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Uglies is a 2005 dystopian novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a futuristic post-scarcity world in which everyone is considered an "Ugly" until they are then turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16.
Uglies is a book series by Scott Westerfeld for young adults. Westerfeld originally intended for Uglies to be a trilogy. However, after publishing the series' first three novels, Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, he ultimately wrote an additional fourth book, Extras. This fourth book is dedicated "[t]o everyone who wrote to me to reveal the ...
Scott Westerfield's 'Uglies' book is now a Netflix movie. Here's a round-up of all the notable differences between the book and the film.
The third novel in the Uglies series begins two months after events in Pretties in which Tally Youngblood has become a member of an elite group of "Specials," surgically enhanced super-humans, called the Cutters, who were founded by Shay. She invented the use of ritual self-harm to become "bubbly" and clear-headed in spite of brain lesions used ...
What’s the price of beauty? “Uglies,” a new Netflix movie, asks that question — and, indeed, there is a price. The movie, starring Joey King, is based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 novel of ...
But in the realm of “Uglies,” director McG’s (“Charlie’s Angels”) halfhearted screen adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 young-adult novel, her character Tally Youngblood’s …
A review in Horn Book Magazine said that while Pretties "suffers from some typical middle-book problems" as the second installment in a trilogy, "the world Westerfeld creates is both appealing and appalling; the pace moves quickly with twists; and Tally is a memorable, believable character".
Netflix enlisted some of Hollywood’s hottest names to bring the beloved book Uglies to life. Joey King stars as Tally Youngblood in the new movie — based on author Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 ...