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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #120 on: July 07, 2008, 06:40:47 PM »
ok...not as bad as the first, but still bad.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #121 on: July 07, 2008, 06:41:38 PM »
Quote from: Estelore on July 07, 2008, 06:32:30 PM
Mmm-hmmmn. But would you keep writing if, every time you DID, the publisher edited out everything that you wanted and totally changed it, then threatened to sue you if you tried that again?

I would look for a new publisher until I had found one that would allow me to stay true to myself. And if that didn't happen, I just wouldn't get published.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #122 on: July 07, 2008, 06:42:54 PM »
Getting a new publisher generally involves breaking contract. Bad.

What is the point of making art that no one gets to read? Plus, it WAS her major source of funds.

Lose-lose situation.
Stop trying to find excuses.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #123 on: July 07, 2008, 06:45:33 PM »
if the last book doesn't get published, animorphs will end in even more of a cliffhanger, and more people will probably hate it.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #124 on: July 07, 2008, 06:54:33 PM »
actually if they had ended things at 53 it wouldnt have been that bad for some people, they could kind of figure out what happened, the actual necessary plot points were more or less handled

i personally loved 54 and loved that there was a whole book dealing with their post-war lives, tying up alot of the plot points
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #125 on: July 07, 2008, 06:56:12 PM »
But, if you think about it, having the last one was much better than ending at 53.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #126 on: July 07, 2008, 06:59:36 PM »
oh yea, definately, for me and you, but for some people that hated 54, 53 didnt make that bad of an ending, unless they hated it just for the fact that it was a cliffhanger cause 53 would leave an even worse one
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #127 on: July 07, 2008, 07:00:38 PM »
I loved #54, except that teensy little paragraph where jake said cassie wasn't coming.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #128 on: July 07, 2008, 08:26:51 PM »
Thanks to the E-books I just read the last 5 animorphs for the first time.  I loved the ending!  I think everything was exactly as it needed to be, even the cliffhanger.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #129 on: July 07, 2008, 08:36:26 PM »
Quote from: SageKiller on July 07, 2008, 08:26:51 PM
Thanks to the E-books I just read the last 5 animorphs for the first time.  I loved the ending!  I think everything was exactly as it needed to be, even the cliffhanger.

another satisfied customer, keep em coming KA haha
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #130 on: July 08, 2008, 03:53:44 AM »
I still don't understand what's so "bad" about it... I dunno if i'm missing a major point here, but, I kind of liked the way it ended. If K.A just wrote to please fans and not stay true to the Animorph's story... then wouldn't it be "worse"?
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I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To th

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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #131 on: July 08, 2008, 09:12:37 AM »
no, you're not missing a point. not everyone sees it like that though.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #132 on: July 08, 2008, 10:54:55 AM »
some of us feel that the ending was a little cheap and it could have been done diffrently and we have some very good points.
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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #133 on: July 09, 2008, 07:12:38 AM »
Yes, I agree with "a little", like the One part.... but other than that, not much of a bad ending. I mean, no one is perfect, right? And you can't satisfy everyone either.  :)
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I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To th

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Re: K.A's response to the final book criticsm.
« Reply #134 on: July 09, 2008, 08:55:48 AM »
Quote from: CounterInstinct on July 09, 2008, 07:12:38 AM
Yes, I agree with "a little", like the One part.... but other than that, not much of a bad ending. I mean, no one is perfect, right? And you can't satisfy everyone either.  :)

I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of Animorphs fans weren't satisfied with the ending.
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