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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: martinguy on December 30, 2009, 05:01:50 PM
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What do you think ? :-]
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well i think 3# but i haven't (readed) more than 3 books.
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my favorites are #18 and #26. I think they're the best plotted. But that's just regular series.
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Pretty sure this post has been done a few thousand times, but eh, I'll indulge. :)
Regular series, I love the David trilogy. #6 is also great, because it's the first time you get to see into the mind of a Yeerk, so to speak.
My favorite Megamorphs is #4, Back to Before. My favorite Chronicles, and overall favorite book of the entire story, is The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (I'm bolding it because it's just that awesome). I'm also partial to Visser and TAC, though.
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I've been listening to the Animorphs: the Radio Drama crew's portrayal of the David trilogy, and it just gives me chills how good this story is. I agree with them on how it is the best suited for making a movie, but of course you'd have to explain the origin :P
So I guess put together I would nominate the David trilogy, with the Andalite Chronicles as a close second, and a definite vote for #24 as the most awesomely funny ;D
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#26 and the David Trilogy are the best. I would say that's when the series peaked.
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I would agree that the peak was the David Trilogy and 26. Partly because they were really good books, and partly because the trilogy happened just before the gostwriters came in with all their books, and the final arc where the characters and such were twisted to meet the needs of KA's message about war.
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26, probably...
I would say that Back to Before was one of the best and worst books in the entire series... I mean, from a strictly independant view, it was a frickin' awesome idea... and it would be one of my favorites... except for the fact that it had almost no bearing on the rest of the series... (interesting that none of the Megamorphs after the first one really did...)
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the first one was awesome!!! #1
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#3 and #33 are my favorites, but I'm a Tobias ****...
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#1 is the best imo.
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The Hork-Bajir Chronicles without any doubt. i was so obsessed with it when it first came out. Like i loved The Andalite Chronicles and it might've been my favorite but i felt like that book started to fall apart near the ending. The HBC kept its quality throughout the whole book. And i just loved, and still love, everything about it. It was like the only one of the series that my mom didn't give away secretly. Even she knew how much i love the book lol
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Why would your mom steal your stuff?
I can't say what my favorite book is. TAC and HBC would definitely be on the list. Visser is good as well. Several from the early main series are good candidates.
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i think i want to add the David Trilogy. i had forgotten how into that arc i was.
[spoiler]when it was made to look like Tobias was killed, i remember being in so much shock lol. And yeah, not sure on if we're supposed to use spoiler font for details or not lol[/spoiler]
Why would your mom steal your stuff?
when i first went away for school, my mom went on a cleaning spree and threw out or gave away a lot of the stuff i didn't take with me lol...the HC was the only animorphs book that wasn't given away lol. The rest of the series that i had...all gone :-( i've only managed to get a handful of the books again lol
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I always like book 18. The Leeran home planet was very cool and and the battle going on was also awesome, Not to mention traitors and getting to meet new Andalites. Also the general rocking of Ax's world and down to the wire action made that book just incredibly cool.
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I thought the Hork Bajir Chronicles was probably the deepest and well thought out book, followed by Visser and then The Ellimist Chronicles.
Highlights from the regular series: 13, 18 and 19.
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I would say...#3 The Encounter,it was so amazeing to me to get into,for real,in Tobias's head and help me better understand his character and make me a better rper of him on here.
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I have not read all the books but I like 8, 13, David Trilogy, 26, Megamorphs 2, Andalite Chron. and Hork-Bajir Chron.
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I can't pick just one in a long series like this so...
#5- One of the funniest ones with Ax and his first experience with food and the turning point for Marco
#26- Epic battle as pawns between Crayak and Ellimist. Awesome
#28- Hated by many, I still find it hilarious. Now, I cannot speak until "these messages" are over.
#33- Awesome character development for Tobias
#20-#22- David Trilogy. Absolutely epic. Hilarious, action packed. Full of treachery, deceit, and awesomeness.
#30 and #31- Marco is my favorite character, and I definitely love his ruthless aspect in both of these
#38- Animorphs outsmart Andalites. Big time. And Ax shows a soft weakness we haven't seen before in his attraction towards Estrid.
#45-#46 - Beginning of the end, a turning point as Marco instigates a chain of events that leads to the eventual surfacing of the Animorphs. Other events lead to all out war. Awesome.
#49-53- Epic in every way possible. Despite enjoying 40+ of book full of guerrilla tactics and espionage, seeing the way the war escalates and the decisions Jake makes towards winning this war are simply awesome. Just epic... the scenes of desperation in the Valley, meeting with US military and government, bombing the yeerk pool, and the eventual entrance within the poolship and Jake's order... <Rachel. Go.>. Awesome.
#54- I'm going to have to be unpopular here and say that only after the third time I read through the entire series, I'm finally satisfied with the ending. It has its faults, but if you've read KA's letter defending her ending, you'll find that's its the only way to end the series. Strangely enough I'm actually more satisfied with the Animorphs ending than I am with the Harry Potter one.
Yeahhhh I planned on only writing a few, but then rambled on. Animorphs is awesome. And I think I broke a record for using the word awesome in a post.
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Marco books!!!! The only books worth reading ;)
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I read her letter, and I'm still not convinced. Some things, like about relationships in war, just don't make sense. she mentions relationships that grow strong during war break apart during peace time. Except that the relationship that started before the war, and grew the least during the war, was the one that fell apart. While the one that started after book one, and grew strong during the war, would have been expected to remain strong afterwards as far as I could tell.
Not to mention some of the really stupid stuff that happened in the last arc.
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Probably 12 and 17. Oatmeal and Jeremy Jason McCole, dude.
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It's bad when the lameness of a plot is lampshaded within it. Nothing really came out of the morphing allergy thing, so 12 is really just filler.
People say 2 and 3 are filler, but they are also character defining moments, so they are still important.
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Well, I have to agree that #26 was most excellent. However, I have to go with #25 and #33 on this one. #25 because it was so bleak at times. Out gunned, out of their element, scrounging to survive not because of the yeerks, but because of the environment. And Marco's blown date was hilarious lol. #33 because, as previously mentioned, the character development of Tobias was astounding. He was broken by the event until just about #43 (see book #37, where he says "I'm no one's leader")
Both astounding books
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Marco books!!!! The only books worth reading ;)
Marco Tobias books!!!! The only books worth reading ;)
:P
Seriously, The Andalite Chronicles is my number one favorite.
#13 is probably my favorite of the regular books. And then #17, simply because . . . oatmeal. Freaking oatmeal.
I like all of the Megamorphs except the first one. *shudders*
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All of the chronicles books. Marco and Tobias books.
Hork-Bajir Chronicles was my favorite chronicles strory, and #3,#5,#33 and #45 are among my favorites from the series.
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You know, I've never actually really thought about this question much. But now that I do think about it, a couple stand out to me;
#51 just seems like a really epic story in the sense that it's within the final arc of the series and the whole thing with the governor and the defence of him just highlights how serious the Yeerk invasion of Earth had become;
The David trilogy, like some have said, specifically #21, as it's the turning point (although there were pretty much hints from the start he was a bit dubious) of the character and the short arc. (I cheered at the end of #22; he completely deserved everything he got.)
And I also can see why people like #26; I really like how K. A. Applegate showed the Animorphs' everyday lives, and how that could sometimes (or, did) intertwine with their mission(s) and the seriousness of what they were getting into. It also involves the Ellimist and Crayak, so it's also pretty epic in that way too. I also liked books early on in the series for that reason, as well; it hadn't become fully serious and as dangerous by that point, and they were still trying to live some semblance of normal lives. (Specifically #6 through to #14 - a bit of a stretch, I know.)
But through all of that, I can still appreciate practically every book, including all of the Megamorphs (all of which I really love) and Chronicles books because they all have good intentions about them, even though some aren't all that significant to the overall plot or are character development stories and explorations. It shouldn't all be about the end result, should it? Most of us know how the series ends, so why not go back and enjoy the ones we looked down upon before, or didn't really strike us on the first read-through? ;D
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I prefer Ax books in general, so most of my faves are Ax books. #18 and #38 really show the darkside of the Andalite race. #18 is action packed just plain awesome. It shows Ax's desperation for his own species and his loyalty. Bonus for the andalite swear! #38 is really charater devoloping and shows how another andalite might act in the circumstances. It gives you how different Ax is from others of his own race and how Earth has changed him. The angst at the end of #46 is deep and dark. How Ax can be totally ruthless in threating thousands of lives to get what he wants. #52 shows how loyal Ax is to the Animorphs and disobeys orders from the Andalites, his people. Also, #26 and #29 are really clear in my mind. The Ellimist Chronicals are really heartfelt and touching to me. Megamorphs #3 kind of gave me an unbiased look on the human race in general, especally in Ax's POV.
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Mine would have to be book 30. It's so crazy with Marco plotting to kill his own mother. I love this quote from it, when he was talking about killing his mother.
"Someday, if we won, if humanity survived, we'd be in the history books. Me and Jake and Rachel and Cassie and Tobias and Ax. They'd be household names, like generals from World War II or the Civil War. Patton and Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee.
Kids would study us in school. Bored, probably.
Some kid would laugh. Some kid would say, "Cold, man. That was really cold."
I had to do it, kid. It was a war. It's the whole point, you stupid, smug, smirking little jerk! Don't you get it? It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil.
Innocent Hork-Bajir. Innocent Taxxons. Innocent human-Controllers.
How else to stop the Yeerks? How else to win?
No choice, you punk. We did what we had to do.
"Cold, man. That Marco dude? He was just cold.""
I can't believe this series was for little kids. Wow.
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Where do I start....
The David trilogy
#7
#26
#24
#1
the last 2
and ....THE ELIMIST CHRONICLES!!!
but I like most of Rachel's narratives, and Marco's are the more amusing
Cassies.....ehhh
Ax....ehh
Tobias...tolerable (#3 was good)
Jake...they're good, but I dont feel as excited when I read them
Still havent read Hork Bajir yet...
Post Merged: June 01, 2010, 02:45:25 AM
#3 and #33 are my favorites, but I'm a Tobias ****...
Man....#33 was rough....in a good way
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I went to visit my family for a few days and had the pleasure of perusing through my old Animorphs collection for the first time in quite a while. While I was there, I reread The Hork-Bajir Chronicles and The Andalite Chronicles back-to-back.
I have to say that especially when read in conjunction like that, they stood out sharply to me as being the best two books of the series. One thing I really loved about them was the thematic parallel between Seerow committing the crime that basically doomed the Hork-Bajir and came to be known as Seerow's Kindness, and Elfangor doing the same thing at the end of his own life which ended up essentially saving Earth. And aside from the doom of the Hork-Bajir world and the salvation of Earth, the same act also spawned the rise of Yeerk empire and its eventually downfall. I don't know why, but I found this parallel very moving. It spoke volumes about how this sort of thing has no inherent right and wrong, and sometimes it's impossible to know for sure how your action is going to affect the future - but sometimes the only choice is taking the chance.
Sorry for the ramble. Aside from the Chronicles, my other favorite books in the series are the 3 in the David trilogy (especially the last one), and #45. The David trilogy was the first time in Animorphs where I sat back and said to myself, "Damn, this is some heavy stuff." What David did to Saddler and his family is still, to me, one of the most screwed up and wrong things that happens in the entire series.
I loved #45 because Marco is such a great character and it was amazing and truly heartwarming to see him finally accomplish the goal he had been trying to achieve for literally the last 40 books. As someone else pointed out, it was also truly the turning point for the series, the book that marked the beginning of the end.
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Personally I would say any of the books Tobias narrated.Those were always awesome to get inside his head and see how he feels and such.