind of scary. The rest seem really cool though!!! EXSPICIALLY THE ONE WITH ALEK IN A DRESS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!XD. I feel like i’ve said to much so i’m going to go for now.

    P.s. how do get the art to scott westerfeld!! someone please tell me!!!!PLEASE!!!!

  14. @Omar 12. On the right side, there is a “Contact” part with a “Click here to contact Scott Westerfeld” below it. Click where it says click and then it will pop up to send him an email, and you can either link it or attach it like any other email. You’re welcome.

  18. @Mr. Westerfeld. I will send you lots of FanArt! I can try for one every week, if you want.
    And, honestly, don’t you remember all of our (one-sided) conversations about the companion series? So it is clearly NOT over.

  20. I email him too! He answered the first 3 or 4 now nothing:( I check my inbox everyday in hope of a email…

  23. THIS STINKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!! my computer won’t allow me to contact him. Can someone just tell me his e-mail address.

  24. I need to read the Leviathan series! I just read the Uglies series and I LOVED IT! My sister got me obsessed with it. Also, any information on the Uglies movie date yet?

  28. @Middy Miles. Thanks for the e-mail address. Sadly though I do not have a blog or a devianart account. sorry.

  29. @Omar. Darn… Hey, would you like to read some FanFic…? Because I, on the other hand, do in fact have a blog that I’ve been posting it on. *Waggles eyebrows like any good salesman* All you have to do is click on my name and find chapter one in the “2011” part on the right side…

  30. @24-I’m addicted to uglies as well and the UGLIES MOVIE comes out in November!!!!
    UGLIES LIVES

  35. Yea I asked people what the first word was when they heard my name they all say:uglies series
    UGLIES LIVES

  38. @Middy Miles. OMG. Your writing is so good. I wish I could write like that. I swear you word choice sounds just like scott’s. It totally reminds me of the leviathan series. You should turn it into a book. I’m not sure if that would be legal though.LoL!!

  40. @Sam. adorable chibi. no offense to who ever did that piece of art, but since when is Deryn IRISH!!!!!

  42. I got to get off but i can make to morining.*inside i’m crying knowing I have to rip my hands from the keyboard*

  43. @40. Yeah. she’s from Glasgow of the UK, often described as Scotish!
    @38. Thank you so much! Unfortunately, it would be very very illegal. I try to write other stuff, which is completely of my own creation, but it fails. Epically. I can post it if any of you want, but please be prepared to be disappointed. And I try to make it sound like Scott. I really try 🙂

  46. @Sophie-la aka Sorley thanks I can’t wait!!! I have an obsession too. I want it to be Febuary 28 when Shay’s Story comes out!

  50. Alright. We’d better make sure Levi knows. I’m still so excited Singe got posted! And something very dramatic is happening in my FanFic! I won’t tell you, though.

  52. *_*
    I believe ALL of Scott Westerfelds Books Should Be Made Into Movies
    He Is The Best Author Out There And Deserves Credit For His Work (:
    Iv Always Loved His Work And I Despretly Do Not Want The Leviathan Series To End I Cried At The End Of Goliath Because I Thought It Was The End And I Was Over Joied When The Bonus Chapter Came Out And I Cried Again Cos It Truly Was The End Of The Series How Sad And Depressing /:
    I WANT MORE LEVIATHAN!!!!!
    As Well As Uglies !(; Because That was The First Series I Read By Scott Westerfeld And I Never Regreted It For A Moment <3

  54. @Sophie-la aka Sorley

    I agree. The Uglies is my favorite Westerfeld series and Leviathan is my least favorite series. I was totally going to say that sooner, but I was afraid everyone here would totally get angry at me.

    As a lover of musicals (especially old ones) I LOVE the Leviathan musical poster! It’s perfect!

    I feel though that Leviathan would make a bad musical. It’d make a pretty good sci/fi movie though :). Or maybe a miniseries on TV…

  56. Is it sad that I got really, REALLY excited when Mr. Fancy Radio Guy said something about undertsanding that there was going to be a fourth book in the installment?!

  59. @58-my mother says that I have a quote “unhealthy obsession with Scott Westerfeld” an I said “no I’m obsessed with his books” (Scott-la your awesome too no worrys) and yea….that makes me wanna read all of his series!!im about halfway done with the first MIDNIGHTERS……
    UGLIES LIVES

  61. @ 53- AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, ISN’T IT JUST BRILLIANT??????? THANK YOU MILES FOR DRAWING IT AND SCOTT FOR POSTING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  67. @65-UGLIES LIVES
    UGLIES LIVES
    UGLIES LIVES
    UGLIES LIVES
    UGLIES LIVES
    U-G-L-I-E-S L-I-V-E-S

  70. You know, if you wrote a fourth installment, Mr. Westerfeld, there would be fan art GALORE! Just a thought.

  72. @ 70- I mean with the characters.
    Besides, with the Manual of Aeronatics, it will be all pictures and captions and such, so really, there wouldn’t be any fan art anyway because there would be no plot or things they could delve deeper into.

  73. Love critics `raving` on the musical poster LOL
    I did the musical poster as well, and it`s on the Leviathaneer group on deviantart.

    Well, I`ve done fan art, but I think what he means is that he`s low on decent fan art 🙂

  75. these pictures are awesome and and simplyRonnie i finally got on here YAY!!! tell me what you think of my name

  79. Sorry, guys! I gotta go! Bye!
    I realize I scream a lot on here.
    I promise I won’t do it anymore.
    BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  82. Wow, Volger’s review is quite an enthusiastic one, I must note. He sure is one for such trifles as musicals, isn’t he? Quite like him.

    I think I know, but refresh my memory; is the Manual Of Aeronautics in colour, or just black and white, like the books? I’d love to see Deryn’s blue eyes.

  85. @59
    My Mother Said That As Well, But I Tbink That’s My Mother Being My Mother
    And No Disagreement About Uglies It’s An Awesome Novel by An Awesome Authour (:

  87. @54. How. Dare. You. Leviathan is the best book trilogy ever to be created in the history of forever. Books Before Boys, you are officially being shunned, as I would start screaming if I were to talk to you. Hmph.
    @53. Thank you, Zaliz-la, for liking my drawing. Are you interested in some FanFic, too? *Waggles eyebrows like any good salesman…again* See comment #29 for instructions on how to find it. Muahaha.
    @75. Hullo, Nick/Nicki! Pleased to make your acquaintance! I’m Midshipman Miles Molloy of His Majesty’s ship Leviathan. (Well, my crossdresser half is. The real me is a humble highschooler named Melissa.)
    @79. Nice, Ron. And no chapter 10 for you until I’m halfway through 11. 🙂 eyebrows…

  88. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And Nikki is another of my school friends who I reccomended Leviathan to, and now she, Josh, and I are Levia-buddies at school.
    Technically, Nikki and I are Kindle Queens because we take our Kindles everywhere. A teacher walking down the hallway called us that, and the name shall forever stick.

  111. lol simplyRonnie suggested the leviathan series to me and I LOVED IT!!! i would have been named nikola but decided on nick i’m not that much of an inventor at all

  130. I took a while to respond to this becuase I was absorbed in Middy Miles’ fanfic, which was amazing by the way.

    I like how deryn is in a kilt, so she’s both pretending to be a boy AND stuffed in skirt. Which would probably explain why she looks so annoyed.

  131. @ 129- I would’ve wanted him to burst into Shakespeare…..
    @ 130- and apparently she likes oranges.

  134. If an author were to read a fanfic and then write something like a companion book that had ANYTHING to do with the fanfic, the person could, if they were a bum rag, sue him for idea theft. So authors can’t read fanfics to avoid all such complications, which sucks. The thing is the same for song artists, like you know how this one girl sued the Black Eyed Peas for ‘stealing her song’ that she emailed them? According to her, they stole “Boom boom dynamite” and made it “Boom Boom Pow” without crediting her.
    So, yeah. It’s a load of clart, but it’s reality. 🙁

  135. hey everyone sry simplyRonnie for not responding i was reading the bonus chap. SOOO AWESOME

  142. and simplyRonnie i wont have my kindle in school because im reding one of the books my dad got me

  163. IDK if you did. My sister had to go and be a bumrag about it and rain on my parade. She’s grumpy right now and said, “You know it’s not real, right?”

  167. @ 163- what is not real? Leviathan? Or the fan club? Is she your younger sister? My younger sister is like that, too.

  173. SHe’s my older sister. I think she means all of it. Like Leviathan isn’t a real thing, your fanfic can go nowhere because it’s a fanfic, you can’t trust anything on the internet, and you’re wasting your time with it. Stuff like that which I do unfortunately know but enjoy anyway.

  175. @ 173- I don’t expect you to trust me, since it IS the internet, but I do have a bunch of school friends here that can vouch for me that I’m not some crazy psychopath. I’m crazy, but not a creep.

  177. Eh. I guess. I trust you enough to chat with you online, but I’m gonna keep the standard boundaries of no personal info, no “real life meetings” etc. You know, the usual. Don’t take offense, please. I believe you really are a teenage girl named Rachel who loves LBG as much as I do.

  178. @ 177- I agree, too. I mean, it’s better to be safe than…. unsafe. And don’t worry, I completely understand, because my parents think the same way about the Internet.

  181. Mhm. Mine too, I guess, but it’s not going to stop me from this. It’s an author’s website, for crying out loud, and I’m not going to do stupid stuff about/on it. Come on, have some faith, my family. 🙂

  188. I can’t disclose all information, but you work in the Kjolen mountains on *words left out to avoid spoiler* and when something happens that brings in our protagonists, your side in the war (Allies or Central Powers) wavers. And you’re super witty.

  195. @ 191- Well, I hope he would somewhat resemble me. But he would probably be much wittier than I. Wait, is he a crossdresser? I keep getting confused as to whethere he is or not.

  198. Hey Rachel! Hey Middy Miles! I’m sorry Miles, but I haven’t gotten much of a chance to do anything on the iternet and haven’t read your fan fic.

  200. Okay, here’s the Ronnie rundown. Ronnie is actually Rachel, and all of her fellow Clanker engineers know that, but since they spend so much time together it’s a lot easier for them to just pretend she’s a guy, too, since they’re doing very unladylike things (i.e. making Clanker contraptions and lifting heavy objects and getting covered in grease.) so they call her Ronnie instead of Rachel to lessen moral dilemas. All I can say at to their reasoning is that they’ve been in the mountains for quite a while.

  203. I was at a scholastic bowl meet all day, and that’s why I missed so much. I was gone after school yesterday at my sisters swim practice, so that’s why I wasn’t on then.

    The FAF is awsome, but I haven’t listened to the recording yet.

  212. @210- That would be pretty cool, would it be like Dr. Barlow in the original series were I am of lesser importance, but come up often? Or would I be like Pancho, were I come up once and then never appear again? Because if it’s the first one, I would love to be Dr. Barlow’s personal science helper!! 🙂 Otherwise, if it is the second one, I would love to be a scientist of some sort on either side! 🙂

  216. If it is the first choice, I would be different from Alek and Deryn because they are more like spies, but I would help with fabrication and politics.

  226. @ 222- I’m not saying that Clanker Contraptions aren’t awsome, I just like Darwinist Beasts a bit better. Also, I guess you think seedless watermelons are Godless to then.

  227. Okay, Sorley and M@X, I have an opening or two as minor midshipmen or maybe a rigger. You wouldn’t see very much of a fabricator’s assistant, as most of the story takes place out and about, away from the lab. Sorley if you were a midshipman you’d actually have to be a guy. I could, though, bring you in as a tricky girl who follows *name censored to avoid spoilers* around.

  231. Please make me a rigger, because then I get a sniffer dog!!!!!!!!!!!! I will name her Zipper, after my dog in real life. Unless it’s a him, then I would name him Patches after my other dog that is actually my mom’s.

  232. M@X. I like the idea of you being a rigger. They don’t show up a lot in LBG, so it would be good to meet one, and he could be great friends with one of the slightly larger characters, and maybe tag along on an adventure or two.
    Sophie. I really want you to be the last option, because you could be an emotionally wounded woman who hangs on to [name not disclosed] for reasons soon to be revealed! Yes, this is good! Quite a sticky boots, you’ll be! Muahaha!

  234. @ Rachel- I made you look like a ninny! I made you look like a ninny! I made you look like a ninny! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.

  239. @134
    Okay I’m a bit late on the reply cos I fell asleep but that is so not right I may not know you very well but you don’t seem
    Like The type to sue

  240. … so many ideas! I should probably start writing then, huh, before they go away? Hmm…write a story plot line or do even more boring homework… be a good child or have some fun and procrastinate… I only have 2 US history assignments left, and I could do those tomorrow *promptly gets out a notebook and begins to put her plot on paper*

  246. @239. No, I am most certainly not the type to sue. I would be honored to have my ideas used by a professional author, in fact, but that sadly doesn’t make any difference in the world. *sighs* if only. I have a fantasy that he and I co-author a companion series. If you look back at the comments, you can see how hardcore I’ve been planning my fanfic out. It’s unsettling, really, how in to this I am, even though it is doomed. 🙁 but yet 🙂

  251. @ 247- besides, my character is BS, so…. Ja, I need to be awesome like him…. or her…… I suppose.

  255. @250. Already posted, man. And thank you.
    @249. Who, guys. Stop the violence. OR I WILL INTERVENE WITH MY WORDS, WHICH SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTION!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN I’M YELLING LIKE THIS!!!

  257. @ 252- I got it, but you can help if you want.
    @ Middy Miles- They should fabricate a new kind of air beast shaped like a giant turtle, with the hydorgen memberane inside the shell to help protect it from puncturing.

  263. Also, it would be waaay out there from my planned story line, and would totally detract from the main point and throw off the carefully set balance. Yeah, my brother and I talked about what was going to happen in it for at least an hour tonight.

  264. @261-I have never posted it anywhere, and quite frankly I dont know how……………………………But I wanna show you,I am terrible with computer
    UGLIES LIVES

  265. @262: I am not saying leviathan big, just little two to four man ships that can be launched from like the gondola of a big airship.

  272. @ 268 Yes, they could move fast and they each have an air gun mounted on the back. Their main purpose would be to fight aeroplanes, drop bombs descreetley and for scouting. Also, you keep saying sticky boots and I think you mean sticky beaks.

  276. Actually, M@X, both Sticky boots and sticky beaks are used in LBG. Eh, true, and would there be room inside the shell for expansion due to more hydrogen? Otherwise you’d always have to be extra super precise on your weight. It is a great idea, though, and I’m only being critical of it to make it better and get more details.

  279. Yes, their is room for extra hydrogen, upto fifty percent more, and the shell is made from the same thing as fingernails, so it is actually quite light. Since these are usually used for short periods of time, they are mainly controlled by the ballast to avoid venting hydrogen and increasing flammability.

  282. @ 279- That’s keratin, you dummkopf! I’m not even a Darwinist and I know what it’s called.

  283. Nice, Ronnie.
    M@X, that is a good plan, and they will definitely be at least referenced, more likely seen in action, in my fanfic. Don’t worry, I’ll give you credit. Don’t sue me!

  284. I forgot to say what it was called, but I did know what it was. The cuticle is part of the fingernail, not what it is made of.

  285. @ 283- whenever I read the word “sue” I pronounce it like the girl with the funny voice off of Singin’ in the Rain. The blonde movie star girl. I forgot her name. It sounds like “seeyuuu”. It’s barking hilarious!

  289. *looks at fingernails which she has been chewing on viciously and then pulls a face of mild distaste* Old habits die hard, I guess. And I was doing so well! Barking spiders! All this talk of fingernails is making me nauseous.

  290. @ 289- Hair is also made of keratin. I bite my nails, too! I’m not allowed to let them grow long, away, because I wouldn’t be able to play the violin if I did.

  292. Horse hooves are also made of keratin.
    *sighs* I wish I could play the violin, but I play the tenor sax. Oh, yeah! To saxy for all you brass holes *chuckles* sorry, bad joke.

  298. Omg! Right at the bottom of the website page under the yellow ‘Westerfeld’ is a smiliie face *shoked!*
    Iv never noticed that before xD

  303. That HAHAHAHAHA!!! had a double meaning, of course. I was both laughing at my Iowan-humor joke and at the fact that I’ve had comments 100, 200, and now 300! All in one day!

  306. @ 298 & 302- I mentioned that on last week’s FAF.
    @ 303- that must be some sort of record for you.

  312. @308. Of course I want to go for 400, but not tonight. I have stuff to do in the morning, so I don’t want to stay up TOO late. It’s 9:30 here, so I’m giving myself until 10 at the latest. Probably.

  314. @311. Gasp! You got GROUNDED????? Tsk, tsk, Zaliz-la. Tsk, tsk. I’ve never been grounded, mostly because it would be a moot point, considering I live 20 minutes away from civilization and up until I found the Westerblog I wasn’t all that obsessed with the computer. Or I may just be a generally good child, but that’s stretching it a bit. 🙂

  315. I live in the Midwest, thank you very much. And I was born in California, actually, but I’m Iowan grown through and through, just like all our corn. 🙂

  319. That’s really cool 😀
    Iv never been outside of Cali :T
    Well besideds Mexico but I was a baby back then
    Haha wanna be my Iowa friend???(:

  322. @319. Sure I’ll be your Iowan friend. I already have Cali friends, though. They’re my cousins. *Laughs maniacally* Southern California, I assume then?

  326. I jave never been grounded either, but that is because I to live to far away from civilization for it to matter. GO IOWA!!!!

  330. @ 326 & 314- you’d think in Kentucky WE’D be the ones who’d live in the back country with chickens running around everywhere and building barns and shucking corn.

  332. Yes, we are good little Iowans. And one Kentuckian. And a Floridian. You haven’t met lauren/Levi yet, and she’s from waaaay northwest.
    Well, I’m hitting the hay, guys. Sorry that it’s only almost 8 for you, Zaliz, but like it’s been said it’s late where we all are. Be good and don’t get grounded, ‘kay?
    Night, everyone!

  334. Whoa whoa whoa. I have no chickens whatsoever! I haven’t ever built a barn, either, and I’ve only shucked corn a few times.
    Okay, now really goodnight.

  335. Haha it’s cool guys (:
    I’m just gunna chat with my bf and convince him to read Uglies and leviathan lol (:
    Nighty-nigh
    Have Clanker/Uglie/Darwin Dreams!!! 😀

  336. @ 334- I have never done any of those things ever in my life, yet we Kentuckians are still subjected to the false stereotypes that many incompetent people put upon us.
    Night, everyone! For real, this time.

  337. @335-Uglies first!!!!!!!!!!!!
    @334-I know right!!!! I live right on the outside of florida so I am near alabama!I’m like RIGHT on the boarder so yea…
    UGLIES LIVES

  339. I have helped repair a barn, help tear down several barnes and other buildings, and helped built a garage. I have shucked corn a few tomes and detassled. I have two dogs, four cats (used to have a lot more), and three rabbits, but no chickens. I live in a farm house, but we own no farm land. In short, I am not trom a city or town, but I am not a hillbilly or redneck either. I despise the Iowa stereotype.

  340. I used to live in Texas…have you heard of that stereotype talk about offensive I was at a summer camp with kids from all over the country and somebody asked me if I ride a cow to school

  341. I used to live in Texas…have you heard of that stereotype talk about offensive I was at a summer camp with kids from all over the country and somebody asked me if I ride a cow to school!!!!

  346. @345-on the right hand side is a contact Scott button you click it and import your fan art into the email then push send,piece of cake
    Hope this helped
    UGLIES LIVES

  358. Sadly, not even started. I kind of know what’s going to happen in it, but I haven’t had time to start. Technically I’m finishing my homework right now. (Working on assignment 7 of 7 for the weekend. Blech.)

  361. I know, I’m sorry about it. I was thinking that the turtle’s gun should be able to turn in every direction except straight up and they should be called Roth Battle Turtles or RBTs or just plain turtles after they are first seen.

  368. How do adds know who to target?!?! I just saw a add for a online creative writing course. I must say I was highly tempted.

  374. First of all, you are a Darwinist, right, and would be a midshipman? Please? I kind of molded a whole character, and it would be hard to change because you are quite influential to the plot.

  383. *DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANT A SPOILER! SPOILER ALERT!*
    Levi: And another kind of important thing is that you are my sister… don’t freak out, I’ll explain!!! We are Americans who became midshipmen (so, yes, american girls DO do that kind of thing. *hopes you think of Alek thinking of daring girls after watching The Perils of Pauline*) hidden as guys, Melissa and Lauren becoming Miles and Levi. Miles got left behind on the Leviathan when Levi and Newkirk and another midshipman and Mr.Rigby went on a mission to reconnoiter a hidden Clanker base, and then they got caught. Newkirk was told to run by Rigby, and the Clankers killed everyone but Levi because she was a girl and it was against their moral standards and a girl would make a better prisoner to use for leverage, and to ridicule the British Air Service for having a girl serving. You aren’t supposed to know anyone survived, and Miles doesn’t either (provokes sad conversations w/ Deryn because of certain events that I shall not reveal). But your character is kept prisoner and is really spunky (probably spits in a few faces) but despite herself makes a grudging friendship with Rachel, a Clanker engineer who I explained in comment #200.
    So, to sum up my longest comment ever, do you think it’ll work?

  385. OH! MY! LORDY-LORD! THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE BEST BOOK EVER! Btw if it seems (later) like I don’t know what is going on when others comment on it and stuff, it is because I want to read it all at one time rather that reading it chapter by chapter.

  387. Ach, you and Sorley both. But it’s really going to take a long time to write. I only have so much done because of winter break. Now that school’s back in, I won’t have near as much time to write, even though I do in class when I’m not taking notes… I really want you guys to read it as I go, though, so you can give me feedback on what to fix and possibly help with what happens next. BUt I guess if you want to wait, it’s okay. 🙁

  388. I just got a add for a online bachelors degree in game design. Shows how much they know. I would NEVER want to major on “game design”. Even though I know that involves drawing fantastical worlds and using fancy computer equipment to make game characters. I don’t like drawing. That much.

  389. @387- Hmm… I guess when you publish this I DO want to be in the acknowledgments…. Oh, what the heck, I’ll read it!

  392. Nice, nice. I just read chapter five and I love your style, but I do believe you could do with some hard-core editing. Note I said editing. No revising is needed (in my opinion) just some small tweaks.

  393. @391- I know, right? I tried pre-writing a story once and I never got around to actually writing it. I prefer the pre-thinking about for the next chapter and then just seeing where the story goes.

  400. Okay, everyone, I’m back! I was upstairs plotting with my little bro. Currently outlining the plot, and he’s my unofficial consultant so I consulted him on some pretty major changes.
    @389. Unfortunately, it would be very extra super illegal to publish it without explicit permission from the man himself. *sniffles* and he can’t really read it for reasons stated in comment 134.

  404. Hey MM, thanks for liking my turtle idea, I was pretty sure it would fall flat. I know what you mean about stories being hard to write, I’ ve been working on one for a few months now.

  408. Hello Levi. I’ll be back in a minute, our family’s computer opened up and it is way better then an Ipod for this sort of thing.

  410. @404. Actually, your turtle idea is going to play a substantial part in it. It’s hard to believe I started my fanfic just over a month ago.
    @405. Total absolute illegal copyright infringement. You can’t make money off of it, I think the deal it.
    @407. Yes, yes they are. Yours are about the length of the Maximum Ride chapters, and mine are in-between that and Scott’s chapter lengths.
    @403. Mua. ha. ha.

  411. This is better. Anyway, it’s nice to meet you Levi, You are really lucky to have a major part in her fanfic, I’m just going to be a rigger. My only other claim to fame in the book is that I thought up a fabricated beast idea that she is thinking about using.

  414. Your laugh seems a little insane MM. I was wondering if I could pilot or be the gunner of one of the turtles instead of a rigger? I think that would be awsome!!!!

  419. Hm… that could happen, M@X. Or you could do both, since it’s an experimental beastie and they wouldn’t want to waste the weight of an extra man. Yes, my laugh is very insane. Especially my smug I’ve-had-100-200-300-and-now-400-so-there-Rachel/Ronnie laugh.
    And you won’t necessarily be minor. You’ll probably be like a Hoffman or a Bauer.

  420. @417- It’s about some weird Seattle in which there is poisonous gasses all over which turns people into these weird zombies. I haven’t read it yet, but it is soppsed to be steampunk…

  421. I am trying to get some people at my school to read LBG, but they just don’t want to. They are like this with every book I suggest, even though they usually end up liking said book. Since several are girls, is their anything you two can think of that I have not that might convince them to read the books so I can discuss them with said people? No offense, I just want someone I can discuss face to face with about the BEST SERIES EVER!

  425. @421- Well, I just lent LBG to my friend and cackled/cried (in a REALLY insane way) all through lunch until she read it. So I won’t be much help.

  427. @ 419- I would love to do both and be a Haufmann/ Bauer type character!!!
    @ 420- The book sounds a little like “The Supernaturalist”, which is an awsome book. Only “The Supernaturalist” is set in the future.

  431. @421. I know how you feel, man. I am currently trying to get a guy to read them, and he can’t get it through his barking daft head how awesome they are. Well, just tell them that Deryn is just about the most BA, spunkiest girl you’d ever meet (appeal to their sense of girl power), and that Alek is hot (to appeal to the general enjoyment of hot guys.) Also make constant references in their presence, and then make them want to read it so they know what you’re talking about by saying, “You wouldn’t understand; It’s a Leviathan thing.”

  432. @431- You give MUCH better advice than me. Probably because you actually have a social life. Mine sucks (because I am home schooled).

  433. @ 429- Yeah, “The Supernaturalist” is set in a really bad version of the future, what are those called again? Anyway, the oceans are so badly polluted it’s literally like bleach, and dolphins are extinct, and almost no one knows how to drive, and orphans are used as guinie pigs for experimental drugs, and it’s just not good.

  435. @ 431- I’ll try suggestion one and three, but I don’t think I could say number two without sounding gay.

  438. @ 436- Thanks, I can never remember the name dystopian. Yeah, its a pretty sad future, but an awsome book.

  439. The only bad thing about “The Supernaturalist” is that it has been several years, but the author still has gotten much done on the sequel that has to be written because of the last chapter in the book.

  443. @ 440- What do you find hard to believe? That I can never rememeber the name dystopian, or that the book is good.

  445. @435. You could say that according to thriving fangirl base he is. And it’s okay to admit when a guy’s hot when you’re a guy. It makes it more monumental. And gay is okay to me, anyways.

  447. I have never read Artemis Fowl either, the only book I’ve read that was written by her is “The Supernaturalist”.

  449. @445- My skating teacher is gay. He’s such a good skater he was on a skating TV competition. He’s also a REALLY funny guy. Gay’s okay. In a demented, godless way.

  450. @ 446- I enjoy several dystopian series/novels. The Hunger Games and The Supernaturalist are my favorite.

  453. @ 448- I have read all the Mortal Instrument books published so far, but haven’t gotten a chance to read “The Clockwork Prince”. How is it?

  454. @451. Really? The Hunger Games was almost equal in intensity of my obsession as Leviathan, just didn’t last as long.
    @450. Have you read Uglies? That’s dystopian.

  456. @454- Like I said, I don’t really like dystopian novels. I like the concepts and the characters, I just find the details to be tedious.

  457. @449. I have a really good friend who’s gay. Two, actually. One’s in the local theater group with me (super, extra smart and funny guy.) and the other is a senior at my high school, also in theater. And I have a gay aunt, but I don’t like her for other reasons.

  459. @ 454- I have indeed read Uglies, but it is a little to girlie for my taste. It’s good, just not good enough to make my all time favorites. No offense meant Mr. Westerfeld.

    The hunger games movie come out a few days before my birthday, it will be playing in theaters starting on March 23.

  464. @ 460- As a Christian I don’t find it right, but I refuse to get into that as I already have enough enemies.

  471. @466- That’s pretty awsome. Believe it or not, my dad and grandpa have birthdays in March as well and I have a friend born a few hours before me on the same day.

  472. You know what? To allow for more writing time (for all of us) I think we should hold these only on some days. I personally want to hear for fanfic from Lissa.

  474. @ 472- My book is really bad, it’s not even steampunk, so thank you for not wanting to hear any of my crap. I don’t have a blog anyway. It would be nice to have some more writing time though.

  480. @ 475- I am from Iowa, which is why I tend to close by saying “Bye/Night! GO TEAM IOWA”. I’m not being sarcastic, just explaining myself.

  481. @475. Ooh, ooh, I know this one! He’s from Muscatine, Iowa! 🙂 creepy how I know these things, en’t it? It’s my creepy old granny magical powers at work.

  483. @ 479- I am really embarrassed by it, so I’m sorry. I don’t even have a way to show it to you anyway.

  485. @472. Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. I think weekends should stay free-for-all, but maybe once or twice through the week that we make an effort to get on, and if it’s convenient otherwise.

  490. I’m getting told I have to go to bed now. 🙁 Darn school nights. I probably can’t come tomorrow ’cause I’ve got plans, but I should probably be on any other night. Bye, everyone! GO TEAM IOWA!!!

  492. @ 484- It’s about an hour away, yeah.
    @ 486- Because I am very conciences of my work and hate taking myself out of my bubble. I have no idea how to make a blog.

  493. Bye. Also “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars. And “Poison and Wine” by The Civil Wars. I particularly recommend the last one.

  495. Well, I have to go to bed. I’ll look up those songs though. It’s to bad MM is going to miss 500. I got 1000 once.

    Night, GO TEAM IOWA.

  496. @492- Well, just keep in mind we only criticize (kindly) to make it better. We would never want to hurt you. And to make a blog just go to blogspot.com and click “Get Started” it’s really quite simple.

  498. @494- Because I LOVE skiing and I went yesterday and I only got to ski for two hours.

    And, probably because Hedley is a Canadian band and therefor not very popular in Iowa.

  501. Bye now. Canada rules. (I am taking a leaf out of max’s book) GO CANUKS!!! YOU CAN WIN THIS YEAR (they can’t really win this year)!!!!

  503. listening to your interview and i just heard the bit where you said “teenagers spend their time thinking about extreme circumstances, they wonder about the fragility of life, and their obsessed with mortality.” ahah you are so right in every way!! you really understand your audience.

  512. @446-OMGEEBZ HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT UGLIES IS THE ICYIEST BOOK IN THE WORLD AND THE REST OF THE SERIES

  514. Hahaha. I’m on here during school. Take that!
    Of course seedless watermelons are godless. You can’t spit the seeds at your brother because there aren’t any. 😀

  518. These are so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s up homies????I’m at school and sooooo bored!!!! I need something to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  519. wait just copied and pasted a comment of mine……….that “these are so funny” isn’t supposed to be there….*laughs at self while people stare*

  522. I don’t know what Scott-la series to read after midnighters any sugggestions? <————-any body notice there are 3 g's?????

  527. Ok, Sophie (can I call you Sofie?) first MM interviewed me on my character Levi. Then I asked about the book “Boneshaker”. Then M@X asked how to get kids to read LBG to which MM responded by e=telling him to tell them that a) Deryn is SUPER BA and b) Alek is hot and something else that I forgot. Then M@X said he couldn’t say the hot Alek thing without sounding gay. This sparked a discussion about gayness. Then we talked about dystopian novels which (don’t ask) made us begin talking about various people we knows birthdays and hoe they are alike. Then M@X said he had some writing but said we wouldn’t want to see it. I told him we DO want to hear it. He said he didn’t have a blog so he couldn’t show us even if he wanted to. Then everybody left. That pretty much sums up the whole conversation. Get it?

  531. I feel sorry for you all, my school gives us the next weekday after end of quarter off for teacher meetings.

  532. @M@X- Well, I feel sorry for all of YOU. I only have to go to school for a day and a half a week! Which is, despite how much you all “hate school”, both a burden AND a blessing.

  533. Arg. I can’t think of anything to write. Do you know what I strongly dislike about my mom? She always id like “keep writing!” and I know I should and she is trying to be helpful and everything, the only problem is that I get writers block when I am pushed! That’s what I hate about school. They (usually) never let you do things at your pace. That’s what I liked about my 5th grade teacher. She never said we HAD to do anything. She just calmly said “Only if you want credit for it” And the only thing we really had a hard and fast due date on was math. The other due dates she always negotiated with the whole class. Ah, memories.

  541. @ 435- Well, technically M@XINE, you are a crossdresser, so you could TOTALLY say that you think Alek’s hot. Whether you are a guy, or not, you know it’s true.

  543. What I appreciated most about the interview was, not the overview of Goliath, but what lays underneath it. The Leviathan trilogy is more than just man vs. man conflict, it’s also man vs. his inner self. It’s more than the beasties and the machines and more than being the Chosen One or blether like that. Really, it’s about overcoming impossible circumstances against impossible odds. To me, it’s about growing up, about being a teenager.

    Because, really, that’s a war by itself.

  548. @545- Then, by that logic, we would be speaking to the ghost of the archduchess of the now non-existent Austro-Hungarian empire. And somehow, I don’t think that Sofie is…well, that.

  550. And, btw, did you know that Alek (according to the book) didn’t even grow up in what is now Austria! He grew up in what is now the Czech Republic!

  553. @ 550 – umm, yeah? Didn’t you?
    @ 552- She ISN’T dead! She ran off with her husband to Cocoa Beach and are living under the names of Mr. And Mrs. Gobbles.

  555. @553- Well, of course I knew, how else would I tell you!? And, fyi, I only read L once and not that carefully so if they wrote it in there that’s why I didn’t know it. And if that was true the very Sofie we are talking to would not be a teenager but a 100 year old fugitive princess of a non-existent country. If that doesn’t sound odd you keep reading it until it does.

  559. Those interviewers SUCK! I am, in my obsessive Westerfreakness, highly insulted. Ann, I don’t mean to contradict you Mr. Westerfeld, but I actually read it BECAUSE it was about WWI. Admittedly the librarian (you would think she would actually KNOW about the book she is recommending) told me it was about WWII which I know far more about owing to the fact I am obsessed with it. But I found that LBG was not ignition to my fascination of the WW’s but, rather, fuel. If you get my drift.

  561. @560- Okay, I am going to explain this slowly for you ‘k? I *points to self* already knew *points to head* about the WW’s *mimes shooting a gun* before *indicates in front of self* reading *mimes reading* LBG *points at Behemoth*

  565. @ 561- oh okay. Me understand.
    It sounded like you were making a Clanker reference at the end, so that’s why I was confused.

  567. @565- Maybe I was 😉 (unintentionally) And sorry, that was rude of me. I have a bad habit of acting like everyone around me is stupid. You’d think that having to click “Submit” before I say anything would put a stop to that. Unfortunately it is not such.

  568. @566- Fabulous. We here— i am sorry for the interruption, “Hot Mess” RULES!!! I know I have said that multiple times I just love it SO MUCH!—at Westerfreak central encourage that sort of behavior.

  573. @572- See! Now I”M the stupid one. But you can really expect me to know anything about the middle of the U-nite-edd Sttt-ates of AM-er-eek-aa. I only know about states on the west coast or bordering Canada.

  574. I am getting the drift you are being very icy towards me at the moment. Is there anything I can do to warm you up to me? Maybe a nice cup of cocoa? A hot blow dryer?

  575. PEPPERMINT HOT CHOCOLATE! Yes, and I do appear to be needing another hair dryer for my hair dryer collection…
    And, it’s totally okay because I forgot you live in Canada.

  576. So everything is cool now, or warm, I suppose. If one were to be technical. Which I frequently am.

  577. @575- Okay. I am going to try and not say this the way I usually would because I see that little joke warmed you right up. Technically I was brought up in Canada. But I really should know about the rest of the US as I do, in fact, live on the Canadian border. In America. And please don’t take that the wrong way because I am trying to say this in the most humble way I know how without italics.

    I wish hair dryers worked for me. That would considerably lengthen my sleeping pattern. You see, my hair is so thick that all I really do is waste time by standing in front of the mirror for 45 minutes. Drying my hair.

  579. @ 557- me too! It takes me two hours to straighten my hair! And it’s just a little bit past my shoulders! It’s barking hard work, being a girl, isn’t it?
    So you move back and forth between the US and Canada?

  582. Ah, well. It appears that I am alone again. If Sophie still is here…. * calls out * SOPHIE??????????? WHERE ART THOU SOPHIE???????????????

  590. I have decided that since you keep changeing your name, I will call you
    Ninny R from now on.

    I’m just sitting here watching TV snd writing on the blog.

  592. Yeah, but I hate having to keep changing what I write.

    Now I am also working on my book, which is why I might not respond right away.

  595. You’re incorporating me into your book? Really? Wow! I feel so special because I’m in two fanfics! Thank you!

  596. Hullo, Westerworld! It turns out I don’t have plans tonight, as they were interrupted by homework, and now that I’m done with that I’m free-ish. I should be practicing my tenor sax right now…
    @543. That was really, actually, truly deep of you, Rachel. Can I keep it as an inspirational quote?
    @559. Yes, I caught your drift, and it smells. Bad.

  606. Because you said that you don’t want to change what you write?
    Oh well. My mistake for misunderstanding. Sorry about that.
    🙂

  616. UGLIES LIVES WHO HERE HAS READ IT I NEED A UGLIES FAN TO CONVERSE WITH I STILL LOVE Y’ALL BUT I HAVEN’T TALKED BUBBLETALK IN A FEW DAYS NOW AND IT’S KILLING ME

  617. Tell my sister to stop reading her English book “The 7 habits of Highly Effective Teens” out loud to me. It is soooo stupid! I don’t care if Woof the dog is relieving himself on a recently painted fence because he doesn’t have a conscience!

  619. @615. My head was exploding because of Megan reading the dumb book out loud to me. Self help books are completely unrealistic. What teen thinks, “Wow, breaking up with my boyfriend Erik is causing me to take out my anger on my mom.”? I mean, come on!

  620. @ 616- go to the Uglies manga page. Maybe someone will talk to you there… sorry that how I haven’t read it.
    @ 617- what in the barking world does that have to do with teenagers?!

  622. @619-sadly nobody comments on there anymore 🙁 because he is posting panels every week

  623. @620. Well, Rosa was walking her dog, and had a conscience about something, and then it states that Woof doesn’t have a conscience because he’s a dog, so he has no problem peeing on a brand new fence. With wet paint. And then after Rosa’s reflection about her boyfriend, it says that since Woof is a dog he can’t reflect on himself so he doesn’t think “Gee, after that collie down the block moved away I’ve been taking out my distress over it on the neighborhood cats.”
    *facetwitch* remind me to never ever read that book. Even when I have to because I’m in that class.

  627. How were y’all posting all day?? Don’t you have school? I mean I post on my phone so I can check it between classes and stuff…

  629. @ 625- I haven’t read Uglies, so I can’t say the same, but LBG is the best trilogy I have ever read. It’s better than the HG.

  631. @ 626- Unfortunatley, Iowa’s public school is crap. I used to go to a private school and when I graduated it and was forced to join public schooling I was almost two grades ahead of everyone else in all core classes.

  638. @627. My school has laptops and I was in studyhall.
    @629. Definitely. No contest. And not only because so fewer people died, but that certainly helps.
    @628. Oh, clart, it’s been over a year since I read them. Almost two. But I think Specials was my favorite, if not Extras.

  645. @631. Yeah. I agree with that statement. I’ve always gone to public school, but I’m top of my class. By far. I’m grade levels above in math (Freshman taking Algebra 2), obviously I’m fine with language arts (The writing, you know) and Advanced Physical Science is so easy I’ve taught the teacher stuff.
    Not to brag or anything.

  646. @642-of course we are but that will change if anything bad is said about my UGLIES series Scott-la of you are reading this your welcome read my emails they are very helpful I’m reading mind-rain!!

  648. @ 645- no, that’s awesome! It just shows that the people read are the people who learn with speed! Okay, I know, lame joke. Sorry. 😉

  649. Sorry for saying this just trying to prove a point:
    LEVIATHIAN is OVER
    UGLIES L-I-V-E-S
    Sorry I had to say that but it’s true

  656. @653-thought that’s what you meant….
    UGLIES LIVES
    *smiles in the way specials do with pointed teeth bared but I don’t have pointed teeth so deal with it*

  658. I am sorry S-la, but that is the stupidest thing I have ever read on this post, Leviathan is not dead and if you say it again I will let loose the flood of unhappiness I am working very hard to keep back with a dam of calmness and patience.

  659. Ronnie if you read UGLIES you would get would I mean,how EXTRA
    SPECIAL it is how PRETTY awesome it is

  661. @649. Sophie, just for that you are now an antagonist in my fanfic that noone is going to like. Ha. So there. See, Leviathan is still alive and it don’t like you.

  666. Scott-la do you see what you have done? You are such a good writer we are fighting on YOUR blog about YOUR books

  667. *shuns Sorley* So, Ronnie, about wanting to know what happens next in my fanfic, I kind of have barely started chapter 11, so it could be a while. And there is no way you will ever get me to post the plot chart, that would just be a bad move. It reveals all of the carefully planned secrets and gasp-worthy twists, and honestly why would I deprive you of only finding out when you read the actual thing? That would be plain mean.

  670. And Max, I will tell you that your RABTs actually play a very influential part in my fanfic. Thanks for coming up with them. But they need a real name, kind of like a tigeresque, for the lady boffin to call them because she helped fabricate them.

  677. @675-I’m talking about with the titles,UGLIES PRETTIES SPECIALS AND EXTRAS have bubblehead/specialhead slag too!

  678. But with Uglies can you giggle during history class when they talk about WWI? Or replace very bad words with things like “barking” and “clart” and “bumrag” and “ninny or dummkopf”? Hmm? Didn’t think so.
    Face it, Sorley, you are desperately outnumbered.

  685. @676. Sounds good.
    @677. I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure being pretty extra special ugly is necessarily a good thing… I’d rather be dead brilliant, if you know what I mean. It’s shorter and implies a great amount of intelligence, not just something as shallow as ugliness.

  687. Everyone, ignore S-la. It is pointless to argue with her because she is an idiot when it comes to Uglies vs. LBG, and my watch word is “Never argue with morons, its a waste of time and energy”. I’m sorry S-la, but the dam sprang a leak.

  688. @ 681- umm, go to youTube and type in “Flying High.” Be amazed that Leviathaneers have a song AND it’s not a remix of a regular song! It’s original!

  689. @685-in The Tally-wa Youngblood world being ugly isn’t bad it’s when TALLY STARTED TO CHANGE THE WORLD WITH SHAY-LA AND DAVID

  690. @ S-la- WE DON’T LIVE IN THE UGLIES WORLD, SO GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  691. @681. How about *to the tune of Frosty the Snowman* Bovril the loris, was a perspicacious chump. With his big brown eyes and his mouse like nose and his soft round furry rump…” it goes on. We have lots of Leviathan Christmas Carols.

  693. @ 691- AHHHH! I READ THAT ONE TOO! My favorite was the one on the Ukrainian Bell Song about Deryn.

  695. @ Ninny R- You really shouldn’t, I have only lost three arguments and two were due to a biased audience and the third was because it was three on one. That is not counting my many lost arguments against my parents and unconcluded ones against idiots prior to the adoption of my watch word.

  696. I have a good name for the parody book of leviathian like twilights in nightlight yea I have a good one (scott-la you Rick but I’m defending my
    UGLIES series)

  699. Okay S-la, let me lay this out for you. Leviathan is set in alternate universe, which could be over, going on now, or yet to come. Uglies is set in a possible future that might or might not come into being.

  704. @693. I think that Bovril the Loris was my favorite. DId you see the most recent one of Newkirk, Volger, and Eddie Malone? It’s terrible *sniffles* I can’t say way.

  706. Haha it’s a good name don’t get me wrong LEVIATHAIN in good but nothing compared to UGLIES PRETTIES SPECIALS and EXTRAS

  713. Wow, number seven hundred! It’s not like any of us has gotten anything really impressive, like, say, 1000. Oh, wait one of has, but who was it? Oh, right, it was me!

  717. @709-I have a good parody name for leviathian (once more Scott-la I am terribly sorry but as I said I am only defending Tally-wa and Shay-la etc…)

  729. @ S-la- Ok, I am going to put my watchword to work now and end the argument without a winner or loser or a tie.

  735. @ 732- WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!¡!!!!!!

  747. @742-God no she in’t if anybody Tally-wa is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  761. YES SOPHIE-LA HAS WON THE UGLIES-LEVIAITHAN FIGHT (sorry scott-la I felt I had to do that, it wuz a good book, but I love uglies better!!Terribly sorry,if you were to email me back we could talk about this…..)

  763. if I am alone I can have a one-sided convo about whay TH EUGLIES SERIES IS THE ICIEST/BUBBLYIEST SERIES EVA

  767. If you feel that you’ve won, it shows your maturity level.
    I’m probably never coming back. Not today, or tomorrow.
    Good bye.

  769. I forgot, Good night. GO TEAM IOWA!!

    P.S.- You have not won, I just know that the argument will never end and therefore do not wish to get into it. In reality, I would win because I made the better arguments while you are just running on stupidity and bull headedness.

  772. @ 763- then don’t be on this comment section, because I don’t want to read that crap when I check the posts to see if my Levia-buddies come back.

  784. Not of YOU. Of the oppurtunity you have! With the books! And yet you decide to argue with us while you are the ones who get the mangas and the movies! Just stop. Be happy with what you’ve got. Okay? Just because Uglies has movies and mangas made doesn’t mean that it’s better than Leviathan. Uglies has been out for what, 6 years? Just wait til Leviathan is out for 6 years.
    It’ll have twice the popularity.

  785. @ 783- You’re right. You’re absolutely right. Fighting over our opinions is absolutely childish. I’m sorry, and I don’t want you to think less of me or M@X or Miles.

  788. And 784 is all us Leviathaneers ask. Okay, so I didn’t want to leave this unresolved, so I believe we have come to a compromise. So good bye

  789. Okay,goobye,but how do you think I feel I’m alone right now,it’s like all of your friends love uglies while you love leviathian…

  790. You see that’s the thing 6 years later where have those fans gone? What about the people who recently discovered it? They are alone like I am

  791. That’s how I feel just looking or some fellow Scott-la fans to chill with. That’s the only reason I read the LBG books was to understand y’all while I’m still
    Alone,uglies fans aren’t here right now once the manga comes out they will be back when the movie comes out there will be more just like there will when it is leviathians time to shine but right now uglies is making a comeback

  794. I’m sorry if I hurt your feeling anybody but now that you have heard my story you see why I want friends if that’s not enough then there is nothing I can do

  796. I don’t know if I am gonna comeback,maybe if I can find people on the uglies posts I will stay there cause it doesn’t seem I am wanted here so goodbye for now,hope to chat with y’all again,if not I’m really sorry

  802. If ronnie doesnt come back um well i guess its my faultbtw im on my nook so sorry for the spelling and grammer goodbye for now

  805. Dear Sorley,
    Thank you for apologizing. There are no hard feelings as long as you admit that the two are at least equal, and excel over the other in their own ways. I fully admit that Uglies has some wonderful parts to it and I loved it when I read it, but I must also state that in my personal opinion Leviathan is better. I’m not going to try to push my opinion on you, so don’t push yours on me. We are all different people entitled to our own opinions, so let’s keep it that way.
    Sincerely,
    Midshipman Miles Molloy

  807. @806-isnt it considering peole have toldl me to find people of my own kind and that I shoulnd’t be on these comments…

  811. @ 796- No! Don’t leave! We are still friends! But I haven’t read Uglies so I won’t be able to sing your ICEY song with you, so I’m probably not of much help.

  812. @ 802- YOU HAVE A NOOK????????????? Isn’t it fun??????????????? I don’t have a nook, but Joceyln has one, and he says it’s cool. I saw it. It IS cool. But not HOT. Like the Kindle Fire.

  813. @ 807- I didn’t mean it like THAT, like “Oh, you’re not allowed to be here because you aren’t obsessed about Leviathan and we don’t like you,” that would be harsh. What I meant was that because I haven’t read Uglies, I can’t express the same sentiments as you, so I thought I wouldn’t be able to “hang out” here with you because we don’t really have anything in common. But, we do. We both like to COMMENT! Seriously, you and I have probably commented the most here. Let’s talk about that, shall we?

  827. Hullo! I’m here, though I should be doing all of my barking difficult homework. Not even the hard kind of difficult, just the “it’s difficult to stay on task because it’s so tedious” kind. See, I’m not on task right now because I’m commenting.

  828. I for one find it hard to concentrate on HW…….I honestly don’t see the need for it

  829. Me either. I think I heard somewhere that it only helps one in ten students more fully understand a subject. And mine tonight is as tedious as it gets. I have to basically re-read the chapter in History because I was out for so long with my wisdom teeth and I have a test tomorrow, read a big fat lab packet for APS, and fill out a study guide for Advanced Language Arts. Not to mention practicing my saxophone. *groans*

  831. Your day off? Oh, clart. I just remembered that I left my tenor at school. I am so going to epically fail in my lesson on friday. I have not practiced my lesson music since my last lesson before winter break, so by now I SHOULD be like a pro at it, but obviously I’m not. I am such a bad person. Shame, Melissa, shame. *headdesk* I’m sorry, Mr. Leeper! Don’t fail me, I like straight As way too much! *double headdesk and facepalm*

  832. That is freaky!! I have a lesson Friday too!!!! And I was supposed to learn this song…..I think you can finish the puzzle

  833. it’s such a pain to carry my viola home, my teacher allows 1 day off so I chose Tuesday, Tuesdays don’t like me

  835. wait I was re-reading the earlier comments and saw that my apologly didn’t show up……SO this goes right before the ‘how’s that?”:
    UGLIES and LEVIATHIAN are equal, but I respect your opinion, my opinion is that UGLIES is better, the LEVIATHIAN series was great at times but it just wasn’t the books I will love forever…

  836. @834-key part of the word “ish” yes they can be small or big but its the case,all of my friends have a cloth/something else case. I hav this big honkin’ part metal/2 other things that i don’t know what they are,but whatever they are it makes the case heavy which is why I dislike my case with passion 🙂 <——— eyebrows

  837. exuse my error on comment 836 “hav” is supposed to be”have” darn texting*looks shamefully down at phone*

  838. I’m sorry, but all of your complaints are lost on my family. Scott plays trombone, Megan French horn and trumpet, and I the tenor sax, so unless a viola is a totally different instrument than I thought and is actually bigger than those instruments, you do not have my pity.
    Hey, Scott-la made a new post for “All you Uglies guys” on manga reveal voting. Go, and be free, Sorley. Fly with your own kind.

  849. I don’t like stereotypes in general, and I like to believe that they don’t apply to most people, even though others seem to glue them right on to you. It makes me extra mad when people do live up to stereotypes, though, because of all the people working so hard to break them.

  850. @849-I totally agree,okay so I live in the south, I may have a little bit of an accent doen’t mean I go around barefoot,riding cows, and shucking corn I bet you thats what somebody thinks who lives up in the north

  853. here it is: So a girl moved to my town from Washington and she heard my SLIGHT and I use that word strongly my slight accent, and that me and my friends use the word ain’t and she was like “I have only been In Texas for a day now and it is exactly like I thought it would be” Then I said “Like what” and she said “so, countryish” (remember this is when I used to live in Texas)in my mind I was like “we live in the suburbs we are so close to the city! How on Earth is this countryish???”

  857. But she was so shocked to find out we don’t ride cows,we don’t walk around barefoot,and that we actually do use the world “ain’t”

  860. the computer told me I am posting to quickly and to slow down suprisingly thats only the 2nd time that has happened

  867. GRR I keep making typing errors!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    IM just gonna redo the entire last comment
    @865-hehe

  878. @ Middy Miles-turns out I wasn’t finished with my HW I had to make a science vocab sheet ugh what fun

  881. Although I do find one annoying thing is that when people hear that you read YA they automatically think you read about vampires and cutting yourself and committing suside and stuff like that. Then they look at you funny and start talking quietly with your parents.

  885. @ 831 and 832- I have violin lessons on Wednesdays! In February, I’m going to audition to get into a music high school.

  889. Do I have to be alone? * sobs * if only Newkirk were here! You know, as the Beibs-master says: I’d be one less lonely girl.

  891. Eh, I might as well shoot for 900, because I’m the only one who decided to show up! Okay, so I will have a one sided conversation about my favorite books. 1. Leviathan- Idon’t need to explain myself.

  892. 2. The Book Thief. WWII era, about a German girl who gets sent into foster care after she’s taken away from her Communist parents. She has nightmares about watching her brother die on the train, so her Papa comes and reads to her out of a book she found in the snow when her brother was buried. THE GRAVE DIGGER’S HANDBOOK. After her father begins to read to her, she becomes aware of her love for words. Every oppurtunity she has, she gets more books. From the mayor’s library, or NAZI book burnings. Her and her best friend Rudy go on thieving adventures. Their relationship can be summed up with the words “schwinne” “saurkerl” and “arschloscher”. All German profanity. Except for the boy’s need for The Book Thief’s kiss. Liesel’s life changes when Papa and Mama hide a Jew in their basement. His name is Max, and he is a Jewish distributed, with hair like feathers. But this is not your average story. The narrator is not Liesel, nor her foster parents, not even Rudy or Max. But DEATH. nAd he has been busy during WWII. He describes the world, the Book Thief’s life in colors. Becauseeven the bleakest of things are beautiful when seen through colors. But the most powerful lesson to be learned from this book, is the most powerful persuasive force in the world. Words.

  927. Well…. *taking deep breath* *very fast* I liked the history AND romance in “The Young Victoria” which delves into the late Queen Victoria’s messed up life. I also really like “Hugo” I found the book to be tedious but the movie ROCKED! My favorite animated movie is “Despicable Me” which investigates a HILARIOUS villains demented life. *finishing* In conclusion I really like movies about people who’s life SUCK but then get better. I rule, fyi.

  947. It means, Maggie, that you never leave! you just stay in your little farm or whatever and never get cultured! And I don’t mean like yogurt!

  949. *glaring* I mean, dummkopf, that you valleyers never get to go to France. Or Switzerland. Or, even, Canada! Jen is the only valley kid I know who has been out of the state!

  953. *dissapoited* Auhh. You’re so much fun! Do you know what song I like? I’ll tell you. “Hot Mess” by Hedley. It has some bad words in it though. Goodbye!

  960. That was a typical conversation between my friend Maggie and me. At the first part it was sort of me and me but then my inner self became Maggie.

  1002. @1000-Grr I was trying to get that!!! I was 1 comment to late!!!!! I thought all y’all left so I was out for the night…

  1003. @Levi-I read your convo with Maggie,nice I was laughing the whole time while people laughed at me for laughing at you……point is,it’s funny

  1005. I hate how you can’t repeat comments,the thingy always says”oops it seems your have already said that!” Grr that Bugs me!!!!

  1011. Hum I am @ school people are asking me what I’m doing…result:they think I’m a HUGE book nerd,it’s true that’s my rep. At school listen to this kids at school: IMA BOOK NERD AND IM PROUD OF IT
    (mostly a Scott-la book nerd)

  1021. My friend is sitting next to me very quickly trying to finish a project that was due 2 days ago

  1025. sadly in math I sit smack in the front so it is impossible to do anything but learn,don’t get me wrong I am good at math but like English a heck of a lot better

  1026. I will b eable to post throughout the day on my nook,NNNOOOO that was the bell, ok i will post on my nook

  1039. And, might I add –“Hot Mess” rules! I don’t know why I always say that; I don’t even like it THAT much! I just can’t help myself.- quite annoying at times.

  1046. @M@X I have a solution to your little no blog to post writing on. Book country. It is this book penguin thingy where you can post books and people review on self assigned criteria! I am Deryn Sharp.

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  1062. @1056-Which UGLIES book is your fav????remember I use all caps for emphasis and generally all book titles

  1068. @simply Ronnie. NICE JOB STEALING 1000!!! I got on here in school and I was like “Barking spiders, there’s over a thousand comments!!!” ANd then I saw what Levi was doing, so I scrolled to 1000 and it said “simply Ronnie” and I laughed. Out load.

  1073. @1071- I don’t really read during class. Mostly me and my friend prank car dealers in they’re live chat thingy. My friend once put “china McClain” and I was like “Really Ruby? China McClain?!” (we both have little sisters in love with Disney channel.)

  1084. And by the way you (probably) used the word “epic” in the wrong way. The word epic refers to a poem which includes action, adventure, romance, suspense and overall intriguing things. No the uglies series.

  1085. @Levi
    I know what it means I was referring to the slag term I use locally
    And Uglies does have all that it’s just not a poem
    And iv read LBG three Times over (: goin on the forth time haha

  1090. @Zaliz- I don’t know why I said “‘S’okay”? and I can be icy and then suddenly bubbly. Ask Ronnie. I have violent mood swings. Sorry about that.

  1096. Hey Zaliz, you need a cross dresser name. Hmm this is a tough one. You should be Dallas. It is Scottish (just like Deryn!) and means from the meadow dwelling. Keep in mind we don’t give cross dresser names to just anyone!

  1108. @ 1068- I did it for you, Miles.
    Because scrolling through all those Lauren comments got on my nerves.

  1109. @ 1107- let me say this politely. I. Don’t. Care. Don’t post where you are. That’s disturbing.

  1111. this is my friend we are in class and she wants to post something so:
    I luv the Uglies series. Sophie is a beast! Do you guys believe me?

  1113. That was me who posted 1111!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, so we are in class and we are learning about George Washington. REALLY BORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1120. @1116- Boredom. And btw. we don’t need to hear that you are in SS, if you are doing something bubbly in SS then I care. Otherwise, no thanks

  1125. I can’t wait for chapter 11/12 (which one are we on now?) of Lissa’s fanfic!!! I REALLY want to read more. That’s why I hate reading it as she writes it!

  1126. @ 1125- I KNOW!!!!!!!!!! I have convinced almost all of my friends to actually start calling me Ronnie Newkikr!

  1127. @1124- Okay. Are they ever on here? I only have one friend who has read G. I lent my copy to my other friend but she is refusing to read it. If she hasn’t finished it by Thursday (a day I go to school) then I will take it back.

  1129. @1126- Wow. That’s harsh. I told Maggie how extremely awesome Alek is and she said she was going to admit me to a mental hospital. Then I told her all the dudes in books I have been in love with. She proceeded to ask the person behind us for that # of the nearest mental hospital,

  1139. Hey, my sister knows a girl named Dallas, so it works for boys and girls, but you get all mad at me when I do that with M@X!!!!!

  1147. He changed the smile face @ the bottom of the page to a question mark I was on my phone when I noticed now I am on my nook so I dont see it

  1153. @ 1151- I’m on my Kindle Fire, commenting at this very moment in the Starbuck’s parking lot, stealing their free Internet.

  1156. @1155- Lucky. All my friends are like “how could you like someone you’ve never met?” Only one of my friends (the one that has read G) is supportive of my infatuation with Alek.

  1159. @ 1158-They don’t understand because they haven’t met him. * pats your back consolingly * I know how your forbidden love with Alek is. Oh, wait. No I don’t. Because Newkirk is AVAILABLE!!!!!!!??

  1169. Sophie-la loves Starbucks,Sophie-la likes to refer to herself in the 3rd person she thinks it is fun

  1177. I love coffee I just think that starbucks WAY over prices it. I prefer my coffee home-made or from the little coffee shop down the street.

  1180. @ 1179- too much work when you could just go across the street to McDonald’s and wait five minutes for it.

  1191. Thank you! I thought about that and you know Kirk from “Star Trek” and about NEWkirk! *elbowing lightly* Eh, eh? if you don’t know what that means Kirk was always falling if love with the girl. As is NEWkirk.

  1194. I was thinking about BOLD coffee. But I wasn’t sure if that was the proper term for it. Star Trek is awesome.

  1201. @1200 (congrats btw)- Do you mean the book or the series? ‘Cause (and I know I’m not Sorley) my favorite part is when they fight.

  1202. @1176. HOW DARE YOU COFFEE IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!! Notice all the capital letters. It is because I am yelling at you, and I am yelling at you because a.) Coffee is a wonderful thing and b.) I’m currently jacked up on three cups of it. Like always.

  1203. Stupid Windows computer, you’ve been searching for the correct software to install the new hardware for the last ten minutes!!! All I barking want to do is scan a picture and be done with it!!! This is why I’ve turned to team Apple. Once you go there, you never turn back.

  1211. Eap!!!!!!!!!! MADE OF FINGERNAILS???????? THAT’S WHAT I SAID!!!!!!! NEWKIRK SAID.MY WORDS!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1214. CHAPTER 13!!!!!!!!! CHAPTER 13!!!!!!!!!!!!! * mob aroused by words and begins forming picket lines with actual picket fences that say “Chapter 13!!!!” On it *

  1217. I’m the only one in my house that’s awake, and I am faced with a choice: Go to bed to be more better prepared for tomorrow, or stay up and write chapter 13. So I ask myself, WWDSD??? The answer to that is “none of the above”. She would go do something totally awesome like climb the side of the house with a very warm sleeping bag and sleep up there so she felt topside. Unfortunately, I am not that BS or BA, so I will go to bed and work on chapter 13 in study hall tomorrow. Goodnight, my little friends! *said in creepy old lady voice*

  1223. Okay I found this Awsome song and it reminded me of LBG sooo much I want you to check it out and tell me if you would Acctually like to hear it play in the movie of Leviathan (if they make one Wich they should cos its friggen awesome)
    It’s called Under A Paper Moon by All Time Low

  1227. You want to know a song that really fits in my opinion? Science and Faith by The Script. Because Deryn is science-ey, and Alek is all into providence and stuff.

  1231. Do you know what song is the best for the sad fight montage? “Poison and Wine” by The Civil Wars. Look it up on youtube. It is SO perfect.

  1235. @ 1227- The Scientist by Coldplay is good, too! It’s PERFECT!!!! ALEK’S SONG TO DERYN!!!!!!!!

  1236. I will once more share my idea about the uglies movie:
    I think that paradise by Coldplay should be in the movie when Tally-wa is leaving for the smoke to find Shay-la,OR when Tally-wa is going to get the operation

  1237. I have the entire movie planned out….I would create it if I could…..I have a lot of time on my hands

  1258. Sorry! I’m back! Like I was saying earlier, Paradise is SO GOOD for Alyss Heart, too. Because the lyrics “When she was just a girl, she expected the world.” bring to mind the part when little Princess Alyss expected to be Queen of Wonderland someday, and she knew she would rule over it when she grew up.
    “But it flew away from her reach, so she ran aw

  1259. Haha!
    That’s good really good and I’m sorry If I spell wrong I’m not looking at what I text
    You would be an exilent director Sophie c:
    Lolz if only you could do the Uglies move

  1260. Sorry! I’m back! Like I was saying earlier, Paradise is SO GOOD for Alyss Heart, too. Because the lyrics “When she was just a girl, she expected the world.” bring to mind the part when little Princess Alyss expected to be Queen of Wonderland someday, and she knew she would rule over it when she grew up.
    “But it flew away from her reach, so she ran away in her sleep.” Alyss had to run away because Redd murdered her parents, and so Hatter Madigan took her to England through the Pool of Tears. Yes. her whole life’s dream flew away from her grasp, and she had to run blindly to catch it and to escape her fears.
    “Life goes on it gets so heavy. The wheel breaks the butterfly. Every tear a waterfall.” Alyss, after she had lost Hatter M, had to move on with life and accept reality, and that she had to make the most of her life. It was as if she forgot the real Alyss back in Wonderland. Alyss even changed her name. Yet, she would always have that hope in the back of her mind, that a Pool of Tears would take her back to Wonderland.
    “In the Night, the stormy night, she closed her eyes. In the night, the stormy night, away she’ll fly.” Every night, she held on to her piece of Wonderland. And every night, she would fly away into the memories of her home.
    “And dream of Paradise.” HER Paradise. HER Wonderland.

  1265. Thank you Zaliz-la! Alyss Heart is from The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It is INCREDIBLE! Personally, it is the same rating as Leviathan.

  1266. @ 1264- But does it fit for the entire barking book?????
    I’ll stop being snobby now.
    When it comes to book comparisons, my claws come out.
    Metaphorically, of course.

  1267. Lol xD
    Idk I it would I’m no good at putting two and two together much ask Sophie she would know 😀 she like Director Spohie (Uglies Style) lolz (:
    Hmmm….I believe I’ll read that book 😀

  1268. Then this will be the start of a long and glorious friendship between two people, though seperated by prejudices against diferences of opinions on book series, however, we will be united by the bond of brotherly love with share for Alyss Heart!

  1275. I think MM means Facebook because Twitter is more like informing on sertain things not just random stuff like I only use twitter to say stuff about Scott Westerfeld and his awesomeness *_*

  1276. @1243. No… I haven’t even started *looks away guiltily and opens document*
    @1266. Of course metaphorically. You are a Clanker, so you would not allow yourself to be fabricated claws.
    @1272. I just finished my WWI unit yesterday! So Californians and Iowans DO learn the same stuff. Wait, what grade are you in? Are there metal detectors at your school, because there are at my cousins because of all the violence? Sorry for the random question; it just popped into my head. Also, he told me that the meanest kids in Iowa are nicer than the nicest kids in California. Do you think that’s true?

  1277. Oh, and I must explain a pressing matter to you that has thusfar been an inconsistency within my FanFic and the real LBG. Where did Volger go, and what about Dr. Barlow’s husband? Here is the answer; they are on a diplomatic mission to Germany! I made a change in Chapter 1 to inform readers of that, but I doubt you were willing to read it again just to find it, so I figured it would do no harm just to tell you. You’re welcome!

  1282. @1261- no no no it is very true Tally expects everything when she turns prettyiit is PERFECT

  1287. @ 1284- So I’m only MILDLY motivating? I MADE PICKET FENCES WITH ACTUAL PICKET FENCES FOR YOU!!!!!!

  1289. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Do not make me waste comment space to get 1300.

    (“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph” is a Book Thief reference. If your brother would ever get on this blog.)

  1291. 1290….. Oh, Miles. I hope you are writing chapter 13. Or doing homework. Or something important like that.

  1295. Hahahahahah MM your funny(: there are NO metal detectors at my school whatsoever my schools isn’t East LA (no offense to anyone from LA) and my schools is very small less than 700 students go here q:
    Are we really that much of a distraction???!

  1297. @ 1296- I have nothing to say but this: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. And thank you.

  1299. @1295. Oh, okay. My cousin lives in San Diego, and I think that’s kind of part of halfway close to LA. Less than 800 kids go to my school. No, you aren’t. Don’t you remember my telling you that I am fluent in both English and Sarcasm?

  1301. Yay!!!!!!!!!! Good for you Miles!!!!!!!!!!!
    And I am waiting. For chapter 13.
    No pressure or anything.

  1311. No it isn’t. Okay, here’s what you need to do. Hold your hand out, fingers spread like you’re going to give a high five, and then with your other hand make a fist with your thumb out straight, and then connect the pinky-side of your fist with the palm of your other hand, and it looks like a turkey! Tada!

  1312. @1310. Oh, yeah, you’re still in school right now. I had a noon out today, otherwise I would be, too. You’ve still got like 2 hours left though, right?

  1315. AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! I SEE THE TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!! I SHOWED MY MOM AND SHE SAW THE TURKEY TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1316. There’s also snail, and butterfly, and alligator. Oh, and whenever you do one of them, you have to say the name. So when you turkey, you have to actually say “Turkey!”

  1329. Muscatine has problems. As a friend of mine put it, “It’s basically a broken toilet that people keep crapping in.”

  1332. @1327. The kind in heavily populated, urban areas with high crime levels. And Muscatine, apparently.
    @1330. No, I haven’t. Nor have I ever seen family guy, and I most certainly don’t want to.

  1334. Wow, Simpsons is a whole lot different then Family Guy. I don’t want to watch Family Guy, but the simsons is hilarious and a lot cleaner then most people think.

  1347. @ 1341- oh, so you’re saying BECAUSE I’M A GIRL I’m not MAN ENOUGH TO WATCH THE SIMPSONS? ????????
    Try to claw your way out of the hole you just dug yourself in, M@X.
    That’s so Alek.

  1355. @ 1352- I AM NOT LITTLE!!!!!!!!! I AM ALMOST AS TALL AS MY DAD WHO IS A LITTLE OVER 6 FEET TALL!!!!!!!!!!! And, I AM the tallest girl in my class!!! And also the smartest.
    😀

  1356. @ 1354- Yeah, what do YOU laugh at? Crude and stupid humor? I guess that’s EVERY guy for you, since they are aparently ALL THE SAME! You know, because you are saying that ALL GIRLS ARE THE SAME AND LAUGH AT THE SAME THINGS!

  1359. @ 1357- Violent humor? As in “ha ha I kill you now” * slice slice * humor? So i suppose the GENERAL POPULATION of guys LIKE violent humor? And what does the GENERAL POPULATION of girls laugh at? Really, I’d like to know. Since YOU, as a BOY seem to know more on the subject than I do.

  1364. @1353. No. Food and Weight loss. Ironic much?
    @1355. 5’9″ Boo and yah.
    @1361. I’m aware of that. I only said it because I once stated that I could be a creepy old granny and you’d never know the difference, so I’ve taken to referring to myself as such, just for funsies.

  1366. @ 1364- that’s not creepy. And I suppose I’m the 50 year old man who lives in my mom’s basement and plays video games and watches FAMILY GUY and eats pork rinds all the time and never shaves and doesn’t take a bath.Heh Heh. Just kidding!!!! That would be too long to write.

  1368. I was just joking about 1366!!!!!!!!! Don’t leave!!!!!!!! I’m not a fifty year old man!!!!!!!!

  1376. 1 that is not the kind of violence I meant, more aling the lines of being hit with a frying pan.

    2 I apoligize for any offense I might have caused.

  1377. I am in despair,I am having a sleepier with some friends tomorrow the host is against my Scott-la/Scott-la book obsession and she won’t let me do ANYTHING that has to do with his books or him. I will have to sneak being on here,haha I like a challenge

  1379. Haha you guys are hilarious (:
    And need to be a bit more open minded cos I mean who dosent watch the Simpsons they have been on for like ever an their humor is very genuine

  1380. You should know this by now, Daliz. I don’t, Ronnie doesn’t, and neither does Sorley.
    Ooh, be extra sneaky, Sorley. They’ll take your phone as a war spoil if they catch you!

  1388. @1382. This one is comparatively long, M@X. It’s already a page and a half and not anywhere near done. But, in my personal opinion, it’s a good one, so be patient and don’t rush me!!!
    @1385. Very nervous. I’m shaking in my nylon pantyhose and old-lady shoes.

  1396. @1394. I do! Oh, I do! Did you know the creator writes books, and currently has two out for teen? Virals and Seizure? I’ve read Virals (it was awesome) and will read Seizure as soon as I get my hands on it.
    @1395. For a second I though you had said something about spiders. The shoes I love are my boots. Bearclaw brand. They’re not fancy, purple and flat, but I wear them everyday like it’s my job.

  1397. I love my boots to! Nothing fancy,I hate Uggs with passion though they have to much fur it makes them so hot! Especially in my weather

  1414. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!! I READ CHAPTER 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is saying something because I’m at school.

  1418. @Sophie
    Haha I found it funny cos after you said you where going to bed I checked my twitter an Scott Westerfeld just poster up his FAF lolz

  1419. Oops I didn’t mean FAF on the last comment I meant revealance
    I have a very weird auto correct q:
    It once mistaked ‘car’ for ‘Saphier’

  1420. Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!!! I have an uncle who was born on one of these, and it was also my mom’s 10th birthday. They are very lucky for her…
    @1418. Wait, so there is FAF??? So…confused… he said he wouldn’t post it until Saturday….

  1421. @1419. Phew. I was worried I’d missed it. I caught a lucky break that he isn’t posting until tomorrow, because I still can’t get my dumb scanner to work, and I haven’t sent it to him yet. 🙁

  1425. Okay, I emailed it to myself, but when I try to open it it iPhoto, it gives it really bad resolution, and I need that application to crop off all the white space! NOOOOO! Do you think Scott would just do that if I send it to him? I could say that the white space is unnecessary but I am computer incapable so I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself…which is kind of true.

  1466. I just listened to “Science and Faith” and I think that that would be perfect for this: the intro is when Deryn tells him Tesla was insane. Then they stare at each other for a bit and then they kiss sometime during the chorus. Then the credits start (with the song still playing). That would be awesome.

  1469. Here is a list of my favorite songs. In order.
    1. “Science and Faith” by The Script
    2. “Poison and Wine” by The Civil Wars
    3. “Hot Mess” by Hedley
    4. “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars
    5. “Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars

  1476. I think that Goliath would be great as a musical. With all the people singing extremely apropos songs at apropos times. (I love the word “apropos”) But in a non cheesy way. In a true way. Like their singing their thoughts, ya know?

  1484. That test was freakishly easy I was the first one done!!!!!! I barley studied it was so EASY

  1487. I wonder if Kayla is done, we aren’t in the same class sh is right next door probably working her butt off, Kayla if you see this…..YOU GO GIRL

  1492. I also think that if they make movies out of LBG they shouldn’t make it all dramatic like Harry Potter. Because those movies do NOT capture the essence of harry potter. They are WAY too dramatic, you know with all the random screaming and black smoke which are, apparently, death eaters?!! LBG movies should SO not be like that.

  1493. @ the latter part of 1491- I mean I have posted like one sentence and you have already posted like 3 comments in the time it took me to write all that.

  1496. Sophie-la aka Sorley loves to speak in 3rd person, she thinks it is creepy and fun @ the same time!

  1500. It just occured to Sophie-la that the “Sophie” part in Sophie-la has been spelled wrong until she bothered to notice, she switched from her nook to a computer in the science room…

  1504. @1497-yes he does 🙂 and yes I type and Text fast!! this doesn’t have to do with the speed of texting, but my parents checked how many texts I was sending they said “Sophie you need to slow down on the texts you had over 10,000!” and I’m like “Woah ok” but inside I was like “new record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

  1507. @1502-THANKS!!! and B4 I was commentning on my nook…. but now that I finished the test I am on a computer in the science room, and when I typed in “Sophie-la” I said “Spohie-la” so for a few comments that was my name

  1511. Hey guys I am taking art this year and it is time to go!!!!!!!I will be back soon!!!!!!!! I don’t really want to go to art but I have to so bye!! 🙁

  1522. @ 1476- I find that INCREDIBLY cheesey! Like Deryn is standing there, next to Alek, and she’s singing about him, and he just HAPPENS to not hear it? I mean, come on, really? If LBG was a musical it would ruin the whole barking plot! I mean, musicals are GREAT if it’s a comedy, or a romance comedy. But Leviathan is NOT a comedy, or a romance. It is a steampunk sci-fy action novel of DOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Minus the doom part.

  1525. @ 1523- Aye, if you say so. It would be AWESOME if there was a follow-up novel about the Zoological Society, but it was a comic book type thing. Not a black and white manga, like Uglies, but a glossy, colorful type thing.

  1527. @1522- I think you will find you are wrong there. LBG is a)Sci-fi b) alternate history c) romance d) comedy. And no, he DOES hear her. Plus music is the only way, in movies, to translate the characters thoughts. I mean how else are you supposed to know what the are thinking? Narration? Their expressions? No. Music. Singing. Lyrics.

  1528. @ Kayla-wa: You should really change your name to Kay-la. So that way it is your real name, AND an Uglies reference all rolled up into one!

  1532. @ 1527- By romance I mean “Oh, Alek! My heart burns with yearning for you! Oh, how my burning love for you is likened to a firey phosphorous shell encased in my heart!” type thing. And music without words DOES speak emotions. Have you ever seen The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”? I have that soundtrack on my iPod and listen to it almost everyday on the bus, and it completely portrays their emotions.

  1535. @ 1533- but Leviathan can NOT afford to be cheesey! It’s so much deeper and more intense than that!

  1544. Do you know? You are a VERY fun person to debate with. You don’t really agree with me on many counts which often sparks a heated discussion. Which is nice as it stretches my, regrettably, rusty perusuation skills.

  1548. @ 1544- Aww, thank you! I love it when people say that to me! Which really isn’t a good thing, is it? Oh well. I look at it like it’s a compliment. I like debating over things. Because it opens your eyes to different viewpoints and ways of processing thought. Because it’s good to look at life through many different perspectives, isn’t it?

  1549. @1548- That’s the problem with friends. They never want to debate. And my school doesn’t have a debate team. That’s why I want to be a lawyer. I can do that sort of stuff. I also want to be a writer on the side.

  1550. @ 1545- Exactly! So it’s not really fair to compare the two because they both have different plots and themes and backgrounds. I think why Hugo turned out so well was because the directors pulled out a lot of the emotionally jarring parts of the book and really dwelled on that and added some comedy to lighten it up.

  1552. @ 1549- You’re exactly right about the friend part. Because they automatically assume that you’re picking a fight with them and it just gets really… stupid. And when you want to debate (or when I want to debate with kids in my class) they automatically cuss me out and blow things out of proportion. So I have to learn to step down and just let them think they’ve won. Which, of course, they haven’t. 🙂

  1553. Do you know what is really weird? That at a lot of random times I start shaking. I don’t know why. I’m not cold, or excited or anything, just shaking.

  1562. @ 1559- My friend and I do that too! But it’s usually over something unimportant or silly, like the thought of pizza on Mars or something.

  1564. @1562- Same here, except we mostly talk about books. Like the other day she said her fav book was one about a true life story of a vet. And I was like “Bluggg” And so we argued about how (she) true story’s are better and (me) how fiction is so fantastical it rules.

  1565. @1563- Well, don’t go see it. It is a waste of good time and money. The animation is terrific; I thought that some of the people were really real, but the story SUCKS. There is no character development and the plot, and even some of the scenes, is/are almost identical to that of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

  1571. Hey, everyone who comments! I want to get comment 1,997 because I was born in 1997! I just want to let you know because it would be cool for me to get it! Thanks!

  1576. @ 1573- The vampire thing amuses me! OKay, so I showed my gal friends who’ve read Leviathan, and they loved it. Okay. Here it is.
    Lie for me.

    The secrets that she’d kept for so long
    came pouring down like the rain.
    The words thjat she’d said rang deep to his bones.
    Lie for me always.

    He stared at her, her face, lips, and her eyes.
    And realized he’d been fed
    A mouthful of lies.

    In his mind’s eye, the mask finally slipped free,
    He could see her fine features
    When Alek first heard her say,
    Swear you’ll lie for me.

    He stared at her, her face, lips, and her eyes.
    And realized he’d been fed
    A mouthful of lies.

    Those quiet words rang over the wind,
    Over Alek’s pounding heart,
    Then soft lips he thought he knew touched his.
    He would lie for her.

    Always.

  1578. Hey, guess what? In harry potter 5 they used different people for the voices of Hermione, Harry, and Tonks than the real actors!

  1579. What do you think? I know it’s short, and I usually write longer things, but I felt this was to the point. I didn’t want to make it too long, because then it would distract from the main point.

  1583. @1576- Really good! But I don’t think that fed is spelled that way either. I can never write poetry. I tried once for a back to school project I had to do once, but it failed. I just can’t write anythink deep like that. Wait. Here is the one exeption:

    There are many kinds of writing. There is good writing, which is feelings and thoughts translated into words.
    There is bad writing, which is a monologue of problems. Then there is great writing.
    Great writing is more than just words on a page. It is emotions laid flat on a piece of paper. This is no longer writing. It is delving in to the authors mind and seeing their tremendous imagination.
    There is a generous amount of good authors in the world. There are very few bad authors in the world. There are no great authors.
    Only those good authors who are determined to be great. And succeed.

  1586. The last two sentences are REALLY GOOD! I mean, not like the rest of it wasn’t good. But there needs to be a firm ending. Which you did perfectly, by the way.

  1588. I’ve written some other Leviathan poetry, too. But it’s at school, in my LA binder. I’ve written a Book Thief poem, too. That one was long.

  1592. What is harsh? I don’t mean to be harsh! Did I sound harsh? Oh my barking spiders! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to offend anyone! I didn’t even know I did!

  1593. @ 1591- If the orchestral background is expectionally good, I get goose bumps. Or if the lyrics are particularly moving.

  1594. @1590- I don’t know. It just didn’t look quite right. Maybe it is right and I am just displaying my unavoidable knack to say something is wrong when it is, in truth, completely right.

  1595. @ 1594- No, I completely understand! Sometimes I look at words and think that they look weird and in actuality it’s right and that’s just the American dictionary for you!

  1596. @1593- I also start convulsing when I read something particularly groundbreaking. Like when Bovirl kept saying “MR. Dylan Sharp”. Like I said, I am a spaz.

  1598. @ 1596- I started shaking (but mostly screaming) when Alek was laying in bed and rubbing his forehead when he read Malone’s article on Artemis Sharp.

  1600. @ 1597- Oh, okay. I see. That’s PRODIGIOUS! My sister and I watched October Sky and there was this nerdy kid on that movie (who Sarah now has a movie crush on) said prodigious as an exclamatory interjection and so now Sarah and I say it. Whenever we can.

  1606. @1602- That would be hilarious if we did. I would so tell my parents and they would chuckle and be like thank goodness. She is on there too much anyway. But then we would just go to a different post.

  1610. @ 1606- We would! My mom said that, too! She just doesn’t understand… * sigh * if she only read Leviathan, then she would know the reason why I’m on here all the time. But she said she won’t read it because she knows what happens anyway… Since we talk about it so much.

  1614. @1611- Rachel. Just look. I don’t think “Singe” will get TOO offended. Plus Zane IS, like, wearing a shirt and everything. But he’s still hot.

  1624. @ 1621- Wow. That hurts.
    I am reading EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE BY JOHNATHAN FOER! * screams EXTREMELY LOUD and INCREDIBLY CLOSE to your face*

  1625. Do you know who is really-for lack of a better word- handsome? The young Sirius Black. I have always been a sucker for long dark hair, and his personality is TOTALLY rebellious and he is just plain awesome.

  1626. @1624- First off, I think I may need another shower after all that EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE screaming. Anyway, I’ve heard of that, whats it about again?

  1627. @ 1625- No barking clue who that is. And I like to use the words deboinar, dashing, gorgeous, suave. It sounds so much more… tantalizing.

  1629. @ 1626- I don’t know. It’s about this really intelligent nine year old named Oskar and something about his dad working at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and Oskar goes on a journey to find a lock to the key he found in his father’s room after Oskar’s father died and he meets new people as he goes on the journey and learns more about his father and himself. It’s a movie, and I wanted to read it before I saw the movie, so I bought it on my KF and I’m reading it now. The way the boy talks is HILARIOUS! He’s really a lot like Bruno. Witty, young, innocent, and full of olife

  1636. @ 1633- Oh. I thought you had read The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. Bruno was the German boy in that story.
    @ 1634- Nope. Not me.

  1641. @1636- I REALLY want to see that movie. I saw that it has Asa Butterfield and I was like “I HAVE TO SEE THAT!”
    @1638- The only boys who have long hair are the ones the TAKE CARE OF IT!!! Plus, you are right, the ones that don’t are wierd-o’s.

  1651. @1650- That is the movie I was Talking about! I LOVE him too! He is the BEST YOUNG ACTOR!!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Sorry. Just had to see what that does.

  1652. Do you know what just tragic thought just occurred to me?! What is Mr. Westerfeld blocked comments?!?!?! He can do that! WHAT WOULD WE DO!!!!!!! We would have to get forum accounts.

  1659. Fah! Forum accounts are for ninnies. *looks away sheepishly* Sorry, Forum groupies who are watching me with creepy expressions that hint imminent doom. *Runs away*

  1660. @1658. *hums “Popular” from Wicked* What? Who, me? Not the kind of popular who wear expensive Aeropostale clothes and turn up their nose at the smart girls, no way. I’m better than that.

  1665. @1664. Oh, my. Well, they spend about half their time at their friends’ houses (that’s also kind of what they do in their free time. I’m not sure WHAT they do there, really, but I assume it’s stupid stuff like-and this is sadly a true story someone told me they did-but liquor into coke cans and drink it while watching a movie, though it can’t all be illegal). They “forget” about homework in favor of going shopping and buying expensive clothes, getting their hair colored, etc.. Some have sports practice. A very few are actually nice-ish. Not that I’m biased or anything. From what I can tell, they tend to like *cough* making out with their boyfriends, hating their own friends for stupid reasons but being so two faced about it that the person their mad at has no idea they aren’t the best of friends, and finding the sluttiest clothes to wear as possible. They don’t like getting dirty, seeming too strong or smart in front of their boyfriends (so they are ditzy as a general rule), teachers who tell them to stop texting/talking in class or make them try, and in some cases their parents for taking away their phones.
    Let’s just say that I am the complete opposite of this, and any generalizations are the fault of stereotypes that are far too often lived up to.
    Tada! That was an awesome rant, right?

  1670. @ 1658- Popular people are the brats with their life sucked out of them from peer pressure.
    So, no, I am not popular. I guess. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have friends.

  1671. Miles- It seems that I need to paint some new things on my picket fences…. CHAPTER 14!!!!!!!!!! Seriously. I just bought bright orange paint from PICK-ET YOURSELF STORE. For all of your picket fence needs.
    HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! GET IT!!!!!!!!!! PICK-ET YOURSELF?????

  1676. It’s not all bad. My friends and I love fighting with each other. We also lIke making fun of the “popular” kids.

  1677. @1668- At the public school where I live everybody NOT nearly as bad as your *waves hands sarcastically* school. Here smoking is about the worst thing any 15 yr old’s do. Well that and wearing expensive crap from aeropostale.

  1681. I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like Aeropostale. I don’t even know what it MEANS! I mean “AERO” implies that it’s something from the SKY or AIR. But I don’t know what POSTALE means.

    It’s a barking mystery to me.

  1685. I go to a real school!!!! Its not usually that bad, it was a rough month and the main girl responsable left.

  1687. @ 1685- Was she blonde? It’s okay. We blondes are responsible for all school meshaps because we are stereotypically all dumb and popular.

  1688. Haha yeah te cops get call to my school about once a month for ‘popular’ girls fighting q:
    But the girlssucker school suck up to the teachers to get good grades
    They essentially become the ‘teachers pets’ to get away with anything and everything they want
    It’s annoying really…

  1689. @1685- I go to school a day and a half with almost all Jehovah witnesses (no offense or anything) and the remaining christian farm people who a) play mock poker or b) (me and my friends) talk about books all day.

  1691. I am blond too. (Sarcastic voice) I don’t know, I’m to stupid to remember, it was that color that is kind of like black, but lighter.??.

  1692. @ 1690- I don’t even know who I am anymore! * sobs and runs into corner but trips over powercord and the whole website shuts down *

  1693. @1685- I go to school a day and a half with popular kids who are all friends and go to church together and then you have the remaining christian farm people who a) play mock poker or b) (me and my friends) talk about books all day.

  1699. OMG, like, all of us are, like, blond! THere’s this song, from this one, like, movie, that totally sums up my LIFE! Its called, like, *pauses to think in a blond way* ‘Cause I’m a Blond, from the, like, movie “Earth girls are easy”. I, like, did it for a lip sync in 6th grade. There was this other girl who’s totally popular and blond too and she just pretended to sing, which is totally cheating.

  1701. “because I’m blond, I don’t have to think. I talk like a baby and I never pay for drinks! Don’t have to worry about gettin’ a man, if I keep this blond and I keep these tan! Cause I’m a blond, b-l-i-n-d, cause I’m a blond, don’t you wish you were me?”

  1704. HOW DARE YOU STEAL 1700 FROM ME, M@X!!!! YOU SHALL PERISH IN FLAMES NOW!!!!! No, seriously, I can make your character sacrifice himself and die via fire. Mua. ha. ha. I love having ultimate power. Except that I don’t…

  1705. My phone is being used by my friends!! It is hard to find time to post!!! Ima sneaky gurl…

  1708. I am sorry, I didn’t mean to. Its mire like it fell and hit me on the head rather then stole it. (Holes referance)

  1709. @1074. I would know how you feel, because I, too, am number 1, but I make it super glaring obvious I’m smart. *ponders on whether to go on a rant involving everything that makes her different from everyone else she knows*

  1716. @ 1701- I got 1000! So don’t freak out over posts that don’t matter! Like 1700! Because 1000 is awesome!

  1717. What I think is HILARIOUS is that I’m completely book smart, but I just don’t get common sense!

  1719. So now I’m alone? So after all we’ve been through, (which really isn’t that much, now that you think about it) you guys decide to DITCH ME AND GO GET A PIZZA? I’m ashamed. I am very ashamed.
    Hey Miles, did you read my DALEK poem?

  1720. Hey! I got comment 1717! Pretty cool, if you think about it.
    Of course, most blondes don’t think.
    So I guess it’s not funny.
    If you don’t think about it.
    But it IS.

  1735. Oh, okay. I see. A smiley face is a smiley face, no matter in what direction the smile is pointing. Of course, if a smiley face was upside down, then it would be a frowney face. 🙁

  1738. Yes, Ronnie, I did read it, and I was like “Awww…”
    @1717. Yes, we did. And it was delicious veggie pizza that Scott-la would approve of because he is a vegetarian. YUM!!!
    Her smiley face didn’t work because is was backward. Parenthesis first and then colon doesn’t work.
    He. He. Now that I am done with the Derlilek I have moved on to a Varlow fanart. Muahaha!!!

  1741. @ 1736- I’m glad I didn’t miss out on anything important, then. Because veggies and meat on pizza is COMPLETELY GROSS! The cheeze gets all slimey and ICK! Just plain cheese for me.

  1743. @ 1738- Muahaha. You’re just rubbing it in my NONsmiley faces that you didn’t get 1000!!!!!!!!! 🙁 for you!!!!!!!!

  1744. @ 1740- What on the BARKING PLANET are you talking about! I have never ever never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever have failed at anything!
    Wait. So I guess that means I fail at failing. DARN!

  1749. @ 1744- MONKEY BREAD? And I suppose that there’s a CHIMPANZEE cookie as well! * snorts arrogantly *

  1761. @ 1756- Where DIDN’T I go is the question.
    @ 1757- I AM!!!!!!! AHH!!!!!!! HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT DISGUISE!!!!!!!

  1763. @ 1760- I am completely, 100%ly a teenage girl, from head to toe. * Goliath reference *
    Pork rinds are GROWS? That is HILARIOUS!

  1770. @ 1765- I chased a chicken once in a Physchology parking lot in Key West, Florida. I almost got it, too.

  1773. “I’m a girl.”
    When Deryn opened her eyes, the boffin was staring at her with no change of expression.
    “Indeed,” she said.
    Deryn’s mouth fell open. “You mean you… did you barking know?”
    “I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised.” Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. “Though on this occasion it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you’re quite certain?”
    “Aye.” Deryn shrugged. “Head to toe.”

  1777. Hmm…I think I get you lolz (:
    I come as close as I can get though
    I hate skirts/dresses/shorts
    I perfer jeans and sneakers with a t-shirt haha!:D

  1778. @1773. And one of my favorite parts in Goliath, along with Deryn talking with Alek about how they belong together, and of course both times they kissed. There are many other wonderful parts, obviously, but I was only naming a few.

  1782. @1775. Ha! Me, too. Although a style I adopted from my time in Europe is short shorts with leggings. Muahaha. Well, I’d actually tried it before that, but I got made fun of, so now I can say its fashion in Europe and that they can get stuffed.

  1785. @ 1780- I’ve seen a lot of girls wear that. So it’s popular in the US, I guess. Or at least Hickville, Hicktucky.

  1787. Aw, man, I don’t know where that is in the context of the books, though! I mean, I totally know that Deryn says that, but I don’t know where or why! *teardrop/headdesk*

  1788. @ 1782- Well, it is hard to judge characteristics of a person when you’re chatting with them online. Let’s see. I’ll start with the basics.
    1. I like wearing skirts.
    2. I like being different.
    3. I like to skip down the halls and literally “sing in the rain” to “Singin’ in the Rain”
    4. I love sci fy movies and steampunk books.
    5. Reading and playing my violin are not hobbies, they are my way of life.
    6. I love being me, and no one can change it.
    7. Besides Newkirk.

  1789. @1783. Interesting. I hope I start a trend here, because that would be totally awesome. I kind of part of halfway started knee-high socks with crazy designs in sixth grade, but it’s a toss up between me and the local stoner girls…

  1791. @ 1785- I remember it clearly because it was my favorite line in all of Behemoth! It’s when Alek is skulking around on the Leviathan, and he gets into the message lizard room and wakes up all the beasties and then Deryn comes and finds him and she’s like “At least you were brilliant enough to get caught by someone who won’t object to your skulking” or something like that. And then he says “Am I really that useless?” and she says “No, I’m just dead clever. Pure dead brilliant me. Haven’t you noticed?” and he * momentarily sighs* takes a step closer to her and looks her in the eye with a smile and says “I have.”
    * sobs * BARKING SPIDERS IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL!

  1793. @ 1790- Because I was adding my own opinions and fangirly moments and I was quoting it from memory.

  1796. Number 8 added to my list:
    I hate Twilight trash.
    Number 9:
    I don’t count myself as a romantic. But I think Leviathan has…. * softer, quieter voice * changed me, somehow.
    BARKING SPIDERS! I’VE GOTTEN SOFT!
    (And that’s when you say “(quote Alek’s line in chapter 44 of Goliath)”)

  1797. @1786. Well, since we’re sharing now….
    1. As a general rule, I don’t wear make up or make my hair look pretty.
    2. If it’s not comfortable, I probably won’t wear it. Ever.
    3. I read, write, and draw as a way of life.
    4. I challenge boundaries. Say I can’t do something, I’ll do anything to prove you wrong. It’s just who I am. Deal with it.
    5. I am not your typical nerd. See, it’s the boundaries thing. I break standards.
    6. I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty. Give me a puddle of mud and I’ll go to town on that bad boy, or a rock climbing wall and I’ll curse my way up the side of it.
    7. Me is who I am, and if you don’t like it you can get stuffed.

  1798. @ 1793- Thank you. I try my best. QUIZ ME ON LEVIATHAN QUOTES! IT’S REALLY FUN!
    Hello Sophie-la.

  1799. @ 1795- I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY HAVE A FRIEND WHO DOESN’T WEAR MAKEUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I generally don’t do what other people do.

  1803. YES!!! HAHA ALL YOU NINNIES I GOT 1800!!!! Is it sad how excited that makes me?
    Actually, don’t answer.
    Well, go ahead and answer. If you want to.
    No pressure or anything.

  1804. @ 1798- LOOK IT UP AND WEEP!!!!!!!!!!!! If I win, you will tell Sophie that Uglies is better than Leviathan! IF you’re right, I’ll say it, deal?

  1807. @1796. Okay, how about… “Mr. Rigby found his voice a moment later, ‘It’s not just the bears that should be wary, Mr. Sharp.’
    She nodded slowly. “Aye, sir, we’ll have to keep an eye on that fellow.”

  1810. @ 1804- Uhmm, about that bet…. * scratches back of neck nervously * It seems my OLDER BROTHER came in and typed that….. Heh heh…. * runs away hurriedly from room * * answering machine answers * Hullo. Rachel isn’t here right now. Leave a message after the beep. *BEEEEEEEEP*

    @ 1805- Chapter…. 4? I think. After Tesla shocked those Russian bears with his lightning stick before he got on the Leviathan.

  1817. @ 1814- Hold on a second. Let me give you a REALLY BARKING HARD ONE!

    “Siberia,” Alek said, the words cold and harsh on his tongue, as unforgiving as the landscape passing below.

    TRY FIGURING THAT ONE OUT! HA!

  1819. Hmm… that one is REALLY hard. He’s talking with Volger at the very beginning of Goliath about where they’re headed, right? And isn’t something with a great circle route involved?

  1822. NO! WRONG! FIRST LINE OF FIRST SENTENCE OF THIRD BOOK! ALEK, DERYN, AND NEWKIRK ARE IN THE MESS HALL! BOVRIL IS ON ALEK’S SHOULDER, AND THEY ARE LOOKING OUT A WINDOW WITH NEWKIRK, AND DERYN IS EATING BREAKFAST!
    All that from memory. BOO and YAH.

  1825. No… *looks away as a tear pricks her eye* you should just kick me out. I am not worthy of commenting on this blog. *Feels a cold hand grasp her heart* Good bye.

  1831. @ 1827- Newkirk’s hair flowed suavely in the wind as he valiantly saved a fair, blonde maiden once again. Newkirk ran across the bow of the Leviathan, running to meet his love. Yet as soon as he got there, his jog was in vain, because the maiden slipped from his grasp and flew silently towards the blue sea below, her flowing dress flapping around her as if she were a golden goddess who had fallen from Olympus above.

  1839. Okay, so I’m not some crazy weird phsychopath I appear to be. I am generally a very nice girl.

  1841. (continued of 1837) I mean the pschopath thing, because, whenever I see British people, especially BLONDE British people, I freak out.

  1843. Wow, guys! 1840 comments already! Think of what was happening in history in 1840! I CALL 1914!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1844. @1829. That’s an easy one. It’s toward the end of my fanfic when… well. I can’t tell you all of it because it would give it away.
    @1838. *spits in disdain* Boyfriends! Fah! Give me a hot guy in a book over one of those any day. Trust me. I tried dating and failed epically. The guy kissed me so I freaked and broke up with him. Via text message.

  1848. @ 1842- WHAT?????????????????????????? * HEART BEATING INCREDIBLY FAST, FISTS BANGING ON TABLE* DO NOT DO THIS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM A FRAGILE PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1849. Haha. That’s totally going in my fanfic now, you just don’t know how or when. Yes! *High fives herself* *Intercepts and turkey’s her own high five* Turkey!

  1850. @ 1847- I showed one of my Levia-buddies how to “turkey” a high five and she just laughed. And I showed my social studies teacher, too. Who doesn’t like kids. He just grumbled at me. The turkey probably brought back unwanted Thanksgiving memories.

  1852. Gotta go to bed! Bye! Post chapter 14 soon! Write me in the dedication page as the “crossdresser who supported me every step of the way!”

  1853. @1848. No way! I have a history teacher who doesn’t like kids either! It was quite an unwelcome change from my 8th grade history teacher, because he was the craziest, most spaztic teacher ever! His class was so much fun. *sighs*

  1857. COME BACK COME BACK COME BACK! I need someone to talk to so I don’t waste comment space and I can get 1,914!

  1861. Am I really going to waste this much comment space so I can get 1914? That’s a lot of useless comments. I hope Miles or someone comes back.

  1864. Okay. I really want number 2000. Rachel stole 1000 from me, even after all my hard work, and I am determined to top her. I am also determined to skate faster than my cousin the little brat. Here is the story: So my grandma had won a little skating party and my whole mothers side of the family was there (they ALL skate) so my sis and me (the ones who had more or less been rasied in the states) were the only ones who didn’t know how to skate. Now, keep in mind that this was quite a few years ago and NOW I know how to skate rather well. Better than any of you I bet. Anyway so I was clutching the boards scared to death of those crappy rental skates, and then that little rat, Ryan, a hockey player, came speeding at me from all the way on the other side of the rink. I was freaking out inside my head because I thought he was going to crash into me. The worst part was the maniacal grin on his face. Then, get this, he stopped right in front of me spraying ice all on me and scaring me half to death. That is why all through free time at skating lessons I practiced a) scaring all the little kids who stink at skating b) scaring all the adults who stink even worse and c) skating REALLY fast straight at the boards and then stopping and freaking everyone in the vicinity out completely.

    That was my longest comment ever!

    P.S. Before you think that I am heartless and mean for scaring all those people, the kids don’t really get scared, just impressed that anyone could swerve that fast, and the adults are SUPER scared of the ice and they get scared when the five year old laps them.

  1866. Mwa ha ha. I just got a evil idea. Rachel wants 1914 does she? Well, so. Do. I. And as she’s not on here she can’t stop me, can she? This is revenge at it’s sweetest. Do you hear me Rachel? Revenge.
    Mwa. Ha. HA!

  1880. Im not sad Sophie-la is happynshe stole surgar sweetner packets from a resteraunt and is now on a sugar high…

  1905. Here is my case: Animal books are often cheesy, overly emotional and entirely unreal books. I will confess to the fact that there is the rare good animal book. But these are rare. I think that animals are a subject way over written and therefor there is not very many new plots available. That is my case. Thank you.

  1928. @1922- If that was you, you have no idea what you have just done. I have a on-going rivalry with Ronnie. And you are happy about it? You really don’t get it.

  1932. I hate you hope-la. I know I shouldn’t say that. but now you have wasted Dalek’s birth year on “hey guys”. That is unforgivable. I am leaving now.

  1936. I understand I see why you wanted it!!! I have read the books,remember I read the books to understand!

  1938. I know. I don’t hate you Sofie. I hate that hope. I know I shouldn’t. I just need to blame someone. And, I wouldn’t leave but my dad is making me.

  1939. Hope is a nice girl!! She hasnt read those books just uglies…she didnt know until I told her……

  1940. Okay. Fine. I forgive you whatever your name is. Let’s just say we were all in this and it was a big scheme and that way I will still get revenge on Rachel and I won’t hate anybody, ok?

  1941. That is actually really smart to wamt that comment number…uglies cant do that,well only 300 cause the books are 300 years into the future

  1944. Now I have to watch back to the future 2 with my da. Remember Rachel knows nothing about our little disagreement and we are all together on the whole 1914 thing and Hope cussed it up ON PURPOSE! Okay?

  1957. So who lost this lil bet?? C’mon who is gonna say it???????? Sophie-la wants to know….*smiles evilly*

  1964. @sorley-for you have brought your mind-rain and specials book,and what is that I spy with my little eye? Is that a library uglies book perhaps?

  1968. I love this Tally-wa quote in extras!!!:
    “my name is Tally Youngblood,sorry to bother you but this,is a special circumstance”
    EEEPPPP I love it!!!

  1969. I also like in SPECIALS:
    “you are not alone,Tally. Stop pretending you are.”
    -David,Specials,pg:322

  1972. GRRRRR!!!!! You stole 1899 from me, Sorley, and you didn’t even realize the significance! 1899 is when Dalek was born, and the books take place in 1914! I am betrayed.

  1974. GEEBZ I am sorry!!!!! I didn’t even realize I took that one and yes I realize it!!!! I’m really sorry guys!!i seriously didn’t mean to!

  1976. I see what I did Levi,you said do you want 1900 do I said yes,so I figured that you wouldn’t post until then so I posted random comments until I got to 1900……I’m really sorry 🙁

  1977. In my defense I hadn’t read y’alls conversation B4 I hit 1900, then once all y’all LEFT I read it…

  1978. @1970-I realize it now!!! Well I realized when that. Thing happend……….and I realize the other one when I read y’alls convo

  1983. @1971-ok look Rachel I’m sorry I really meant to get it right and you DID take 1000 from me. I’m sorry, can you forgive me?

  2004. Wait, Ronnie! Don’t leave! If you do, you won’t know that I posted new stuff to my writing blog! And that would be sad, because there’s stuff in it that would make you VERY happy. Oh, well. Your loss.
    Hey, I was born in 1997, too!

  2005. YES!!!! HI LITTLE BROTHER!!!! Oh, I believe some introductions are in order. Everyone, this is my little brother Scott, and his crossdresser name it Melody because that would’ve been his name if he was a girl. Scott, everybody. Everybody, Scott.

  2013. The computer can too talk Miles, you simply have to use the speak command,

    *The real definition of Dumb*
    To be incapable of speech
    related words, illiterate

  2023. HI MELODY!!!!!!!!!! WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that’s your crossdresser name. Not your real one. 🙂

  2027. Of course Melody is my real name, I am wasn’t a girl I wouldn’t have my own T.V. show “The Melodramatics of Melody”

  2028. @ 2024- then why is his name MELODY? Your name is supposed resemble your real name!! Yes, I did! I love the asterisks thing!
    @ Melody- Did you finish the Book Thief yet? Who is your favorite character? What is your favorite part? AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

  2034. My name is Melody because I am a girl!!! And if I was a guy with a cross-dresser name for a T.V. show it would be because melody is the name I would actually have if I was a girl (which I am). Yes I finished the book thief, just last night actually. My favorite character is max but I like Frua Hermann too. My favorite part was when Death started complaining about his job (Not really but I don’t know what else to answer for that part) and I’ve had so much coffee today.

  2035. Really? I’m hyped up on coffee, too!
    His crossdresser name is Melody because that would have been his name if he were a girl. Our parents have told us that several times. My older sister, Megan, is actually the one that named him Scott, which is quite impressive considering she was, like, 3 at the time….

  2038. @2032- OH MY BARKING SPIDERS! AHHH!!!! DIDN’T YOU, since you’re a girl, CRYAT THE END????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just started bawling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rudy was my favorite character. But I think I liked him the best when he was younger, like during The Jesse Owens incident. Although, I did like The Thought of Rudy Naked, though. I do. I do indeed.
    @ 2033- Melody, Melissa, and (your older sister’s name that hopefully starts with an M also)

  2040. @ 2034- Ha! I knew it! I figured he was younger than you.
    And at 2036 I meant DIDN’T you CRY AT the end.

  2041. @2036. Yes. I already said that her name is Megan…
    @2037. Yes, I do. Those were dark times… well, parts were. I was the stereotypical nerd back then.

  2042. I almost did when she tried to make hans play the accordion, but the rest of the time I remained stoic

  2043. Confession time. I am a guy, my name is Scott, and I pretend to be a girl to have my alliterating T.V. show.

  2047. @ 2040- When did she try that? Oh, and since you ARE a girl, let’s talk about RUDY!!!!! RUDY EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! When he covered himself in charcoal, when he went to the survey thingy (when he got examined, * sigh * Heh heh), when he JUMPED IN THE RIVER FOR LIESEL’S BOOK!!!!!! (oh, I wish a boy would do that for me, don’t you, Melody?) AND when he…. when he…… I won’t say it. But since you are a girl, WHAT BOOK CHARACTERS DO YOU HAVE CRUSHES ON?

  2048. @2044- as in, The Whistler from The Book Thief? The Whistler, who would WHISTLE AS HE KILLED PEOPLE? No. Sorry. I’m not allowed to be friends with homicidal musicians.

  2053. Um… ah… totally. That Rudy guy is such a hunk? I’m sure he was a very hot athlete??? um… What a hero saving the book. The giver of bread and teddy bears

  2055. @2043- I loved Max. Not M@X from this comment section. Eew. I like Max. The Jewish Fist Fighter. I loved him. Because he was a good friend. I was seriously so upset when he went to the concentration camp.

  2056. @2044. What would the terms of our friendship contract be? Oh, and since you’re here *waggles eyebrows and adjusts awesome fedora* would you be interested in some fanfic?

  2058. Ronnie! How dare you cheat on Newkirk like that! And to think I wrote a shuffle story about you and him! No, seriously. Click on my name and read the latest shuffle stories.

  2063. @ 2051- And how he stood up for Liesel at school when she wanted to read but she couldn’t so she started quoting the grave digger’s handbook and then the teacher was like * slap slap * but before that Rudy stood up and screamed YOU CAN DO IT LISEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2064. Anybody here read the UGLIES series??? Alek is good so is Newkirk, but I have a question for UGLIES fans (remember I capitilize book titles)

  2071. @2065-I SUSPECTED AS MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IM NOT JOKING I THOUGHT IT FIRST!!!!!!I HAD MY DOUBTS FROM THE START

  2076. @2072-Zane-la…..hhhuuuuummm interseting I am clearly both, I really wanna buy Bovril really bad “it” seems like a helpful companion

  2079. Zane was just awesome. But he is a small thought in my mind in caparison to the incredible amount of awesomeness of the leviathan trilogy.

  2080. @ 2056- Oh my word. Oh. My. Barking. Word. Oh my goodness. Oh. My. * tilts head to side and sighs contentedly * My eyes are slightly green! And I WOULD widen my eyes! And I WOULD SAY THAT! I SO WOULD!

  2090. @ 2082- My eyes… hm…. slightly blue around the edges, but they get greener the farther you go. Like the ocean. Then I have like golden flecks around the center of my eyes. You know, like a sunflower?
    I looked at my eyes in the mirror awhile ago.

  2096. @Sorley, I wass whistling when I killed uglies, this way we can all move onto the greener pastures of leviathan

  2100. @2094-killed UGLIES???????????????????? Ask anybody else I WILL DEEFEND UGLIES TILL THE END ( THERE WILL NOT BE AN END BUT IT SOUNDS DRAMATIC)

  2106. @ 2090- thank you! EEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    @ 2092- yeah, I guess so. But Max broke him so Death could finish him off.

  2117. *deep breaths deep breaths don’t overreact about how little UGLIES is in a certian somebody’s mind *cough cough melody* deep breaths*

  2121. *don’t over react Sophie-la its ok just forget it all happened think to yourself WWTD?*

  2152. @ 2145 & 2146- I know. Newkirk and I are PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!! Right? * wiggles eyebrows and nudges you with elbow *

  2166. I just thought of another great song to be in the UGLIES movie!!!!!!:
    Live likewe’re dying by Kris Allen

  2168. sorry for the no space between “like we’re” on comment 2165, I forgot to proofread…

  2174. wait I messed up on the quote, she didnt say “yall” sorry froce of habit like I said I am from the south

  2180. and I will tell you: If Scott-la sopmehow foumd a way to merge the UGLIES and LEVIATHIAN books….. Like the characters!!!!!!!!!!!! he puts all of them into one book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2190. think about it:
    the two couples: David and Tally-wa, Alek and Deryn
    and the rest of the people,
    Newkirk,Ho,Shay-la,Borvil,Dr.barlow, Tachs, etc…

  2193. Last line of my dream book:
    “just then they saw Newkirk and Shay holding hands walking toward”
    I don’t know what they should be walking toward yet

  2194. Oohhh Sophie-la had a thought:Scott-la will you post a chapter about Shay-la and Tally-wa having a fight,like fist fight not word fight?? I just wanna see how it would go and who would win…We all know who would win!

  2203. @2201-it could work but you are right, distant future mixed with past? hhhhuuuummmm the characters together would be cool though

  2206. “We don’t want to hurt you, but we will if we have to,” the girl said, fixing Deryn with a gaze like ice.
    “Not barking likely,” Deryn said drily, unamused by this girl’s haughty manner. “I think it should be me saying that to you.”
    “Now I do want to hurt you,” she bared her teeth, making Deryn laugh.
    “Very scary, girl,” Deryn said. The girl paused mid-snarl and for a moment looked confused. Then she held out her hand.
    “I like you, girl. The name’s Tally. Tally Youngblood.”
    Deryn smiled back. “Deryn. Deryn Sharp.”

  2211. well I figured they have a lot in common people sa they are the “sidekicks” I say they arent so they would be good for eachother but ok 🙂

  2213. “No, I really am serious,” Alek said, trying hopelessly to reason with David.
    “You can’t be!” he sputtered. “Those things don’t exist anymore! Rusty machines are what ended the world!”
    Alek raised an eyebrow. “The world doesn’t look harmed to me.”
    “Because your blundering walkers aren’t polluting the air anymore! Yet you say you have one, and you can pilot a walker at night!”
    “I can!” he cried indignantly.
    “Show me.” David said, effectively putting an end to Alek’s argument. Wherever they were, there was not a single walker in sight.

  2220. @ 2209- You have just earned the first ever “Rachel’s Best Friend Badge”. Congratulations.

  2224. Update: Mr. Fitzroy’s first name is no longer Lance, it is now Sebastian. Sorry, but I have to. It seems that in the books I read, Sebastian is always the evil character. But you aren’t supposed to know he’s evil yet. Well, it’s not the super evil kind of evil, but…yeah. His new name is Sebastian Fitzroy.

  2241. Blisters! So many comments! Took a minute to get down here. It does sound like Mr. Westerfeld has a lisp, and those radio guys do have their funny voices talking with him. I love the musical poster (I can just see Volger saying that). Eli’s sketch looks just like Alek too!

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