pre-read


i hate dystopian
anyways, 1 star prediction 🤗

post-read

not as bad as anticipated but still pretty bad. boring, vapid, and lacking substance.
there’s a severe absence of creativity. like “uglies”, “pretties”, “littlies”, “UGLYVILLE” I kid you not, that’s the name of the town the uglies live in. crazy right? like at least try my guy.

I fear to encounter scott irl.

Nope, couldn’t finish it. Sigh. I thought I was going to like this one. It started off fine and all. And then everything fell apart. Yes, that dramatic.Am I the only one who was deeply offended by this piece of crap ? This book is wrong, wrong, wrong.The writing itself isn’t particularly… well, isn’t anything really. But this is supposed to be a book about beauty with a big B and the writing doesn’t do justice to the theme. I’d even call it Ugly. The characters are stereotyped. Tally is a brainw...

I need to never run into Scott Westerfeld down a dark alley, or during a Civil War reenactment, or at Charlton Heston's house, or wherever. My deep desire not to be arrested for murder would have an epic battle with my need to reach for a weapon when I see his stupid face. In all fairness, as you see, I coughed up three stars for this book, so I will clarify that my empty threatening is really directed toward Pretties and Specials (books two and three in this series). I'm posting this review on ...

I’ve only seen one episode of The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a woman undergoes a battery of surgeries to look normal. At the end of the episode, viewers learn that this latest surgery has failed: the woman is still hideous. Except that to the audience she is beautiful. Online research led me to another episode where teenagers are surgically altered to live longer and conform to a unified standard of beauty (based on a limited number of acceptable “models”). “Uglies,” Scott Westerfeld’s dyst...

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“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.” In Tally Youngblood's society, everyone obtains absolute physical perfection - the perfect skin, hair, eyes, literally everything. At least, after you turn sixteen and undergo the right operations.Tally, at age 15, is an Ugly right now but after her birthday, she will get to become Pretty. She can then move out of the Ugly Dorms and into New Pretty Town. It's all she wants.After all, who in their right mind would choose to remain Ugly? A...

it's the way this book had a death grip on middle schoolers everywhere, for me.also i was absolutely pretending that i would have been, like, an anti-plastic surgery rebel if i existed in this world, where in actuality i would have been 100% team sculpt my bones and change my face and implant a hoverboard into my ankles or whatever. in fact, on the off chance that this series was a test put out into the minds of 13 year olds by the government, write me down as "pro authoritarian government chang...

ive read this book/series a handful of times over the past decade or so and have somehow never written a review for it. time to fix that. although some of my feelings have changed as ive gotten older, its impossible to get rid of the strong feeling of nostalgia this evokes each time i pick up the book. what drew me to this story when i was a teenager still remains as an adult. i love how this personifies the notion that true beauty is who you are as a person, not what you look like. yes, this is...

Do you know that feeling, when you really want to punch a character in the face? Well, Tally Youngblood, you must be grateful that I can't see your face.


Now I should stop the rant... the book itself was a quick read, but I don't get the hype. Enjoyable, yes. Good, not that much. I'm not really sure if I'll ever finish this series. Maybe one day if I'm actually bored.

So my wife and I occasionally swap books which may seem a little kooky. However, you have to keep things spicy when you’ve been married as long as we have and since nipple showers with hot candle wax make me break out into shouts of “FUCKARELLA THAT HURTS” we needed some alternative sizzle. So she hooks me up with this little philly of a novel while I matched her with The Lies of Locke Lamora. Well…my wife loved the book I set her up with….as I knew she would because it is all over awesome. Of c...