Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: esplin on June 11, 2008, 10:49:15 PM
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Is the best animorphs book of them all in my oponion, Ive read it over 20 times and I still get freaked out chills when I read about Arbon being stuck as a taxxon.
But the best pages in the book are chapter 22 pg 148 and 149.
Who cant relate with driving a mustang with the top down, sitting next your pretty blonde signifigant other, and feeling some Dr. Pepper running up your hoof.
EDIT: I almost forgot. I CANT GET NO, SASTISFACTOIN
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If only it could have been any car but a ford.....
I can totally relate to the dr. pepper running up the hoof though. lol
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FORD = First On Race Day
And the mustang had better be a GT :)
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If only it could have been any car but a ford.....
I can totally relate to the dr. pepper running up the hoof though. lol
you can have a corvette if you want, but it was the car in the ACs, id rather have a bugatti or an ascari but thats just me :]
I just love this book (im reading it now) its the perfect balance of freaky, action packed, and touching.
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I just love this book (im reading it now) its the perfect balance of freaky, action packed, and touching.
On that I will agree
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Visser is awesome too, i like all of the chronicle books
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I actually didnt like the ellimist chronicles all that much, I mean so much was just left unanswered. I was hoping we would learn a bout the time matrix or some more about the crayak or how the game for earth specifically had started, I wanted to know why chapman had been brought back in the andalite chronicles or maybe what string of events in time had really led to the animorphs being the ones fighting for the human race since obviously he was behind that to some extent. I dont know, it just didnt reach what I had built it up in my mind that it was going to be...
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yeah, when it was ending it felt like it was only half written to me.
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yeah, when it was ending it felt like it was only half written to me.
I kinda get what you mean, but in that case the "whole story" would've been huge! :P
If I really had to pick a favourite Animorphs book, then it would be The Andalite Chronicles. Elfangor is an awesome narrator, and I agree that it probably has all the best action, humour, plot line and emotion in the series. They should make a movie out of it, simply just for us all to see Elfangor driving across the Taxxon world with music in his ears and brown bubbling water (Dr. Pepper!) in his hooves! 8)
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lol yeah i konw its such a great scene, and then he gets sucked into the living hive from underneath.
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Yeah, one of the greatest books, in my opinion.
I loved it so much that I asked my aunt to get it for me(I have absolutely no money), and she did.
And, I thought that scene with elfangor and the mustang was funny, even though the situation he was in was not, but still, loved it.
I'm going to reread the book for like the twenty fifth time.
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ive only got it in ebook format, i wish i had the real thing.
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Dude, my brother brought me this book from his school and I was so excited. I read it and it is definitely one of the best Animorphs books ever.
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this was definitely one of my favourite animorphs books
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FORD = First On Race Day
And the mustang had better be a GT :)
I went to my formal in a GT :)
I really liked this book as well!
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did you have dr pepper running up your hoof?
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FORD = First On Race Day
And the mustang had better be a GT :)
Another thing I liked about the book, my favorite car is the Mustang.
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IMO the two greatest Ani books are AC and HBC.
I love AC because you see that Elfangor wasn't always this great mystical perfect Andalite. He made mistakes. He was "human" (well, not human, but you know what I mean....). In fact, some of his mistakes were doozies. But he was still a good person underneath it all, who didn't compromise his morals too much despite the fact that his situation was the crap of all crap.
The scene that gives me chills is the moment Elfangor realizes Alloran has been infested and he has to replicate Arbron's three shots. The creation of The Abomination.
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idk when elfangor tells abron to demorph and hes like, i wish i could, it totally freaks me out.
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Yeah... it was even worse than Tobias being stuck... I mean, stuck as a Taxxon? Oh, man... i can't imagine the years of horror Arbon experienced....
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hes got major balls, not only was he stuck, he lived out a full taxxon life.
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Not only did he get stuck and live out a full taxxon life, but he did so productively. He didn't just give in and spend his days gorging on meat. He continued to find ways to fight the Yeerks.
Mad props to Arbron, man.
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hes a great animorphs character in my oponion, one of the strongest we dont see much of
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Yeah, I really wish KA had been able to write a Taxxon Chronicles. That would have definitely been an interesting read.
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Yeah, I really wish KA had been able to write a Taxxon Chronicles. That would have definitely been an interesting read.
I heard she was planning to ages ago, but that was probably just a rumour.
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no, she was planning to, but couldn't come up with an idea.
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id rather learn more about crayak then the taxxons, the pemalites wouldnt be so bad, i guess it would be cool to see what made the taxxons evolve the way they did, i could probally guess like multiple famines or something like that. Everyone hates taxxons though, a chronicles could make you feel bad for them if they deserve it, i guess she just needed some aliens for us to hate.
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One of the reasons I liked the series is that as it progresses, it shows us how nothing in life is black and white, good and evil. Originally, the Yeerks, Taxxons and even the Hork-Bajir (to a lesser extent) are portrayed as the evil bad guys that we have to wipe out.
However, book 13 is proof that the Hork-Bajir are in fact a peaceful race enslaved by the Yeerks. Book 19 shows us that not even all the Yeerks are evil, as some of them refuse to take hosts. The Andalite chronicles then tells us that some of the Taxxons resisted their hunger and Yeerk rule.
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and starting with book 18 (I think. or was it #8), it shows the andalites aren't just the big heroes of the galaxy
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and starting with book 18 (I think. or was it #8), it shows the andalites aren't just the big heroes of the galaxy
Technically both. Book 8 is when we find out that the Andalites gave the Yeerks advanced technology, and book 18 is when we discover that even some Andalites can be bad guys.
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yeah theres alot of busting the andalites down in animorphs
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in fact, of all the species in the animorphs world that I hate most, the andalites come second. and are only beaten by the helmacrons.
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Yeah once the andalites planned on destroying earth in an attempt to destroy the yeerks I started disliking them quite a bit though I only felt that way because it was against earth I didnt seem to mind them attacking other creatures controlled by yeerks throughout the series. Moral debates, they just get so confusing
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Yeah I admit that certain Andalites got damn annoying as the series went on, but remember that the Andalite public had no idea what the military was planning. In fact, I'd bet that most of the military didn't know about the plan to destroy Earth either. So it was just a few of the higher up guys in the military that were to blame.
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its like that most of the time
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The Andalite military sucks. I'm sure they aren't all that arrogant and deceitful, though. Surely some civilians are good?
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Well Elfangor and Ax turned out well, and the two Andalites who crashed on Earth (book 40) were decent guys. Also mentioned in book 33 when Tobias first morphs Ax, is that Andalites are optimistic by nature. This suggests that they are naturally a peaceful race, and that the arrogance has been brought on by years of war (and guilt due to them accidentally starting that war).
The Andalite Chronicles supports this when it says that Alloran used to be a friendly person who used to make people laugh, but he was hardened by war.
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theyre good beings as a whole, but everyone has their darkside, I would assume that most of the civillians unaware of the trials of war are a tad less arrogant then the warriors :]
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Marco pointed out in Book 54 that Andalite civilians are slightly less arrogant than their military dudes. Although Marco could be sarcastic at the time.... =P
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lol you quoted my rant about the end of the series!
that made my day really.
yeah thats the problem with marco, i always wonder if hes being serious or not. The impression i got for that line was that they were about | | that much less arrogant :]
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I just read #54 (because I was bored) and marco says that andalite civilans are more decent. His exact words were:
Andalite civilians are about three degrees more humble and lovable than the Andalite warriors we'd always met.
although I'm not quite sure how much three degrees is...
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@Espilin:
It's okay to let it be my sig temporarily, right? At least until I get a real one... :P
Anyway, I think Marco was pretty sarcastic. I bet it isn't much of a difference, except that unlike warriors, the civilians are a tad more trusting....
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@Espilin:
It's okay to let it be my sig temporarily, right? At least until I get a real one... :P
Anyway, I think Marco was pretty sarcastic. I bet it isn't much of a difference, except that unlike warriors, the civilians are a tad more trusting....
im honored really feel free to use it.
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yea the optomistic nature seems to be contradictory to everything else we know about andalites, i guess because of the trouble it got them into maybe they feel ashamed about it or something, so the warriors compensate by being arrogant
maybe its that civilian andalites dont really have interaction with other species, i assume, seeing as how its so difficult for the yeerks to infiltrate the homeland i always assumed things were locked up pretty tight, and i cant really see them trading with another species and admitting that they can do something better than them haha
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Has anyone heard about the animorph chronicles being put into 3 separate books. I heard there were specials versions for a book club and I wanted to see the covers they made for them.
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no ive never heard about that, I would love to see them though.
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i LOVED the Andalite Chronicles. my favorite chronicle. Elfangor is my favorite non-animorph character and i was so excited to have a book narrated by him. one of if not the best books in the series.
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The thing about the Andalite civilians that Marco mentions in the last book is that this is probably just the really rich ones. I mean, space travel can't be cheap, and if zero space happens to shift along the way, then you could be looking at a really long flight. Wouldn't you be grumpy after a couple of years in a spaceship just for a vacation?
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The Andalite Chronicles is the best chronicles book imo, but I think she had the most time to work on it, I mean Visser is really good and it's also really short.
Arbron was my favorite character because he had a sense or humor but he knew when to drop it and focus on his job, and I like that he didn't just give up on life as a Taxxon, though he flip flopped on the matter at first when we first learn he was trapped he was still focusing on the mission, he still helped Elfangor after becoming a Taxxon and he still fought the Yeerks for years with that hunger.
I loved the space adventure, not being confined to one little planet, I kind of feel like the whole series could have been more like TAC after 54 if only it'd continued or had an EU.