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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2010, 06:44:17 AM »
Now that I think about it, the Animorphs book can supply plenty of twisted statements without even trying. No wonder Rachel flipped.

Here's mine. From countless Animorphs books:
A ten foot earthworm with nothing but teeth for a head bursted open, filling the room with a foul stench. His brother and sister worms gathered around him, and feasted on the dying worm.
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: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2010, 10:16:30 AM »
Animorphs as a series is so messed up that maybe it helps in part to explain why we're all so bizarre.  :)

It's a series in which right in the first book, the main villain turns into a gigantic thirty-foot monster and eats his wounded nemesis alive. And then makes a really bad pun out of it. And then his centipede-like minions eat the pieces that fall from his mouth.

Where there's an awful place underground in which human beings are shoved into cages all day by creepy bladed monsters until they can have their heads shoved into liquid mercury. Then a tiny slug crawls into their heads and takes control of their mind. I mean even Marco points out how this looks out of context. XD

Where a human and a blue deer can use technology to have inter-species sex and give birth to an unwanted, sad child. And then the mother promptly forgets about most of this. ^___^


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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2010, 07:52:14 PM »
Oooh I gotta get in on this!

#14. A group of teenagers deduce by watching a horse go to the bathroom that they are not really horses and use them to get into a military base where they find out the bad guy is really obsessing over a toilet.

Ok now that sounded REALLY twisted... :o

And yeah, it always bothered me that Marco was willing to murder a child instead of holding her for three days. Even in war, you NEVER. KILL. CHILDREN....

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2010, 02:22:22 PM »
you do when said child could quite easily lead to the death of you, your friends, and as such the world.  as said in many times throughout the books, war is never pretty.

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2010, 10:02:31 PM »
How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm

   

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I read all but the last four books. However, I did read the book Miss Applegate wrote about the Ellimist and Crayak. The beginning of this book starts out with the Ellimist talking to a dying Animorph. The story makes it seem like the Ellimist is almost afraid of Crayak. The Ellimist starts out as a humanoid creature who is sent out on a journey when his planet is destroyed. Through a series of adventures the Ellimist is transformed into a god-like creature. (It definitely sounds like some of the New-age beliefs to me. I believe that even the Mormon church believes that.)

At the end of this book, the Ellimist tells the dying Animorph that, although he supposedly loves life and can save her, he will not. Her “soul”, if such a thing exists in the Animorph universe, is described as shriveling into nothingness and going dark. (I do not have an exact quote because I threw the books away some time ago.)

The Animorphs themselves were well on their way to becoming something more than human. The last book has an inside cover that shows their faces among a background of stars. In book #48, Rachel is given supernatural powers by Crayak, although they get taken when she refuses to kill her cousin. The very act of morphing is spiritual in nature. It is very similar to the practice of the druids. The Andalites, the “good guys” who often resort to genocide and biological warfare, rely on telepathic and empathic abilities to communicate, practices forbidden in the Bible. There is even evidence of nature worship in Animorphs. There is a scene in the Andalite Chronicles where Elfangor asks a “pet” tree for forgiveness for atrocities he committed on another planet. And the trees sometimes talk back! (Animism, I think it’s called, when one personifies plants and animals and gives them souls. The druids also used the principles of Animism to acquire the traits of animals. Again, a process similar to morphing in Animorphs.) This might be a bit of a stretch but you’ll notice that there are FIVE Animorphs. Five is significant because of the pentagram.

It is a good thing that people expose Animorphs for what it is. Even though the series ended 4 years ago, there is still a wide fan-base. Even after 4 years they still have a hold on me. Reading Animorphs once a month became a sort of religious ritual for me. Delusions filled my head and are still there to this day. I really believed they were real for a time and I could see them following me, judging me. I still have these delusions. It infringes on the love I have for Christ and all that Christ has done for me.

P.S. Bring the death threats on! I don’t care what you do with this after you read it. (Maybe a nice bit of prayer…. J )
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2010, 10:43:07 PM »
Um....that person is paranoid. Just a little. I like the Animorphs a lot, but even when I was 10 I never thought they actually existed.

Oh and I like the whole "I never finished the series and threw the books away but I'm a expert" tone, too.
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2010, 10:45:46 PM »
you do when said child could quite easily lead to the death of you, your friends, and as such the world.  as said in many times throughout the books, war is never pretty.

Again, there's such a thing as Kandrona starvation.

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2010, 08:21:08 AM »
How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm

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Oh geez. I'm not sure if that's the exact same site, or if they just removed it (cuz I can't find it), but I remember a similar thing once saying that the TMNT were Satanic, because 'it showed animals acting as humans'. Um...that also encompasses like every cartoon ever made in America.

There's an article on Digimon there too, and of course Pokemon. This site oughta be good for some laughs. :XD:
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2010, 10:34:10 AM »
How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm

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Oh geez. I'm not sure if that's the exact same site, or if they just removed it (cuz I can't find it), but I remember a similar thing once saying that the TMNT were Satanic, because 'it showed animals acting as humans'. Um...that also encompasses like every cartoon ever made in America.

There's an article on Digimon there too, and of course Pokemon. This site oughta be good for some laughs. :XD:
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2010, 12:00:44 PM »
What are some of the more disturbing ways to describe specific books or parts of books without lying or significantly stretching the truth?

I thought of this when I described #33 to a friend unfamiliar with the series as a book where, "A homeless kid gets put in a glass box and is tortured until he tries to kill himself." I didn't consciously make it sound twisted, I just described it that way because it's what happens.

It got me thinking about how even moremessed up a lot of the scenes of the books can be when taken out of context. What are some other significant examples of this? Another one I can think of offhand is, "Rachel used her severed arm as a bludgeon to kill someone." Can't remember which book that one's from though, it's been too long.

Tobias isn't homeless,he lives in the meadow/his messed up aunt/uncle's house/the free hork-bagir colony(then again it depends of what your definition of "home" is) and he didn't try to kill himself unless i missed something
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2010, 12:20:00 PM »
He did try to crash into the skylight at the mall in book #3. Marco threw a baseball and broke it before he hit though... I don't know why he had a baseball....

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2010, 02:01:57 PM »
I assume he stole it. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Tobias did try to kill himself in #33. He smashed his face against the box so hard his beak broke off.

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2010, 02:22:31 PM »
I assume he stole it. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Tobias did try to kill himself in #33. He smashed his face against the box so hard his beak broke off.

Then the box is very strong. I'd rather try and smash the box then fly away
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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2010, 02:28:38 PM »
"I flew up, flung myself at the glass. {Stop!} I cried. I wanted it to end. If she wouldn't stop, I would end it myself. By ending me. I threw myself against the side of the cube. My beak cracked. Splinters of pain electrified my face."
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I'd say that counts as him trying to kill himself, not break the box.

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Re: Twisted ways to describe the books
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2010, 12:12:38 PM »
X3 Okay now I seriously have to read the Animorphs-Satanism page. I mean how the hell did that get into the discussion?! XD