The Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide!

[guitarhero01234]

That rapping in the beginning just killed me. It's official, you're the Phresh Prince of Animorphs. Phresh Prince of SoCal? Screw it, my cleverness is failing me today.

[YeerkSalad]

Might this ever be available as a .mp3?

[guitarhero01234]

With poparena's permission, I could probably throw together some mp3s.

[poparena]

Sure. Glad people liked it. Wasn't really going for technical excellence though.

[guitarhero01234]

Awesome. I'll get on cobbling together some mp3s tonight (provided I don't get distracted by a butterfly or something).

[YeerkSalad]

OHHHHH YES!
I'll finally be able to listen to these at work and laugh awkwardly in the worst possible situations!
(Yep. I have a job. It involves cleaning up bird crap, killing mealy bugs, and trying not to kill fish.)

[guitarhero01234]

Wow, sounds like a lot of fun! [/sarcasm]
Anyway, I'm going to have to apologize, but while ripping the videos, I realized there is no way I can possibly convert the Alternamorphs review into an mp3. Sorry, but there is no ****ing way that I am going to be able to get a completely nonlinear review like that to flow as a single file.

[SmartGirl333]

Warning: unpopular opinion

I actually liked the Ellimist Chronicles.Although I agree that the other Chronicles were better, this one is awesome in its own way.
As Ifi said in its review:

Ifi: Of all the xenofiction I've ever read, this is the most xenoficticious

Source

[Stephquiem]

I feel like I enjoy recurring jokes entirely too much.

I remember that this was the only Animorphs books I didn't finish when I first got it? I think I got most of the way through it and stopped, and then picked it back up again after the series was over, because I was missing new Animorphs and HEY there was a bit I hadn't read yet!

Also, crappy framing or no, I distinctly remember the fandom losing its **** over the revelation that someone was going to die. That was a thing that happened. Or at the very least Animorphs Weekly Newsletter (which I subscribed to) had a discussion about it that people wrote in to. Most of my friends who were into Animorphs had dropped off somewhere in the 30s, so this was my only exposure to the fandom on an interactive level.

I don't really dislike this book. It just falls under "I wish more could have been done with it."

Edit: Oh hey AWN's site still exists. Good job, tripod.

[Phoenix004]

Regarding Part 1 of the review: I've never gone from serious goosebumps to laughing so fast in my life! Nice work with the Fresh Prince parody. Also I really enjoyed your suggestion of how the Ellimist could have told his story, would have been a lot more fun.

I was never a big fan of this book either. Again not like I dislike it, but so much more could have been done with it. Not to mention certain parts were a bit confusing, especially way back when I first read it.

I was never that interested in the idea of a Taxxon Chronicles, we got given a bunch of their background in the Andalite Chronicles. The Chee Chronicles would have been amazing though. You could show their home being invaded, looking for a new home, finding Earth and infusing the Pemalites essence into wolves, and some of the Chee's history on Earth and events they might have influenced. I never even considered an Anati Chronicles, but that would have been interesting too.

Also I'm totally on board with a well done Animorphs/Doctor Who crossover

[YeerkSalad]

Wow, sounds like a lot of fun! [/sarcasm]
Anyway, I'm going to have to apologize, but while ripping the videos, I realized there is no way I can possibly convert the Alternamorphs review into an mp3. Sorry, but there is no ****ing way that I am going to be able to get a completely nonlinear review like that to flow as a single file.

Don't worry about it.

Ellimist Chronicles was okay, but I never found it that interesting. The origin story was cool, but a bit random.

[YeerkSalad]

UPDATE: No pressure, but how much time do you think is left before you [gh] put up the reviews as mp3s?

[guitarhero01234]

I've been working on it. I've converted up to and including book 9 so far, but I probably won't upload anything until I get to TAC (hopefully by the time I go to bed tonight). The main reason it's taking so long is because I've been kind of remastering the crappy audio of the earlier episodes and doing some other minor editing.

[Cloak]

GH has become Poparena's Saffa.

[YeerkSalad]

Prepare to be murdered by him for capitalizing the g and h.

How is he like Saffa?