Animorphs

GandalfTheWhite · 04-26-2002, 02:16 PM

I read these back in like 4th or 5th grade and i thought they were pretty cool, any opinions?

TomFoolOfATook · 04-26-2002, 03:07 PM

nod - they were pretty kewl - especially the descriptions when they morphed - good writing

***Khamûl*** · 04-27-2002, 12:07 AM

I only read a couple of them, but they were pretty neat. I own the Andalite Chronicles. It's a cool book.

TwirlingString · 04-27-2002, 06:44 PM

Yep. I read it all the way too. I loved the ending for a couple of weeks then decided I wanted to know what happned next. Do the animorphs save ax or not, or did they die? I think she was killing them, but still they've gotten out of worse things then this. At the end, I kept expecting the Emilist to pop in with rachel. But then I read the Emillist Chronicales and that dashed all hope. My favorite characters were Tobias and Aximili-Esgarouth-Istil (Did i spell that right?).

TinuvielChild · 04-27-2002, 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by TwirlingString
Yep. I read it all the way too. I loved the ending for a couple of weeks then decided I wanted to know what happned next. Do the animorphs save ax or not, or did they die? I think she was killing them, but still they've gotten out of worse things then this. At the end, I kept expecting the Emilist to pop in with rachel. But then I read the Emillist Chronicales and that dashed all hope. My favorite characters were Tobias and Aximili-Esgarouth-Istil (Did i spell that right?).

i think Ax had an "h" in his last name-section, making it Aximili-Esgarouth-Isthil. *shrug* not sure, last time i read those was 4th/5th grade. i remember that one of my friends and i decided that one of the teachers (who we hated) was actually Visser 3.

TwirlingString · 04-27-2002, 07:21 PM

Opps, you're right. I think my fav was the one were cassie accidentaly ends up in australia, or maybe the one were they end up in the north Pole.

Brokehorn4000 · 07-17-2002, 06:40 PM

I used to read them, and they were cool. But eventually I stopped, only because life got busier and we couldn't go to the library as often.

Faramir · 07-17-2002, 06:44 PM

I like those a lot, very good books. But I started likeing LotR and Redwall, and I haven't been reading them much lately. But I do read them still sometimes.

Galenavar · 07-24-2002, 06:43 PM

I really liked them. They were one of my favorite series ever (I even have the boardgame), but I never got a chance to get all the way through them. They were being written so rapidly, and I was so busy with school and other reading, I never got around to finishing the series. Who knows? I might start up again, if I get some free time.

Did anyone like the TV series? I liked the special effects, but other than that, >blech<.

Brokehorn4000 · 07-25-2002, 12:00 PM

They did come out fast didn't they? I think that was the problem. And the Animorphs TV show? I agree that it wasn't good. Special effects were ok, but overall, it stunk!

Sylvee Estel · 07-26-2002, 10:44 PM

I used to read them, they were really good. But after a while, they began to get repetitive. I got bored of them and began reading other things. They were very good though. Are they still being written?

Brokehorn4000 · 07-28-2002, 09:21 AM

I think that's a defiinte no. K. A. Applegate finished the series a while back.

TwirlingString · 07-30-2002, 07:22 PM

she choose a horrible way to end. All except Cassie in life or death situatuion. Probably survived, but still that aura of uncertyanty. If her style follows. Everyone will prob fall in love and jake and cassie get back together and find rachel still alive. I think she killed someone off at the very end cuz she's a hopeless HEA person.

Carafin · 07-31-2002, 09:19 PM

the show did suck it was just not good (i didn't even like the effects) I liked the books about four or five years ago dunno if I'd still like em though I managed to read some of the andalite chronicle's and a bit of the ellimist stuff but I didn't like the ellimist stuff (it sorta ruined the chances I had for getting everyone out safe and sound)my fave book would b the one where Tobias finds out he is Elfangor's son My fave characters would b Cassie and Tobias sorry dragged that out really long

katya · 08-02-2002, 02:12 AM

hey yeah these are good books i have a ton. i used to read them a few years ago then i figured i was too old for them, then one day i was in the middle of something else and i picked up the one where tobias (who was my favourite) found out Elfangor was his father, and i was like, "hey, these are better than i am willing to admit." By the way "Nice Is Neat" rocks my world, if anyone knows who I mean.

katya · 10-31-2002, 10:32 PM

I guess no one knows who Nice Is Neat is. Or maybe this is just a neglected thread. A prize for whoever knows who they are!

TwirlingString · 11-09-2002, 05:54 PM

umm..weren't they who cassie's mom thought they wre talking about when they said NIN but they really meant Nine Inch Nails?

katya · 11-16-2002, 04:00 PM

yeah thats right. then there was boys eleven men, etc. um...ok for a prize you get a smiley.

Khadrane · 11-18-2002, 09:10 PM

Well, I can't say if those books were good because I've never read them, but they always looked kinda lame to me... (but hey, they might not be. I don't know because I've never read them.

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Galenavar · 11-19-2002, 07:36 PM

Basically, they deal with these four kids, a hawk and a good alien, to be exact who have to save the world from a bad alien invasion using the ability to morph into any animal they touch and aquire the DNA. That's the basic plotline in a nutshell. It was actually really cool, though I never got around to finishing the series.

04-26-2002, 02:16 PM	#1
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	Animorphs I read these back in like 4th or 5th grade and i thought they were pretty cool, any opinions? __________________ "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." -Gandalf The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf "A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong." -Gandalf

04-26-2002, 03:07 PM	#2
TomFoolOfATook Hobbit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Dale Posts: 49	Animorphs nod - they were pretty kewl - especially the descriptions when they morphed - good writing __________________ Pieces of Eight the search for the money tree go cash your freedoms in for gold Pieces of Eight Treasure filled with emphtiness dont let it turn your heart to stone

04-27-2002, 12:07 AM	#3
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I only read a couple of them, but they were pretty neat. I own the Andalite Chronicles. It's a cool book. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

04-27-2002, 06:44 PM	#4
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Yep. I read it all the way too. I loved the ending for a couple of weeks then decided I wanted to know what happned next. Do the animorphs save ax or not, or did they die? I think she was killing them, but still they've gotten out of worse things then this. At the end, I kept expecting the Emilist to pop in with rachel. But then I read the Emillist Chronicales and that dashed all hope. My favorite characters were Tobias and Aximili-Esgarouth-Istil (Did i spell that right?). __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

04-27-2002, 07:21 PM	#6
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Opps, you're right. I think my fav was the one were cassie accidentaly ends up in australia, or maybe the one were they end up in the north Pole. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

07-17-2002, 06:40 PM	#7
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	I used to read them, and they were cool. But eventually I stopped, only because life got busier and we couldn't go to the library as often. __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy.

07-17-2002, 06:44 PM	#8
Faramir Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ithilien Posts: 353	I like those a lot, very good books. But I started likeing LotR and Redwall, and I haven't been reading them much lately. But I do read them still sometimes. __________________ This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Annun, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien, land of many fountains."-Faramir, Chapter IV, The Two Towers ========================== FRODO LIVES!!! ========================== YODA IS DA MAN!!! ========================== I Love Jesus!

07-24-2002, 06:43 PM	#9
Galenavar Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: WI Posts: 129	I really liked them. They were one of my favorite series ever (I even have the boardgame), but I never got a chance to get all the way through them. They were being written so rapidly, and I was so busy with school and other reading, I never got around to finishing the series. Who knows? I might start up again, if I get some free time. Did anyone like the TV series? I liked the special effects, but other than that, >blech<. __________________ Galenavar Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo If there's no magic, there's no meaning.

07-25-2002, 12:00 PM	#10
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	They did come out fast didn't they? I think that was the problem. And the Animorphs TV show? I agree that it wasn't good. Special effects were ok, but overall, it stunk! __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy.

07-26-2002, 10:44 PM	#11
Sylvee Estel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Tennessee Posts: 115	I used to read them, they were really good. But after a while, they began to get repetitive. I got bored of them and began reading other things. They were very good though. Are they still being written? __________________ ~Sylvee

07-28-2002, 09:21 AM	#12
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	I think that's a defiinte no. K. A. Applegate finished the series a while back. __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy.

07-30-2002, 07:22 PM	#13
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	she choose a horrible way to end. All except Cassie in life or death situatuion. Probably survived, but still that aura of uncertyanty. If her style follows. Everyone will prob fall in love and jake and cassie get back together and find rachel still alive. I think she killed someone off at the very end cuz she's a hopeless HEA person. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

07-31-2002, 09:19 PM	#14
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	the show did suck it was just not good (i didn't even like the effects) I liked the books about four or five years ago dunno if I'd still like em though I managed to read some of the andalite chronicle's and a bit of the ellimist stuff but I didn't like the ellimist stuff (it sorta ruined the chances I had for getting everyone out safe and sound)my fave book would b the one where Tobias finds out he is Elfangor's son My fave characters would b Cassie and Tobias sorry dragged that out really long __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

08-02-2002, 02:12 AM	#15
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	hey yeah these are good books i have a ton. i used to read them a few years ago then i figured i was too old for them, then one day i was in the middle of something else and i picked up the one where tobias (who was my favourite) found out Elfangor was his father, and i was like, "hey, these are better than i am willing to admit." By the way "Nice Is Neat" rocks my world, if anyone knows who I mean. Last edited by katya : 12-31-2003 at 08:15 PM.

10-31-2002, 10:32 PM	#16
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I guess no one knows who Nice Is Neat is. Or maybe this is just a neglected thread. A prize for whoever knows who they are! Last edited by katya : 12-31-2003 at 08:14 PM.

11-09-2002, 05:54 PM	#17
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	umm..weren't they who cassie's mom thought they wre talking about when they said NIN but they really meant Nine Inch Nails? __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

11-16-2002, 04:00 PM	#18
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	yeah thats right. then there was boys eleven men, etc. um...ok for a prize you get a smiley.

11-18-2002, 09:10 PM	#19
Khadrane Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth (I wish) Posts: 670	Well, I can't say if those books were good because I've never read them, but they always looked kinda lame to me... (but hey, they might not be. I don't know because I've never read them. ) __________________ Few know whither their road will take them till they come to its end. -Legolas FRODO LIVES! ABORTION IS HOMICIDE

11-19-2002, 07:36 PM	#20
Galenavar Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: WI Posts: 129	Basically, they deal with these four kids, a hawk and a good alien, to be exact who have to save the world from a bad alien invasion using the ability to morph into any animal they touch and aquire the DNA. That's the basic plotline in a nutshell. It was actually really cool, though I never got around to finishing the series. __________________ Galenavar Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo If there's no magic, there's no meaning.