The Best Books Ever

Magus · 03-31-2008, 08:45 AM

I never read the second half of Animorphs, I quit reading them somewhere around #25 or something. Looking at the plot synopsis it wasn't that bad of an ending to the series. Actually, you know the best thing was the small things in that series, like how you could flip the book and see the person morph into the animal on the lower right hand corner where the page number is? That was boss.

I also read Redwall quite a bit, and Harry Potter although it wasn't until I was like eighteen I could actually finish that series despite my starting it when I was ten. I guess you can argue that Redwall's not a kids' series but usually when you have anthropomorphic talking animals (who don't swear; obviously a book like Blood Jaguar with a sassy lynx addicted to catnip is for young adults to adults) let's just say that they're probably aimed or marketed at kids and young adults but adults can enjoy them too. Yeah.

Actually that's often the doom of good books like Blood Jaguar: the themes are actually pretty adult but 99% of adults aren't going to pick up a book about a talking lynx and his talking skink and fisher buddies. It's sort of like what happens to Watership Down, which is quite violent and ends up dealing with a despotic regime near the end, but hey, it's about talking rabbits. Therefore kids end up reading it (and probably getting traumatized if they're too young

). It's even funnier when they end up reading Shardik or something because hey, it's by the same author, so it's for kids, right? That scene where Kelderek, who has developed into a priest king, kills Shardik's assassin's with his bare hands, beating one of the attacker's head against the floor until his skull cracks--that's kid lit right there, man!

03-31-2008, 08:45 AM	#18
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I never read the second half of Animorphs, I quit reading them somewhere around #25 or something. Looking at the plot synopsis it wasn't that bad of an ending to the series. Actually, you know the best thing was the small things in that series, like how you could flip the book and see the person morph into the animal on the lower right hand corner where the page number is? That was boss. I also read Redwall quite a bit, and Harry Potter although it wasn't until I was like eighteen I could actually finish that series despite my starting it when I was ten. I guess you can argue that Redwall's not a kids' series but usually when you have anthropomorphic talking animals (who don't swear; obviously a book like Blood Jaguar with a sassy lynx addicted to catnip is for young adults to adults) let's just say that they're probably aimed or marketed at kids and young adults but adults can enjoy them too. Yeah. Actually that's often the doom of good books like Blood Jaguar: the themes are actually pretty adult but 99% of adults aren't going to pick up a book about a talking lynx and his talking skink and fisher buddies. It's sort of like what happens to Watership Down, which is quite violent and ends up dealing with a despotic regime near the end, but hey, it's about talking rabbits. Therefore kids end up reading it (and probably getting traumatized if they're too young ). It's even funnier when they end up reading Shardik or something because hey, it's by the same author, so it's for kids, right? That scene where Kelderek, who has developed into a priest king, kills Shardik's assassin's with his bare hands, beating one of the attacker's head against the floor until his skull cracks--that's kid lit right there, man! __________________ The Valiant Review Last edited by Magus; 03-31-2008 at 08:49 AM.