most (ir)/revelant book

[goom]

(note: this is not your most/least favorite)
which book in the whole series, chronicles included, do you feel is the MOST and least important to the storyline?

for more important book, i'd have to say the #1, the invasion, but the andalite/hork-bajir chronicles were also quite important.
the least important book would definitely be #48, the return. complete waste of a book, it was a little touching at the end but was kind of pointless.

i might go over the 'most important' choice again, because i'm sure there's a good second candidate, but number one was definitely needed.

[Chad32]

48 would be pretty well up there on the list of irrevelant books. They waste the potential of bringing David back, and make Rachel seem more one dimensional than she should be. She has two sides, dang it!

Book one and HBC are up there on the list of most relevant books.

There are a lot of books that would go on either list. Lot's of books that are very important to read because they are crucial to the plot. Many books that you could skip reading altogether, and not miss a thing plotwise.

[goom]

haha yeah.
remember that underwater civilization? (the mutation, i think.)
waste of a book. that's up there with #48

[Toc']

Yeah I agree with the mutation...

But the most useless is "the unexpected" (44) according to me.

(Oh there is also "the proposal" and the one were the yeerks want to destroy the human will...)

[Chad32]

Yeah, i think Australia was one of the more notorious fillers. Maybe because it happens near the end, when KA starts rushing things to hurry and end the series.

[Toc']

I agree^^
And it was such a cliché^^

[Chad32]

What was the cliche, exactly?

Someone getting isolated and bringing harm to innocent bystanders because of the enemies hunting them?

[Toc']

The boomerang thing
Oh and the "no worries"

It was an Australian cliché ^^

[Chad32]

ah, the Australian steriotypes.

[RYTX]

For me 33/43 and 28 top out the worthless ones, though 28, still funny

1 obviously, 5 and 49 I mark as ones that are must reads. Big moments there

[goom]

how about the separation? (starfish, bad/good rachel)

oh, 'in time with the dinosaurs'. cool, but a big waste. no dino morphs

[AniDragon]

(Oh there is also "the proposal" and the one were the yeerks want to destroy the human will...)

Though I agree with the second one you mentioned, The Proposal was actually a bit important. The "main plot" was mostly filler, but the part about Marco's dad getting married was pretty important.

Another irrelevant book: #14 (the Zone 91 book). Funny at times, yes, but not too important, plot wise.

[Liz]

Most irrelevant: Alternamorphs? xD

I guess that doesn't really count...but most of the ones people have already mentioned I agree with.

[AcreLorraine]

A lot of the books you mention seem unimportant, but some allow for different character relationships to be shown.  Most characters generally stick to interacting with one or two of the others with sparse input from the others.  And honestly, do you think every battle against the yeerks is going to be an epic tale.  Especially when the animorphs always end up following the trail the yeerks left behind.  So some missions are important, some end up less important than they should have been.  Although the whole david working for crayak was definately not a favorite.  But it showed a bit more into Rachel's self and her inner conflict.  Necessary but not one to dwell on.  Although, when it comes to irrelevent, megamorphs 2 mostly because they didn't keep the morphs.  I was unhappy about that.  It just messed with Cassie's head and that's done enough already.

[Yarin]

number 9 was irrelevant i think also the familiar was total filler