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Anonymous
So I've been rereading Animorphs this summer. Despite the outdated pop culture references, this series is holding up pretty well. Plus, I'm learning new things about animals. My grown ass still loves these books. Educational, entertaining, and awesome. I kinda wish Andalites were real.
>> Anonymous
weren't those the books with the tiny pictures in the corner
and you had to flip the pages to see a animation
>> Anonymous
And then they all died. Or, all ended in cliffhanger.
>> Anonymous
>>288380
These are the ones, yeah.
>> Anonymous
OP read the andolite chronicles and the hork bajiir (sp) chronicles. good shit
oh and andolites are real you just have to BELIEVE
>> Anonymous
>>288385
I've read every one of them, and I still own most of the books. I gave a few away to my younger cousin, but her parents wouldn't let her read them because they thought kids turning into animals was demonic.

A perfect waste of 5 books AND the 3rd Megamorphs.
>> Anonymous
>>288368

Haha, memories. It's a decent series - Applegate sure shot those out pretty quick. Some 50 or 60 books in a few years, right?

The Hork-Bajir chronicles were pretty awesome - the rest was upper-level meh.
>> Anonymous
>>288391
Wow... her parents sound like idiots.
>> Anonymous
These books were good from a fiction perspective but instilled shitty misconceptions about science into our generation, spawned millions of furries, and made it impossible for anyone to ever write about human to animal transformation again and not be compared to this
>> tigerfeather !CrwtTbFNxQ
>>288445
My friend's parents wouldn't let her read them either. She also couldn't watch Sailor Moon because "using crystals and having moons on your forehead" were some sort of undercover work from Satan himself to get us to turn into witches. Stupid Super Christians.
>> Anonymous
>>288423
She had a ton of ghostwriters dude...
>> Anonymous
What science misconceptions? All I see is kids turning into animals, goddammit
>> Anonymous
>>288470
Yeah. Considering the series is science fiction, I never fooled myself into thinking all the shit they were doing was real.
>> Anonymous
I loved that series as a kid. I think I had them all.
>> Anonymous
Better than cat macros, that's for sure.
>> Anonymous
it was a good show too
>> Anonymous
>>288597
I don't know about that. The TV was kinda lame, and the guy who played Marco couldn't act for shit. Not to mention the girl they had playing Cassie wasn't nearly black enough.
>> Anonymous
Fuck yeah dude. I still have all of them in a box in my garage. I keep saying I'm gonna pull them out and re-read them all.

I miss Ax :( and Tobias
>> Anonymous
>>288633
Tobias was emo before emo was fucking annoying. He kinda had a reason to be, though.
>> Judas, The Iscariot Sniper !1EVr3uyPJI
Animorphs is like furry, Minus the porn, and minus the stupid bullshit.
>> Anonymous
>>288646
So...it's not furry at all, then?
>> Anonymous
loved it. i still have them all. I remember I ordered them through the school as a kid and would check everyday to see if my book had come in.
>> Anonymous
god I Loved these when I was like 9. Unfortunately, I threw away the 30 books I read before I gave up. Honestly, it's only like the first 7 or so that are worthwhile.
>> HyperCutter !!fZ983tH9aUp
>>288385
Also the Ellimist Chronicles (aka the tale of how a birdman became God).
>> Anonymous
I remember crying like a twat while reading the last book. And I was almost in college at the time. I should have been ashamed, but I wasn't.
>> Anonymous
Tobias was my favorite. :3
>> Anonymous
Tobias was the only cool person in there. Birds are awesome
>> Anonymous
Thread has caused me to reread volume 1 for the first time in probably 10 years. Man, it all seems so much more stupid now. I mean, back when I read it, the writing just didn't seem so childish.
It's so weird going back to something I took to seriously and it just seems so stupid now...but some reason I still love it anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>289626
Reread the book where Tobias gets tortured. The part where he actually tells us he literally shit himself from the pain has stuck with me all these years.
>> Anonymous
>>289629

Jesus fucking Christ. That was fucking intense. I mean, these were books for children and they had one of the most graphic psychological torture scenes I have ever read in them. And there was no bullshit in it. The teenage kid didn't manage to resist all of torture, they fucking BROKE him. He was goddamn trying to give up the information his torturer wanted but he was either too weak for her to hear him or she was too bat-shit insane to care.

And I always rationalized it as a kid. "Sure he is stuck as a bird and has to live as a part of the food chain on a daily basis and he was tortured. But once the war is over he can turn back into a human and he has Rachel." WRONG. No happy endings for Tobias. Or for Rachel. Or Ax. Or even for Jake. Cassie is the only one who gets to lead a good life and even then I'm sure that jack-ass Drode was coming into her dreams every night and fucking with were for letting Jake go. FUCK. This series was depressing. The kids all ended up with all sorts of problems like being torture, enslaved, killing POWs, becoming shell-shocked like so many other war vets, manipulating and exploiting the handicapped, fratricide, mental illness and dealing with the loss of loved ones when it was your own damn fault they died. And then a whole slew more problems that could only arise in science fiction like the battle for the ethical high-ground between predatory and parasitic species and even and entire species being given a shit hand and being eternally hungry, cannibalistic monsters.
>> Mr. Bubbles !!DLJ3bQ7yunJ
I still have this whole series in my basement.
>> Anonymous
>>289629
>>289650
Yeah, Animorphs wasn't the cutesy little kids' scifi series a lot of people tried to make it out to be. Upon rereading these books, I've picked up on so much more stuff that I missed when I was a kid. Like Jake's early signs of PTSD, for instance. It was hinted at way before we were finally told that's what was wrong with him. Tobias's torture...my goodness. I'm surprised Scholastic even allowed that to make it to print. I can imagine some little 3rd grader having issues after reading that book. Hell, I was in high school, and I had some problems getting through it. :/

Harry Potter mania ultimately stole Animorphs' thunder, but I think the series should be remembered for the awesome reading that it was.
>> Anonymous
>>289650
Weird, I don't remember any of that. I think I stopped reading them 30 volumes in. What volume was that?
>> Anonymous
>>289650
Oh god I remember that torture part...well, remember skipping over it because I was super young and it made me sick to my stomach. Every time I think about animorphs now I regret never reading that part just because I feel like I missed something crucial. Wish I could find it somewhere.
>> Anonymous
>>289798
You should have hung in there a little longer. It was #33.

The torture stuff was made even worse when you take Tobias's childhood into account. All together it was just...damn.
>> Anonymous
I don't think I finished the series and it's been so long since I read any of them, but I'll never forget finding the first book at a BX and thinking, hey, a green anole, we have these all over the place at my house, maybe this will be interesting. I also won't forget the kind of sick sadness that I felt reading most of the books. How very depressing.

Now I want to go back and read them all again, though. Finish what I started. :<
>> Anonymous
>>289820
Me too...I wonder if you can read them online somewhere.
>> Jetto
Take out the Ellimist/Kyrak/Drode shit
Get rid of all time travel
Rewrite the WTF ending/final book

whats left? Kickass

Info for those who care

http://members.tripod.com/ani_vortex/encyp.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_(Animorphs)
>> Anonymous
>>289650
>>289629

Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly turn to page 50...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3290985/Animorphs-33-The-Illusion
>> Anonymous
>>289851

You can't just get rid of the Ellimist/Cryak dynamic. It adds an entire extra layer of GRIMDARK to the series. The Animorphs knew that no matter what they did and no matter how they suffered, they were only game pieces to some incomprehensibly larger and more advanced God-like beings that treated all of existence as a game.
>> Anonymous
I remember that series.. I loved it and always awaited the next one coming out eagerly. Unfortunately I live in a backwater hick town where the only book store closed down and I had no way to finish the series when I was interested in it. I loved the Hork bajir chronicles.. But yeah, the TV series was utter shit. I wish I knew what happened in the end though, I never made it there.
>> Anonymous
>>289934
A lot of older fans will occasionally sell off books. Check eBay or the Animorphs LJ community. Even public libraries might be able to help you. I'm not sure if the series is out of print or not, though.
>> Anonymous
OH MY FUCK
Animorphs on my 4chan. My life is complete now. I STILL loves these books. Ending was pure shit but the ride before was great.
>> Anonymous
>>289934
Can you imagine how loud I screamed in the theater when the X-men movies came out? I was like "OMG WTF Iceman is Jake!"
>> Anonymous
>>290200
Bump for useful information.
>> Anonymous
>>290200
Holy shit awesome. Have an internet.
>> Anonymous
>>289934

oh my god. I thought the EXACT same thing when I saw X Men, I was all wtf that's Jake?

I got pretty far into the series but made the mistake of reading the wiki article on it, which pretty much killed my curiosity for the ending. That is such a crap ending for the series. Pretty much everything about it irks me. Bleh.
>> Anonymous
>>290341
When I'm reading the books now, I can't help but think, "Except for Cassie, they're all most likely dead, killed by The One. ;_;" Then I lol thinking about Neo killing the Animorphs, and I forget about it until I remember they're dead again.
>> Anonymous
TSEEEEEER!
>> MiMi
So I went camping up in Point Reyes this past weekend ...

I heard "TSSEEEEEEERR" and instantly thought "red-tailed hawk". I hadn't read past .. fuck, probably #25? #28? and not for at least five years, because I remember selling some of my old volumes in a garage sale.

THANK YOU, ANIMORPHS. WITHOUT YOU I WOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE SOUND A RED-TAIL MAKES.
>> Anonymous
Because everyone knows that Rachel deserves to live...

http://members.shaw.ca/jcmlott/

Animorphs: The Alternative Ending.
>> Anonymous
>>290439
>THANK YOU, ANIMORPHS. WITHOUT YOU I WOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE SOUND A RED-TAIL MAKES.

I lol'd because it's so true.
>> Anonymous
>>290540

Fuck no. Rachel had to die. She had to. You know why? Because she enjoyed KILLING things. It wasn't how she started out at the beginning of the series, but thats what she turned into. What the fuck was she supposed to do after the war was over? She spent her teenage years killing things and eventually enjoying it. That is goddamn psychopathic behavior.

No branch of the armed forces would have taken her without discharging her a little while later because of her inability to follow orders. And without being in the armed forces she couldn't fight things. And if she couldn't fight things she wouldn't be happy.

I remember that after reading the issue where Cryak tries to turn her into one his murderous abominations and David comes back, I thought that when everything was over the only way for her to be happy is to morph a female red-tail and become a nothlit with Tobias.
>> Anonymous
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>>290540
I'm sorry, but no. This cover alone makes the idea look like shit.
>> Anonymous
>>289878
Jesus, 50 straight pages of torture, not to mention the scene where the good guys manage to trick their opponents into feeding each other slowly, alive, to monstrous giant centipedes. Good times.

Thinking back on these books I'd assumed they'd be total crap, children's fare, not worth a second look (or a first for that matter, even for a kid). But reading back on that book... obviously it could be much better, but it's well done. Good stuff to give your kids, or hell even worth reading again if you're bored and have 45 minutes to kill.

>>288385
All the chronicles shit was good, Ellimist, too. That was kinda my favorite, actually, especially as a kid.
>> Anonymous
>>290625
>I thought that when everything was over the only way for her to be happy is to morph a female red-tail and become a nothlit with Tobias.
Why couldn't she just do that?

I loved the horrible, tragic endings by the way. (with just a tiny spark of hope and inspiration at the very end) These books could definitely be redone into an awesome television or movie series. Honestly, how many would it take to do it justice? No more than the Harry Potter series will end up with. Then they can do the Chronicles books as spin-offs, as well. We may not have had the special effects tech back in the day to make it work, but we sure as hell do now.
>> Anonymous
>These books could definitely be redone into an awesome television or movie series.

I'd rather a movie series because the TV series lacked the budget necessary to do justice to the stories. Plus, I could never understand why they cast a brunet as Tobias, a light-skinned girl for dark-skinned Cassie, and that non-acting retard for Marco. Jake and Rachel were the only characters they got close to right.
>> Anonymous
FWAAAAP!

That was Ax's tail blade.
>> Anonymous
Just finished the whole series (thanks /an/) and while the LOL LOOK HOW EDGY writing got on my nerves after the first 2 books, they were pretty fucked up for being a children's series. I guess that's why my brother never managed to get through 'em when we were kids.
>> Anonymous
>>291345
Yeah, I've also been mowing down the books this summer, amazed at how quickly I can read them now. Some are WTF THAT WAS STUPID, but others leave me wondering how on earth they were approved for a children's series. I'm reading them out of order, but I finished the one about the Helmacrons last night, and while it was kinda LOLworthy, there's this part where Cassie describes a Helmacron's individual cells exploding after being hit with a Dracon beam. Graphic.

I also read one last night where half of Marco's face got sliced off and ended up on the floor. I had to put the book down and go get some water.
>> Anonymous
>>291345
That style of writing used angered me too. It's like, if these kids really are "writing" their individual stories, they wouldn't choose the EXACT same writing style. I know that's kind of getting nitpicky for a kid's series, but still.
>> Anonymous
One of the lulziest parts of the series was when Marco went, "You know when you'll see a girl who is good looking from far off but when you get closer it turns out she's a skank?"

I thought these kids were supposed to be like 10 so that was kinda a lolwut moment for me.
>> Anonymous
>>291352
They were at least 12- or 13-years-old when the series started. They were all in junior high.
>> Anonymous
>>291488
I just started reading them again - i think they're at least 14 because in one of the books Rachel's like "a couple years ago on *some character's* 12th birthday etc". So unless the authors are retarded then they should be 14ish?
>> Anonymous
Fuck. These books are what made me scared of ants. As well as most other hive insects. When they morphed ants and termites and they all got freaked the fuck out when they lost control of the morph and became mindless drones. That was some scary shit.

What was even worse was when they found out that animals that touched the morphing cube could morph as well. An ant walked on the cube and Casey picked it up and shooed it away. It apparently acquired her and started to morph her. It then became a terrifying, shrieking half-human monster that was going insane because it had never experience free will before. And then there was that Buffalo that acquired Chapman. Holy crap that was one of the most mind-fuck issues there ever was.
>> Anonymous
>>291497
Which book was that? I want to reread it now.
>> Anonymous
>>291497
That does not really make sense, The first part, second part does. Ants are democratic, it's not like they are all mind controlled by queens. They simply have no will to do anything against he benifit of the whole, although there are some ant species that enslave other ant colonys.
>> Anonymous
>>291525

I think it was supposed be mind control or anything, I think it was that the ant mind has incredibly powerful instincts to obey the hive that the Animorphs had a very hard time controlling themselves. Also, they were almost completely torn apart by ants from a rival colony. Once they got out of morph they were freaked the fuck out by how intense ants were.
>> Anonymous
>>291538
Marco got ripped in half, IIRC.
>> HyperCutter !!fZ983tH9aUp
>>291518
book #39.
>> Anonymous
>>292203
Thanks.
>> Anonymous
>>291881
If i remember correctly it sounds like marco gets a shitkicking every other book. isn't it in one of them they're dolphins and he gets attacked my a shark and his tail ripped off?