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None. Kids books suck. Except Animorphs. But Cassie was the Egwene of the series. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 29/03/2010 03:56:34 AM
In case you don't know, Animorphs is a sci-fi series targeted mainly at elementary/middle school students about five kids who are given the power to change into animals by an alien in order to fight a secret invasion of Earth by other, mind-controlling aliens. I read it back when I was ten years old, and a few weeks ago I picked up the first book at the library for nostalgia's sake. I was totally surprised to find that, instead of being a children's series, this is one of the darkest, most mature handlings of war that I've ever read.

Seriously, there's a book where a 13-year-old kid wrestles with the decision of whether or not to kill his own family (who have been taken by the aliens) in order to save himself and his friends, who are the only hope humanity has, but is unable to when the time comes, so his friends lose faith in him and marginalize him because they don't think he's ruthless enough for this war.


Which one was that? It has been so long since I read them I cannot recall that incident, though just last weekend I shocked my younger brother (who was in the appropriate age bracket when they were being published and got me into Animorphs in the first place) by being able to remember the name of the evil vice-principal's daughter.

Interesting fact: The girl who played Rachel on the TV adaptation was on the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother. The current season of How I Met Your Mother is the worst thing I have ever seen that actress in, including the Animorphs TV series, a Supernatural episode (one of the lamer ones), a direct to video sequal to I Know What You Did Last Summer, and a direct to video horror flick called "Infestation" that was basically a zombie movie with giant bugs and the bad guy from the Wolverine movie and the latest Mel Gibson revengecop flick.
Cannoli
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I'm reading the Animorphs series... - 28/03/2010 10:21:11 AM 905 Views
Re: I loved those books. - 28/03/2010 11:47:31 AM 692 Views
It's an enjoyable series - 28/03/2010 12:41:25 PM 886 Views
i never read the end of animorphs - 28/03/2010 03:28:13 PM 649 Views
I think I was the one who started the discussion at wotmania. - 28/03/2010 07:09:24 PM 768 Views
Naah, I took the ending as a clean cut ("spoiler," I guess) - 28/03/2010 07:36:31 PM 626 Views
Re: Naah, I took the ending as a clean cut ("spoiler," I guess) - 28/03/2010 09:54:19 PM 762 Views
Well they do have what basically amounts to a god on their side. - 29/03/2010 07:46:22 PM 558 Views
I didn't say that they shouldn't. - 30/03/2010 05:48:49 AM 672 Views
I think that discussion made me reread them as well. Found a nice site for Animorphs ebooks. - 29/03/2010 07:48:29 PM 746 Views
David himself was pretty horrifying at times - 29/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 588 Views
Firefox can be dumb. - 30/03/2010 03:11:11 AM 752 Views
nonsense,why would it lose its humor? - 30/03/2010 03:48:14 PM 636 Views
He means that it wouldn't be the same kind of humor. - 30/03/2010 03:51:52 PM 762 Views
true. - 30/03/2010 04:58:40 PM 661 Views
Nah.... nothing can beat some of the Ax exchanges. - 31/03/2010 01:37:02 AM 613 Views
I think you're missing my point - 31/03/2010 02:30:13 AM 561 Views
Maybe. - 31/03/2010 03:01:48 AM 697 Views
I thought the Artemis Fowl books were decent - 28/03/2010 12:52:03 PM 626 Views
None. Kids books suck. Except Animorphs. But Cassie was the Egwene of the series. - 29/03/2010 03:56:34 AM 788 Views
I agree, Cassie is seriously grating on my nerves - 29/03/2010 05:24:32 AM 661 Views
Animorphs were pretty good. - 29/03/2010 06:49:11 AM 602 Views
I really think I liked the backstory books the most, actually *NM* - 29/03/2010 04:56:46 PM 334 Views
Definitely! *NM* - 30/03/2010 10:20:46 PM 307 Views
I loved the Animorphs. - 29/03/2010 10:24:58 AM 711 Views
i saw Jake turn into a lion. - 29/03/2010 04:57:25 PM 625 Views
I think I watched it once. - 29/03/2010 07:49:11 PM 646 Views
I don't have anything to add other than Animorphs rocks, hard. - 30/03/2010 06:08:07 AM 558 Views
Most of the series was written by ghostwriters. *NM* - 30/03/2010 03:52:12 PM 332 Views
Yup, I know. Some were better than others is all - 30/03/2010 05:34:07 PM 552 Views
you and I have had this conversation before, I feel. - 02/04/2010 11:21:07 PM 605 Views

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