Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts

[Blazing Angel]

Written for children, enjoyed by weirdos like us.

[RYTX]

but harry potter is not a children's book?
the line is fine indeed my friends

[Underseen]

Not really because the high vocabulary and large amount of page numbers, but Animorphs was written for children and advertised for children too.

[redtailedsaffa]

I'm not really sure why that definition came about in the first place.

[RYTX]

In terms of total word count I doubt potter was significantly longer than Animorphs as a series.
If they are calling it novel vs novella (or whatever a paper back that size is called) maybe, but as most the books were series rather than individuals, not a fair comparison.
Potter also was not particularly high vocabulary, a high number of big adjectives sure, but not above standard middle school levels. Animorph's was admittedly a grade or two lower, but not so much to remove from the category.
And finally, they both, and all the other books I saw there fell in the same categories at the stories: young adult. I don't recall HP ever being marketed to an older audience, but once the films started coming it was seen as a "family" thing, and since it took them near ten years to come out, they had the carry over, but still a single adult 35 yro in 2007 with Deathly hallows was seen as reading a youth book. Just being common place doesn't up it's level of difficultly   

[redtailedsaffa]

Full member, huh? Wow I just noticed.

I feel like I'm either being promoted up the levels of The Sharing or up ranks in the Andalite military.

I think I'll go with the latter. 

[Unknown User]

Before the invasion, did yeerks ever have parties in yeerk pools? Did they match into trio's and swim? Do yeerks go around hitting on random members of their species like humans?

[redtailedsaffa]

Guess that would've been difficult.. They were blind, right?

[RYTX]

well lots of animals can't see, they still find and court in their own ways.

So from the biological stand point, I imagine there was something along those lines, but from the story point I doubt it. Party slugs aren't evil (see Slurms Mckenzie), and so I doubt they'd make that a secret character aspect for the bad guys

[Underseen]

Guys... Davids back Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

[AniDragon]

I just got a review for an Animorphs fanfic on ff.net telling me where "the thought speak symbols that K. A. uses" are on the keyboard. Methinks someone is new to Animorphs fanfics on ff.net.

[redtailedsaffa]

Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.

Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!

[Underseen]

Something is telling me Saffa is also new to fanfiction.net's use of < and >... Kidding

[Stephquiem]

Got a big book on animals from the Smithsonian. Now attempting to identify the exact species for the morphs used in Animorphs. Or at least the ones they got from the barn. Or just... not the Gardens.

[AniDragon]

Or just hasn't seen an actual keyboard im their life.

Oh come on, even first grade math has < and > !!

Oh no, they knew where they were. They were telling ME where they were, because somehow they never noticed that everyone on fanfiction.net uses an alternative due to < and > being html symbols, and thus don't work on the site.