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books of little importance
« on: February 02, 2010, 02:12:02 AM »
what books would you consider to be unnecessary to the series?

which fillers didn't serve any purpose in developing the plot or characters?
which redundant books re-stressed points already made in previous ones?

make sure to list reasons why you picked the ones you did.
excluding the alternamorphs, of course. no explanation needed there. ::)

i'm sure there are obvious picks out there, but many of you may have different opinions with the gray areas.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 09:06:03 AM »
Probably both of the Helmacron books. And the Visitor.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 11:01:30 AM »
The second Helmacron book was useless, man. XD In fact it was so useless and terribly written that I couldn't even finish it. Megamorphs # 2 covers a fairly important period of time, but the actual plot was just plain bizarre from what I remember. The book where Visser Three tries to control free will bugged me on so many levels, partially because it showcased the poor Visser suffering from severe villain decay. )= The Visser Three I had such a fondness of was the terrifying yet probably insane one of the earlier books. :3

There was definitely one ghostwriter in particular whose books left a bad taste in my mouth. Or at least I get that impression. The style of writing was too bland or something, not close enough to K.A's. Neither the characters or the plots read correctly in some of the Animorphs books at all.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 01:33:37 PM »
Such a thread has probably been opened before but ... I can't miss an opportunity to spit on the Buffleman book.
It was so stupid. And the story was a bit like in megamorphs 1 as it was about the "morphing energy" (same kind of ending as well I think, Cassie morphed in something big and killed the veleek, Cassie morphed in something big and crashed the helicopter  ::))

The thing is, I loved megamorphs 1  ;D But the buffleman thing >  ::)

Also this book with monkeys  ;D I loved it when Ax was the main character but it was so rare, once every 10 books... And they wasted a whole book with him :'( (28)
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 01:42:45 PM »
#11.
Absolutely nothing changed.
In fact, now that I think about it, metaplot books were thin indeed for a long while.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2010, 01:51:13 PM »
Quote from: dahud on February 02, 2010, 01:42:45 PM
#11.
Absolutely nothing changed. [...]

Well, it did introduce Sario Rips.  Of course, the dinosaur megamorphs did the same thing, I suppose . . .
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2010, 02:45:17 PM »
Probably all the later books that were retreads of earlier books.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 05:13:06 PM »
Book 34 would have been important, but since the hork-bajir resistance in it was never again mentioned, it to was useless. Good read though.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2010, 05:29:39 PM »
yeah you would think that would be mentioned again. Book 13 and 34 made me think after Earth was won there would be a continuation to the HB homeworld. But no.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2010, 08:10:08 PM »
Quote from: Tocade on February 02, 2010, 01:33:37 PM
Such a thread has probably been opened before but ...

i searched beforehand. saw this (http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,602) but i didn't consider it to be similar enough.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2010, 08:16:38 PM »
Quote from: dahud on February 02, 2010, 01:42:45 PM
#11.
Absolutely nothing changed.
In fact, now that I think about it, metaplot books were thin indeed for a long while.

I actually really liked that book. Of course I'm biased since I love time travel, the rainforest and Jaguars...
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2010, 10:17:54 PM »
Really? No one's mentioned the one where Cassie ends up in Australia?
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2010, 10:28:41 PM »
australia and buffa-human definitely are both fillers. i'll post my list in a bit.
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2010, 12:22:43 AM »
pretty much nothing happened in #13. Tobias whined a lot, ran around some, died or whatever, who cares right?
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Re: books of little importance
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2010, 12:45:50 AM »
Cassie in Australia. No competition.

The whole story was an excuse to write about a Kangaroo morph.
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