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A review by booksong
Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
3.0
A fun and interesting companion to the Uglies series that any fan probably wants to read. It's not the kind of thing you'd want to waste money on unless you're hard-core, but pick it up from a library, or just read it right in the bookstore. It's short enough.
In these pages, Scott Westerfeld authors his own insider's guide to the world he created, which is great for a lot of reasons. One, it doesn't get any better than when the author tells you about his own thought processes, ideas, and hidden meanings. Also, you get a wonderful feel for Westerfeld as a person, and he seems like a great guy with a sense of humor, really dedicated to his characters, universe, and writing in general.
In this guide, you'll find maps, histories of both the Rusties and Tally's world, the science behind hoverboards and nanos, the phenomenons of ideal beauty, cliques, and plastic surgery, meanings behind the names of characters, the ins-and-outs of the series' slang language, and various other tidbits that are just cool to know (like the connections between each books' "last words" and the real-world Radical Honesty cult).
Probably one of the better companion guides out there.
In these pages, Scott Westerfeld authors his own insider's guide to the world he created, which is great for a lot of reasons. One, it doesn't get any better than when the author tells you about his own thought processes, ideas, and hidden meanings. Also, you get a wonderful feel for Westerfeld as a person, and he seems like a great guy with a sense of humor, really dedicated to his characters, universe, and writing in general.
In this guide, you'll find maps, histories of both the Rusties and Tally's world, the science behind hoverboards and nanos, the phenomenons of ideal beauty, cliques, and plastic surgery, meanings behind the names of characters, the ins-and-outs of the series' slang language, and various other tidbits that are just cool to know (like the connections between each books' "last words" and the real-world Radical Honesty cult).
Probably one of the better companion guides out there.