Okay, so I'm

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Uglies
Okay, so I'm...

Okay, so I'm just wondering if this series bothered anyone else. I loved it, it's like my favorite series, but I really hated when Zane died. i couldn't believe the author made Tally split up with David, then cause Zane to die. Of course it was an accident but...      And they altered her mind! Made her think that she was better than everyone else! That seriously bothered me. I kind of wanted to kill the book. Does anyone know how many operations she got? It seems like a lot, but I can only really remember that she got 2. Of course that doesn't count the times that she changed herself without any operations. I haven't read Extras yet, but I will have finished it by the end of the week. I read one a day for the past few days. I'm just ranting, aren't I? I just had to let that out. I LOVE this series, but it has problems.

submitted by Jessica, age 12
(January 9, 2010 - 11:40 pm)

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I love those books! Yeah, the series has problems, but that's what makes it good. It makes you think! Books where everybody is perfect and all the people live in perfects worlds are okay, but they can be boring. Books that aren't perfect are way more realistic. :)

submitted by Maddy, age 15, OR
(January 11, 2010 - 12:22 pm)

Good point. I think that that is what I liked about it. I don't really like happy endings that much. I mean, how often do people actually get happy endings? Oh, and I don't get why so many people are totally ignoring this thread...Have they really not read the series? I feel bad for them! Are you interested in doing a roleplay of Uglies?

submitted by Jessica, age 12, The Kingdom of
(January 12, 2010 - 8:52 pm)

Out, thread, out! Out of the back!

submitted by TOP, Top of the chat
(January 12, 2010 - 1:12 pm)

May I just point out that it's a dystopian series? I mean, it's a world where everyone gets turned into pretty eggheads when they turn sixteen and there's a secret police force with built-in superpowers who will ruthlessly hunt you down and obliterate you if you try to exercise free will. It's supposed to be wrong and mildly creepy. That's what dystopias are *for*. 

 

submitted by TNÖ, age 16, Deep Space
(January 12, 2010 - 9:07 pm)

I know...I kind of liked that morbid evil touch, because it makes it even harder for the main characters to exercise free will and thinking, and yet they do it anyway.

submitted by Jessica, age 12, the kingdom of
(January 17, 2010 - 12:49 am)