One annoying thing...

[Visser19]

I love Animorphs, but did anyone else find it annoying that in every single first chapter of each book had the same introduction? "There is a threat with yeerks, and they are real. Yes, people all around you could be controllers. This is all true, and we fight back. A blue centaur alien found us and gave us power to change into any animal we want." It allowed for anyone who started the series in the middle to have some understanding, but seriously, it got old after 20 books.

[Chad32]

All the explicit details of the same morphs also got old. Yes we know what it's like to morph raptors now. We don't need paragraphs of descriptions in every book.

It has it's advantages because not everyone started the series with book 1. The first one I read was 8, and there are 15 books already out before I read it. But for the people who have read a lot of them, it gets old.

[Visser19]

Yeah. I think a lot of that will be eliminated if Animorphs 2.0 is a series of longer novels like Harry Potter.

[Unknown User]

Yeah. I think a lot of that will be eliminated if Animorphs 2.0 is a series of longer novels like Harry Potter.

If they even make an Animorphs 2.0...

[Visser19]

Yeah, if...

[VisserZer0]

I eventually just got to the point where I skipped the intro and went onto the actual book

[goom]

well, this topic (or similar) had been made before, but it never hurts to double-dip.

I eventually just got to the point where I skipped the intro and went onto the actual book

i couldn't. i  HAD to read the whole book; no more, no less.
(repetitive as they were.) (repetitive as they were.) (repetitive as they were.) (repetitive as they were.) (repetitive as they were.)

the 'intros' were rather annoying and unnecessary beyond book 10ish.
i pity anybody who picked up the series mid-30s and expected to understand it.

they should have instead included instructions on the backs of later books:

start at the beginning of the series, dumbass kid. this ain't goosebumps.

 

[Kelly]

haha Goom, so true.

I used to just skim over the intro.

[itw2009]

I eventually just got to the point where I skipped the intro and went onto the actual book

QFT. around the thirties, that was my MO.

start at the beginning of the series, dumbass kid. this ain't goosebumps.

book 10 was close enough for me. *shrug* extenuating circumstances made my response reasonable. i never read #4 or #12 until much, much, much later; for some reason, they disappeared very quickly- before i could get my hands on them the first time around.

[goom]

book 10 was close enough for me. *shrug* extenuating circumstances made my response reasonable. i never read #4 or #12 until much, much, much later; for some reason, they disappeared very quickly- before i could get my hands on them the first time around.

yeah, i just meant near. like not jumping into book 42 and expecting to understand it all.

[itw2009]

nah, i knew that.

still.... i feel inclined to try to prove you wrong, but i don't think i could. ^^ i'm just being belligerent. *belligerbelliger* if someone was smart enough, i think s/he could get by... still. why would anyone want to pick up book #30-something of series s/he'd never read? i take that back. apparently some people around here chose the first book based on the animal on the cover. so... pretty much, elephant and kangaroo lovers are screwed.

[Essam 293]

start at the beginning of the series, dumbass kid. this ain't goosebumps.

 

LMAO, QFT. +1