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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1560 on: December 15, 2012, 01:28:24 AM »
Written for children, enjoyed by weirdos like us. :P
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1561 on: December 15, 2012, 10:06:40 AM »
but harry potter is not a children's book?
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1562 on: December 16, 2012, 12:05:46 AM »
Not really because the high vocabulary and large amount of page numbers, but Animorphs was written for children and advertised for children too.
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1563 on: December 16, 2012, 07:42:15 AM »
I'm not really sure why that definition came about in the first place.

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1564 on: December 16, 2012, 11:31:01 AM »
In terms of total word count I doubt potter was significantly longer than Animorphs as a series.
If they are calling it novel vs novella (or whatever a paper back that size is called) maybe, but as most the books were series rather than individuals, not a fair comparison.
Potter also was not particularly high vocabulary, a high number of big adjectives sure, but not above standard middle school levels. Animorph's was admittedly a grade or two lower, but not so much to remove from the category.
And finally, they both, and all the other books I saw there fell in the same categories at the stories: young adult. I don't recall HP ever being marketed to an older audience, but once the films started coming it was seen as a "family" thing, and since it took them near ten years to come out, they had the carry over, but still a single adult 35 yro in 2007 with Deathly hallows was seen as reading a youth book. Just being common place doesn't up it's level of difficultly   
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1565 on: December 19, 2012, 10:54:44 PM »
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1566 on: December 20, 2012, 11:36:50 AM »
Before the invasion, did yeerks ever have parties in yeerk pools? Did they match into trio's and swim? Do yeerks go around hitting on random members of their species like humans?
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1567 on: December 22, 2012, 03:10:26 AM »
Guess that would've been difficult.. They were blind, right? ::)

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1568 on: December 22, 2012, 11:24:23 AM »
well lots of animals can't see, they still find and court in their own ways.

So from the biological stand point, I imagine there was something along those lines, but from the story point I doubt it. Party slugs aren't evil (see Slurms Mckenzie), and so I doubt they'd make that a secret character aspect for the bad guys
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1569 on: December 23, 2012, 12:20:50 AM »
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1570 on: December 24, 2012, 02:01:11 PM »
I just got a review for an Animorphs fanfic on ff.net telling me where "the thought speak symbols that K. A. uses" are on the keyboard. Methinks someone is new to Animorphs fanfics on ff.net.
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1571 on: December 25, 2012, 03:25:57 AM »
Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.

Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1572 on: December 25, 2012, 07:27:59 PM »
Something is telling me Saffa is also new to fanfiction.net's use of < and >... Kidding
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1573 on: December 31, 2012, 02:31:23 AM »
Got a big book on animals from the Smithsonian. Now attempting to identify the exact species for the morphs used in Animorphs. Or at least the ones they got from the barn. Or just... not the Gardens.

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #1574 on: December 31, 2012, 07:03:11 AM »
Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.

Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!

Oh no, they knew where they were. They were telling ME where they were, because somehow they never noticed that everyone on fanfiction.net uses an alternative due to < and > being html symbols, and thus don't work on the site.
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