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For some reason I remember them being on the Pemalite ship a lot longer than they actually were. The ending is cute, though. The Drode is a neat flunky to Crayak, you get the sense that he's not really a fan of the game that Crayak and the Ellimist are playing but has absolutely no power to do anything about it. Also not really sure why we're spoilering the fact that all of Rachel's books range from mediocre to flat-out terrible from here on out but it is the truth. An endless parade of "how do I balance my berserker self and my outward appearance....." awaits us!
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# ? May 25, 2024 01:55 |
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Make the pemalite ship their future base. I guess that will probably just remain the mall.
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# ? Aug 26, 2021 18:41 |
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This was the last animorphs book I ever read
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# ? Aug 26, 2021 19:41 |
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Terror Sweat posted:This was the last animorphs book I ever read So, going forward, this whole thing will be a mystery!
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# ? Aug 26, 2021 20:31 |
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Fritzler posted:Make the pemalite ship their future base. I guess that will probably just remain the mall. Planning a guerrilla war probably runs afoul of the Pemalite AI. Would be a cool place to stuff people to keep them safe though.
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# ? Aug 26, 2021 22:52 |
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Animorphs-Book 28-The Experiment The Experiment was ghostwritten by Amy Garvey. I don't know if she wrote any other books or not. There's an Amy Garvey who wrote a book called Cold Kiss (with a sequel called Glass Heart) about a teenage witch who brings her dead boyfriend back to life, and also wrote some adult romance novels, but I don't know if it's the same person. This was the only book she ghostwrote in this series, however. There's a story to that which we can talk about once the book is over. Chapter 1 quote:My name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. Ax has apparently become a TV junky. Also, for those who don't remember the Andalite Chronicles, Andalites, being descended from grazing herd animals, are most comfortable outdoors, but build "scoops". enclosed structures to protect their personal property from being exposed to the elements and to protect themselves from bad weather. Chapter 2 quote:Television. Or as most humans say, TV. Ax is young and occasionally restless.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 04:31 |
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I just love that Ax has a photo of a cinnamon bun. Bun-zuh.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 05:21 |
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effervescible posted:I just love that Ax has a photo of a cinnamon bun. Bun-zuh. Yeah, I can't decide if that detail is really funny or really sad. E: next poster had better have a bird av
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 06:02 |
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effervescible posted:I just love that Ax has a photo of a cinnamon bun. Bun-zuh. I'm picturing it as being properly framed and everything. Assuming it's Erek that's actually the FedEx truck, that's four books straight that he's been in - and I remember him definitely appearing in the next one too.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 06:32 |
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quote:Humans do a great deal with their mouths, most of it rather pointless. I mean he's not wrong
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 06:53 |
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 08:20 |
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 12:28 |
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I love the idea of Marco and Tobias seeing the framed photo of the Cinnabon, feeling slightly hurt, glancing at each other, and deciding not to mention it
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 14:55 |
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Who do you think got him the photo? As if Ax could get within photo distance of a delicious cinnamon bun himself and not be snarfing it.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 16:31 |
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Holy hell the writing in this one is incredible, I love this jaunty tone. Was there a reason this person only ghostwrote one?? They have a really good handle on Ax and very pleasant humor
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 16:51 |
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FlocksOfMice posted:Holy hell the writing in this one is incredible, I love this jaunty tone. Was there a reason this person only ghostwrote one?? They have a really good handle on Ax and very pleasant humor There is, but it involves spoilers from this book. Epi suggested they'd talk about it after.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 17:05 |
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:There is, but it involves spoilers from this book. Epi suggested they'd talk about it after. That's right. We'll discuss it when the book is over. She does write Ax very well, though.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 17:07 |
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effervescible posted:Who do you think got him the photo? As if Ax could get within photo distance of a delicious cinnamon bun himself and not be snarfing it. I'm going to imagine he just tore it out of a magazine he found somewhere in human morph and stuffed it under his clothes
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 17:47 |
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Fuschia tude posted:I'm going to imagine he just tore it out of a magazine he found somewhere in human morph and stuffed it under his clothes Ax was very disappointed when his subscription to "Hot Bunz" magazine wasn't what he expected.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 17:57 |
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If this is the book I think it is then yeah, this will be interesting. I remember re-reading this one though because Ax was so funny in it.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:04 |
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There are definitely Things to talk about later but the beginnings of Ax’s TV addiction are so good and such a fun character bit going forward
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:05 |
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freebooter posted:I'm picturing it as being properly framed and everything. IIRC there's like five books in a row where Erek tells the Animorphs what the plot is going to be. It's not the only time that happens but it does feel lazy and I wonder if it has something to do with the ghostwriting.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 04:02 |
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Chapter 3quote:“What is this, Candid Camera?” Marco said. So this is, as was mentioned, "Erek shows up and tells the team what their mission is". I understand the argument that it's lazy. But, at the same time, given that it's a premise that Yeerks are up to all sorts of secret stuff to take over, and that it's already established that the Chee spy on the Yeerks, it's a convenient, if somewhat easy way for the Animorphs to find this stuff out, rather than Marco having a cousin who works in the meatpacking plant and telling him his new coworkers are a giant spiky dinosaur and a 6 foot long centipede who keeps eating all the carcasses. So while it's lazy, I forgive it. Chapter 4 quote:I had planned on an afternoon and evening of watching TV. But Rachel assured me that on Tuesday there was never anything on. Ax both loving and not entirely understanding what commercials are is adorable. Also, Rachel is a liar, because in the Spring of 1999, on Tuesdays on network TV, Ax could watch 3rd Rock from the Sun, which he'd probably get a kick out of, Futurama, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also, we have Cassie explaining the evils of animal testing, and Ax casually explaining just how easy it would be for the Yeerks to set the earth's atmosphere on fire.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 04:33 |
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah its this one.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 08:46 |
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I use the "I am young and occasionally restless" joke to this day and I am pretty sure it has passed the point where anyone but me knows why it is supposed to funny. So its the optimal form of humour.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 14:58 |
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Relevant to bunz chat: I believe Ax would simply die of excitement.
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Relevant to bunz chat: With this we can disable the entire andalite fleet! They'll make me sub visser for sure!
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 00:02 |
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Chapter 5quote:We morphed to birds of prey. My own is called a northern harrier. Birds of prey are especially useful for observation because they have incredibly acute vision as well as excellent hearing. "Humans have several means of communicating in uninterrupted form with known persons, but many prefer “online.” Like much of human technology, it is inexplicable." It's totally inexplicable. Chapter 6 quote:The others had spent the day in their human school. Tobias and I had spent the day watching TV, and then watching cars go along a road and into and out of a tunnel. Human bodies, as you can imagine, are better at this sort of thing than Andalite ones, and Andalites are physically weaker.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 02:57 |
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quote:The driver behind us did not notice me, but he definitely noticed the others as they swung down into the truck. The driver was smiling, making a sort of pumping motion with his fist and yelling. Big fan of this guy.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 08:19 |
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Imagine being the big brain publisher guy saying "kids who read sci-fi books won't like this weird funny alien guy, make him alternate books with the other guy they will hate - the cool loner who is intelligent but troubled"
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 14:50 |
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i think the complaint was that kids won't "relate" to them, which is equally hilarious and stupid. after all, how many children can relate to feeling, uhhh, like a weird alien foreigner,, who tries and fails to fit into "human" culture, and deal with overwhelming sensory experiences and/or living up to their families expectations? and surely there aren't that many lonely neglected or impoverished kids, or kids who perhaps feel "trapped" in a body, and have difficulty working out, describing, and accepting their identity due to it?
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 15:21 |
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Chapter 7quote:I morphed to human. I morphed very quickly. Eh, don't blame him. Also, Ax sticking with the idea that chimps are superior to humans because they can walk on four limbs. Ax has made his opinion of bipeds known before. Chapter 8 quote:“Run away, already!” Marco yelled. Ax doesn't know it, of course, but as Toby the Hork-Bajir could tell you, Andalites have no real call to lecture other people on the proper treatment of sentient beings.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 03:39 |
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drat, Marco, that's harsh
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 03:47 |
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I like this author and its a shame she didn't get to come back. She gave the Animorphs a good edge.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 04:01 |
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HIJK posted:I like this author and its a shame she didn't get to come back. She gave the Animorphs a good edge. Not remembering if I read this book, and not knowing any of the behind the scenes details, I wonder if the reason she didn't come back that people have been hinting at ITT is that this edge was a little too pointed.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 09:01 |
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Could be. I don't know the circumstances behind the scenes either but its disappointing to see talent not be utilized.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 09:28 |
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I love the detail that Ax finds chimpanzees more attractive than humans. Is it the fur?
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 15:04 |
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Soup du Jour posted:I love the detail that Ax finds chimpanzees more attractive than humans. Is it the fur? I think it's mostly the quadrupedalism/knuckle walking. Ax finds bipedalism, especially without a balancing tail or anything like that, disconcerting.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 18:18 |
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I also like how they go out if their way to make very few of the alien races bipedal as well, or at least in the same way as humans.
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Edna Mode posted:I also like how they go out if their way to make very few of the alien races bipedal as well, or at least in the same way as humans. I think one of the other Ax books mentions that humans are the only sentient species (that he knows of) that are bipeds without tails.
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