Is The Andalite Chronicles a good book to start with?

[Darth Revan]

Yeah, I didn't even notice the writing change when I was a kid. I was so into the story, that I skipped over most of the writing flaws and just went with it.

I first found Animorphs for Free Reading in my 6th grade English class. I saw a kid turn into a lizard and thought, <I'm reading that!>

[anijen21]

You were thought-speeching to yourself since before you started reading? wow, that's real dedication

[Darth Revan]

Haha, yes, yes I was.

[Shark Akhrrana]

Starting with TAC is not a bad idea. But like others have said you don't get the whole mystery feeling.
Also Kudos on the long distance relationship. I'm like you 3 years and counting . I got my long distance boyfriend into Animorphs too and also started him with TAC bought him a copy and had it delivered to his house by mail. My personal copy vanished I couldn't read it to him like you do. plus our long distance is huge and the bills would be horrible. but yeah TAC is a good book to start with. Especially if you are not sure if they will be that into the series.

[Elfangor Sirinial Shamtul]

Heck I just read em

[goom]

i say go by release date.
it's a great book, but not one i'd start with.

but better than starting with #54, right?

[Breakability]

I, too, am a strong advocate for reading the books in the order they were presented to us, or at least completing a series on at a time.

That being said, I think TAC was a good set of books from what I remember.

[Shark Akhrrana]

i say go by release date.
it's a great book, but not one i'd start with.

but better than starting with #54, right?

Well <_< he kind of read #3 on his own before getting TAC so him starting on teh beginning was not gona happen anyway. I read 4, 3, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 2  yeah horrible order but well i read what i had available

[Darth Revan]

Haha, that's a ****ed up order, Sharky! Randomness FTW!!

I got into the series before #5 was even released, so I had no choice but take it one book at a time when they were released.

[Serraph105]

I personally think it's more fun to first get a brief glimpse of  Elfangor in book #1 and not learn about him until later, rather than already knowing all about him by the time the Animorphs meet him.

But I'm sure there are worse places one could start with 
And I don't think I even read the series in order originally, so whatever.

yeah like starting with book three like I did. The bird with a mind of a human who ate a rat and it was an incredibly descriptive moment to boot. I was incredibly disgusted for a couple of days after I read that.

[VisserZer0]

Ermm, I haven't really caught up with the conversation, but I don't really think TAC would be a good book to start with. It has too many spoilers. True, it would give you a lot of knowledge as you read through the series, but it would also ruin some of the surprise moments of the series, like when Tobias learns about Elfangor being his father and such. I think it would get people hooked on the books, but isn't the greatest place to start. I think it should be read directly after #23.

The order I read the books was: 1, 10, then complete randomness the rest of the way. I remeber checking #10 out about 5 times before I actually read it. 

[Stephquiem]

i say go by release date.
it's a great book, but not one i'd start with.

but better than starting with #54, right?

Well <_< he kind of read #3 on his own before getting TAC so him starting on teh beginning was not gona happen anyway. I read 4, 3, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 2  yeah horrible order but well i read what i had available

Hey, when I started reading, up through #24 had been released. I read the first 25 (it took me up until a little before #26 was released XD) books out of order. I can't remember what it was, but I remember 10 was the last one I read like that, and the first five I read in this order: 3, 23, 13, 1, 11.

You can probably guess how confused I was pretty early on.

[Vanish]

I was wondering this too when I introduced Animorphs to my gf and decided to go in the time-line order of the Animorphs universe. I started with the Ellimist Chronicles -> Hork Bajir Chronicles -> Andalite Chronicles -> Animorphs #1. It was a different approach to what I and I'm sure 99% of the readers on this site did but it worked out. She had a rich knowledge of the Animorphs universe including the history of other races such as Taxxons and Hork Bajir and the epic battle between the Yeerks and Andalites that preceded years before Elfangor landed on Earth.