yes

Fuck yes you are the most fantastically grimdark children's series ever.

>>4539031
Yes, why?

gateway furry

Yes. Didn't finish it. As I recall, OP's was one of the better books.

Meh, I only ever watch the show. I hated it.
Read a few of the books recently, but meh.

Shit started out kinda cool. Turned into horrible shit for a bit. Got grimdark and win as hell.

Best moment: when Marco finds out his mom is alive and a host for a yerk(sic) and decides to kill her. Shit was CASH.

>>4539062
Gateway SF, for me.

i developed several new fetishes while I was reading this series as a kid.

>>4539067
The show was an abortion and should be forgotten.

Ditto the video game, which largely has been.

I still have all the books. ALL the books.

I don't care if it was half ghostwritten, the books were great!

>>4539062

This is one troll that ALWAYS FUCKING GETS ME EVERY TIME. There were no anthromorphic animals. When they were part-way through morph they looked like some sort of hideous Island of Dr. Moreau creature.

Anyway. Yes. I got these every fucking month. First I read Goosebumps and then moved on to Animorphs. I fucking loved the aliens in these books. K.A. Applegate did a pretty good job making suitably unearthly aliens.

>>4539076
I think the first issue enforced my nudity fetish, shame it was only ever the guys.

>>4539080
half ghostwritten? Everything after 10 was.

I read Hork-Bajir Chronicles again recently. For those who never caught it, Yeerks arrive on planet full of Hork-Bajir, relatively dim, peaceful creatures with fearsome natural weapons, start enslaving them. Andalites show up, hopeless brutal slaughter-war ensues, Andalites decide to just exterminatus Hork-Bajir to deny them as hosts.

Shit is so cash.

>>4539098
Taxxons, just... Taxxons.

No Taxxons is why the show sucked, you know it to be true.

http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/1182261-ben-hopf-00

Entire series in free PDFs, for online viewan or downloadan.

>>4539098
Furries don't care if they're "halfway" or not.

Anyway, sage for Animorphs furries.

transformation is a sub-set of furry.

The urge to attempt to run a game of Animorphs in table top form is pretty damn strong. I have little idea how I would do it though. GURPS maybe?

I know I'd have my characters make their own kids to replace the main cast in that walk through the construction site. Would keep Ax though. He would probably feel like an DMPC, but fuck it. He was pretty damn integral to the team as he's the one who knew all about all the aliens and the technology and shit.

I enjoyed the Choose Your Own Adventure ones.

I regret nothing.

>>4539109
"I'M FUCKING HUNGRY"
"I'm your best friend!"
"I DON'T CARE I'M GOING TO FUCKING EAT YOU"

"I KILLED AND ATE EVERYTHING IN SIGHT AND I'M STILL FUCKING HUNGRY"
"I'm an alien slug."
"CAN I EAT YOU WHERE ARE YOU"
"In your brain. Sign over your species and you can have new and interesting forms of meat."
"FUCK YES"

>>4539116
>>4539118
>>4539062

same guy

>>4539115
Holy hell.

Thanks, anon.

>>4539123
nah, Ax would work fine. He's limited enough that he'd never really mess with the game, as long as you keep it all on earth.

>>4539129
That's it, I'm using Taxxons in my next DnD campaign.

>>4539115
Register? What is this shit?

>>4539123

Nah, don't do that. Just have the player most familiar with animorphs play as an alien. Rebel yeerk with a psychopathic host, a Chee, heck, even just an andalite.

>>4539109

The reason why it sucked was the lack of aliens all together. They only ever showed Visser III's upper body and the occasional shot of a Hork Bajir torso or feet.

>>4539106

Sure, Alloran was a pretty fucking brutal commander, but if he had been in charge when the Yeerks escaped and free to do his thing, the whole Yeerk war would have never started. He could have just threatened the escaped Yeerks with hitting their homeworld with a Quantum Virus if they did not comply with releasing stolen ships and hosts. The Yeerks war probably wouldn't have escalated so far if Aldrea hadn't just blown up with the rest of her family. Without her there would be no Hork Bajir resistance and without that the Yeerks probably would have found the Arn a lot sooner. If the Yeerks had infested some Arn bioengineers, they could have been able to build their own hosts and the entire moral righteousness the Yeerks felt they had with the war would fall through. No need for enslaved hosts would mean no need for war for the majority of Yeerks.

Tobias was a hardcore motherfucker, getting trapped in hawk form.

The setting for Animorphs is essentially a Sci-Fi World of Darkness.

>>4539115
Highly recommended:
All Chronicles books - grimdark space opera with aliens and shapeshifting.
Megamorphs #3 and #4 - extreme grimdarkness and some of the best written.

The first fifteen or so books in the series are guaranteed WIN even with the inconsistencies and the series finding its feet. After that, there are lots of ghostwritten books, with great variation in quality although surprisingly few actual inconsistencies.

The final arc is magnificently brutal, highlights including a bunch of disabled kids morphed into animals sent on a hopeless diversionary charge against entrenched Yeerk positions and killed one by one from orbit, the flushing of millions of sentient creatures into hard vacuum, and open war between humans and hypertech aliens who already control everything. Also, the ending's a downer which kind of makes no sense.

>disabled kids morphed into animals sent on a hopeless diversionary charge against entrenched Yeerk positions and killed one by one from orbit

>>4539173
The Yeerks couldn't infest them so they used them as target practice.

>>4539177
more like emohawk

tobias was annoying as hell, regardless of if he was justified.

>>4539151

Holy fuck. I had never thought about it but Taxxons would compliment Neogi incredibly well. Hell, the Neogi could ride them into battle.

>>4539173
>If the Yeerks had infested some Arn bioengineers, they could have been able to build their own hosts and the entire moral righteousness the Yeerks felt they had with the war would fall through. No need for enslaved hosts would mean no need for war for the majority of Yeerks.

No. What >>4539188 said, plus Yeerks are fundamentally dicks. They believe "im in ur brain, controllin' ur body" is their Manifest Destiny.

>>4539129

Taxxons are a bit more emo then that. I think that they had massive nest things.

However, it's still butt fuck awesome.

>>4539192
Until one of them starts bleeding.

I'm thinking homebrewing the things from scratch, and, just to drive the creep factor up a thousandfold? I'm making the damn things speak common.

>>4539188

They altered themselves so they couldn't be infested. If they didn't have the time to alter themselves than Yeerk worlds would be chock full of Build-a-Host Workshops. The Yeerks would have essentially changed into the Iskoort from that book with the Howlers in it.

>>4539190
The bit where he was getting tortured in #33 was pretty cash.

>>4539180
The ending was KA Applegate desperately trying to kill the characters off while she still had control of the property. She knew if she dropped the series while they were still alive Scholastic could just hire the ghostwriters again and continue to sell the series without her name for another 50 books.

Tobias was emo before I knew what emo was. And yet, I don't hate him for it because he had some small degree of gar as well.

>>4539180
Fuck you, I loved the ending. It fit.

>>4539180
yeah, the end was a major letdown. 'we have to rush off and save ax, let's end it now.'

Anyone else remember the Helmacrons?

>>4539247
No. Enlighten me.

I read these up to the 20's-ish and some of the chronicles. That shit went on way too long though (into 50s if I remember?). Also it supposedly ended the entire series on a cliffhanger, because you know, why not be a giant douche. But like I said I stopped way before then because it was starting to drag on.

>>4539251
/b/, except 1mm tall and with spaceships.

Did Jake ever use the Howler form again, incidentally, outside of the one Howler book? I didn't get to finish the series, but I know he acquired one, and those fuckers were monstrous in a multitude of ways. (then again, the Ellimist could have magicked it away from him, smug alien god bastard that he was...)

Fuck saving the world, I'd just morph into a crab and smoke.

Crazed psychic ant people who killed their leaders in order to have the race absorb their memory.

Fucking small as well.

>>4539229
They altered themselves pretty early on when they meet the horse chick I'm not sure it would have made a difference.
Remember the yeerks chasing them in is what made them interested in the mist place in the first place.
Fucken monsters in the mist.

>>4539211
You descend into the dark tunnel, the only visible light coming from biolumiescent moss and your own torches. All of a sudden, you hear a skittering noise, followed by
FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD MEAT MEAT FOOD MEAT FOOD MEAT FOOD MEAT in an unholy chorus, a hundred inhuman voices, screaming in unison. Then, you see them, their bodies are fat, sluglike, with more legs than you can count, and, on their heads are a ring of red eyes, all around a mouth that is nothing but teeth, clacking together as the chanting continues, the creatures swarming from every hole.

"I shoot an arrow at one."

The arrow hits, breaking their soft flesh and bringing out a slimy ichor. The chanting becomes frenzied, as the injured monstrosity attempts to eat it's own wound, it's allies more than happy to help. There is a swarm of fleshy bodies, a clacking of teeth and then, there's nothing left of the injured creature but a smear of Ichor, on the walls, on the ceiling, on the floor, on the faces of it's companions.

The chant renews, and more are approaching.

>>4539257
No. He never used it again, never mentioned it again, I also assumed that Ellimist magicked it away.

Read a fanfic once which had pretty good tactical use of it, and of Alloran's more monstrous mor- fuck shit I never read fanfic it's a lie

>>4539230

That was intense. I went and reread it and I almost feel that scene really shouldn't have been in a children's book series. That box where they could stimulate the pain receptors in your body and force you to relive the worst parts of your life or stimulate the pleasure centers and make you relive the best parts of your life. And that Sub-Visser just kept going back and forth with those setting. Your picking and eating blackberries with your loved ones. NO, NOW YOU ARE ARE BEING BRUTALLY BEATEN BY YOUR CHILDHOOD BULLY. Ice Cream! FIRE!

Tobias was being driven insane. He broke his wings from thrashing around so much and the pain from it all was so great that he shit himself. There aren't many children's books where one of the main characters is in so much pain he shits himself.

>>4539180
I'll compile a list of the Must-Reads from the Ghost-written portion.

20-22 is the David trilogy and is some intense shit about the creation of a new Animorph and the repercussions.

26 reveals a lot about the Yeerks and the events going on in the larger scale of the setting.

30 is about Marco, which means it's worth reading. He's the most fleshed out and complex of the characters, and makes some of the most difficult decisions of them all.

35 is more Marco, continuing the plotline involving his parents.

45-53, starts with some more Marco and follows on into the events that the series closes with. Shit goes insane, Animorphs resort to domestic terrorism, use cripples as cannon fodder, really messed up shit.

>>4539267
Well that was kind of OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK RUNRUNRUNRUNRUN.

Because we're all like level 5 right now.

Ellimist was a mary-sue

I never finished the series, so how does it end?

I'm assuming that the Andalites and Humans beat out the Yeerks in the end, right?

>>4539291
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU~

>>4539294
kind of...

>>4539275
Not many children's book series have people turning into ants and losing their minds from it. Or kids finding bits of throat stuck between their teeth after demorphing. Or actual, un-glossed-over honest to goodness genocide. Lots of things have malevolent alien slugs controlling everything, but it doesn't have them going insane from Kandrona starvation and killing their dying brothers (and their hosts) to keep the secret.

Animorphs was mature in a deliciously grimdark way.

>>4539289
And that, anon, is how you make minions scare the piss out of a player.

>>4539294
Rachel dies, everybody splits up as the last of the Yerks who want to fight run the fuck away because the Andalites have arrived. The main characters all go back to being rather normal (LOLYEAHRIGHT) before being recruited again to go hunt down the escaped Blade ship. Then ending is them going into RAMMING SPEED to run into the fucker.

>>4539280
>26 reveals a lot about the Yeerks and the events going on in the larger scale of the setting.
Not really, brah. Good book, but asked way more questions than it answered.

Also, not ALL the books after 20 were ghostwritten (the David trio weren't, I'm pretty sure.) Just way too many.

>>4539269
just like the dino dna from their trip back in time.

>>4539294
HA
HA
HA

NO.

Rachel dies badly; Animorphs kill a genocide's worth of Yeerks; Yeerks give up, elect to be permamorphed into butterflies; Andalites aquire human morphs, open fast-food chains on home planet; TIMESKIP FALLS, ANIMORPHS DIE.

>>4539312
>The main characters all go back to being rather normal
By OHYEAHRIGHT, anon means:
Jake: Haunted by his decisions, hates himself, miserable, thousand-yard-stare guy, like a spooky old veteran but sixteen.
Tobias: completely retreats from his friends and his humanity, more or less becomes a hawk.
Marco: Celebrity, showbiz whore, genuinely happy.
Ax: Goes back to his people, war hero, misses his human friends.
Cassie: some fucking hiker or something, I dunno.

>>4539312
Rachel's death.

I cried like a baby. Damn.

>>4539291

More like a Mary-Q. Applegate is a pretty full-on trekkie.

>>4539294
Rachel dies after being sent by Jake to kill his brother. War ends, Visser 3 (now 1) gets put on trial at the Hague and sentenced to life with min imum 300 years before parole. Remaining yeerks get given the chance to permanently morph into something else and live as a sentient Earth creature. Same with the taxxons, other than the former andalite (who is later killed by poachers). Ax becomes a war-prince and gets taken by some bizarre god-thing deep out in space. Jake, Cassie and Marco reassemble to fight it, along with Tobias who went into hiding following Rachel's death. Series ends with them about to ram the ship of the god-alien.

>>4539280

Man, the last few books were grim as shit. Stop reading if you don't want mega spoilers.

When Jake and Ax steal the jet and nuke their hometown. Then right after they start using their full names and telling you where they are. So good.

>>4539302
This sounds fantastically relevant to my interests.

Oh yeah. Good books. How many times did it describe the intense pain of dying a violent death? A lot?

And one of the later books has them loading bombs onto a subway train and driving it into a Yeerk pool chamber.

>>4539349
The writing is kind of simplistic, and the large fonts might throw you a loop if you're not used to them.

Prelim:

Taxxon: MEdium Size
Level 8 minion
Defenses straight out of the DMG guidelines.
Bite: Again, straight out of the DMG guidelines.
Feeding Frenzy: Taxxon and all adjacent Taxxons get a +3 to attack and damage rolls against bloodied targets.

Taxxon Swarm: Gargantuan Lvl 10 Brute
Defenses/HP according to DMG
Basic attack: Bite
Special (recharge 4): Bodyslam. STR vs Fortitude, knock target prone.
Does 6 damage to adjacent prone enemies.
Feeding Frenzy: Taxxon Swarm and all adjacent Taxxons get +4 to attack and damage rolls against bloodied targets.

>>4539348
As I recall, the nuking the hometown was threatened, but they didn't actually do it. Something about stopping the Yeerks bringing on WW3 to remove the "excess population". They blew up the middle of their town with conventional bombs, loaded onto subway trains. Massacred a hell of a lot of innocent bystanders.

>>4539129
Sounds like a Khorne worshiper, but with more eating.

>>4539302

Oh shit. That reminded me. Visser III had a twin who was just as fucked up as he was. Instead of being a maniacal tyrant, he was the Yeerk Hannible Lecter. He figured out that if a host eats another Yeerk, than the Yeerk controlling the host will get his daily recommended dose of Kandronna. So he breaks free from the Yeerks, takes a host body and spends his days tracking down Controllers and probably cracking open their heads to get to the sweet, delicious, Kandronna filled Yeerk inside. Also, his host is human and is a multi-millionaire.

That book is kinda fuzzy to me though. How did the Animorphs end up dealing with him? I forgot if they killed him or not. I do think I remember them consoling one of the kids who's parent was a Controller and got his brain eaten though.

/tg/ read this as children.

This explains so, so much about us.

>>4539031
Furfag gateway.
Also, this isn't a /tg/ topic.

>>4539382
They said that he would only be safe inside his mansion, then they burned it down. After that he's never mentioned again.

>>4539392
Eighty posts in, you post this shit?

Fuck you and the high horse you rode in on.

>>4539371
Of course it's simplistic with large font. It's a KIDS book. Doesn't change the fact that it was fucking awesome though.

>>4539382

His house gets mysteriously destroyed and he goes missing some months later. It's implied that either Jake or Cassie may have killed him, but it's left open-ended.

>>4539382
And is also probably Bill Gates.

>>4539392
see my posts.

Yes it is.

>>4539388
Now that I think about it? Yeah, it kinda does.

>>4539378

I remember that threatened to nuke but just ended up blowing up the mall with the yeerk pool under it with regular bombs then, finding out that that didn't work they used the subway car and became terroris...freedom fighters.

>>4539414
Nah, he's the founder of AOL. "Web Access America" lawl.

Bill Gates is actually namedropped. He was Elfangor's drinking buddy, back in the day.

Applegate wrote Everworld as well didn't she? Modern kids get yanked into world where all the gods fled. Have to deal with OH HOLY FUCK IT'S MERLIN AND OMG THE GODS ARE SUCH USELESS DICKS. WTF IS HE EATING ANOTHER GOD?

>>4539401

Ah, so the Yeerks probably hunted him down and executed him via Kandronna starvation. I remember Visser III saying that some of the better Yeerk torturers could extend the starvation for weeks.

Although an Esplin Chronicles would have been pretty badass. I don't think pitching a kid's book about a multi-species serial killer/cannibal would have been easy though.

>>4539414

No, Bill was in The Andalite Cronicles. Elfangor helped him make Windows 3.1. Also he got what's her face (Tobias' mom) preggers.

also HOW DID YOU TAKE OFF YOUR HOOF!

>>4539436
And the series where thirty kids are all that's left of the human race and are stuck on what's basically a Daemon world.

Only read a couple, were they any good?

>>4539388

You know, it occurs to me that I wanted my mom to read this series.

Seeing how she banned me from pokemon and mighty morphin power rangers, It is probably a good thing that she did not.

In truth, it's a wonder i'm such a functional member of /tg/ today.

>>4539341
I felt the same way about Rob Stark.

Actually, when I read the words where he was hit in the chest by a crossbow, I was like, "WHAT." Then I re-read it a couple times, and then I was like "it's okay, it's okay, merely a flesh wound, he can survive a single crossbow bolt to the chest."

And... well, you guys know what happened next.

>>4539436
"Give me your apples," the pig said. "Give me your apples, or I'll gut you, one by one."
We gave him our apples.

>>4539375

Remember that although vicious, they were also known for being prone to bursting open upon being hit with just about anything.

>>4539447
Everworld was pretty short, only like 8 books or so if I remember right. I never read the one you're talking about. I know what books you're talking about but I can't remember the name of the series.

>>4539468
Remnants.

>>4539466
Hence them being either minions or swarms.

The way I play swarms, cinematically, is that there is ONE creature for each hitpoint. You do 6 damage to a swarm, there goes 6 taxxons, eaten by their comrades, who are STILL hungry, and coming closer.

So, keeping that in mind, thoughts? I wanted the swarm to be a bit more intimidating than just a ton of the little guys would be.

>>4539476
Is that it? I'll have to hit up the library for the first book. I like Applegate.

Anyways, Everworld was pretty good for a kids/young adult/whatever fucking name they're using now series. Ends pretty abruptly though.

>>4539447

Ah, Remnants. Good times. The first book starts with an meteor racing toward the Earth. Some uys at NASA manage to pull an old rocket out of storage, put some new doo-dads on it like hibernation technology and send out important and influential people and their families into space. It was a last ditch hope and nobody really thinks it would work.

Meteor hits the planet and kills everyone and the rocket ship gets picked by a giant spaceship that is a relic of a now dead species. Its huge and run by an insane super computer. She tries to make us happy by simulating all the culture and stuff we loaded onto the ship with her advanced hologram/force field projectors. Unfortunately she barely understands us and ends up loading up some Hieronymus Bosch demons from hell thing. in one of the nodes. She essentially creates hell for a little while because she thinks we want her to.

>>4539476
All I remember of that was the really creepy psychic kid making war with the god, the blue power-armoured dudes with flechettte guns and giant blades fighting the screeching savages with spears on hoverboards, and the Marine with her eyes burned out being controlled by her laughing chaos baby, floating next to her still attached by its umbilical.

I need to find those books again.

>>4539513
Oh! And the Bosch painting coming to life.

>>4539521
...seriously?

>>4539536
Seriously.

He didn't need to change into an animal.

>>4539468
Remnants.

God, after reading the first one of that series, I couldn't touch it for a week. That fucking worm thing in the guy's leg... Ugh.

Of course, now that I think of it, that would make a nice 'disease' to sick on the PCs when I run my next game.

So wait, what's this about ghostwriting? You mean all those stories I read as a kid weren't actually written by the author? How'd you guys find out?

>>4539581
Applegate only wrote like 20 books out of the entire series man. It's a pretty well known fact. I'm sure wikipedia has an article on it.

>>4539581
"The author would like to thank X for his/her help in preparing this manuscript."
It's by the dedication in every ghostwritten book, brah.

>>4539581

She starts acknowledging people for "their help in preparing this manuscript" part-way through.

>>4539556

Well, no offense to Col. O'Neele, but he is a grown man with military training who is part of a program with huge funding fighting against aliens on far away planets.

Animorphs were kids and everyone they have ever known could be controlled by the enemy.

Yerks could of turned into Sentient Elephants and basically become massive dicks to the human population.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3844550/Vegemorphs

I have that somewhere. Troll publishing lol.

>>4539560
>>4539513
>>4539504
Remnants sounds incredible, where can I get hold of it?

>>4539659
http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/remnants/

>>4539640

I know it's a troll book, but it's still painful to read.

>>4539665
Less than one minute.

I fucking love you, anon.

>>4539599
>>4539610
>>4539615

I see. I never knew. Then again I read the series as a little kid, so I barely remember what the hell happened in the books.

>>4539638

No they couldn't.

Elephant guns and what not.

>>4539669
All the covers seem to involve fucked up kids in various states of mutation/disrepair.

I think I'm really going to enjoy this.

>>4539635
O'Neill, with 2 'l's.

But yeah, Mom's a bit Stargate fan, I'm a big Animorphs fan, and I kept comparing the Goa'uld to Yerks when we'd watch Stargate together.

>>4539436
I loved the Everworld books, I actually liked them more than animorphs (I'm an anon up there somewhere, one who ended in the 20's) but maybe thats because they didn't drag on forever.

Bugged the shit out of me that the last book was like, okay its over, but wait, no its not. And then the lack of further books said, wait, yes it is. She could have ended it with a satisfying ending easily, but she didn't, and then didn't write any more damn books.

>>4539675
Elephant guns are rare, and being sentient they could do a sneak attack at night with torches. I mean a torch wielding elephant comes trampling through your village in middle the night you think you'll get that Elephant Gun? If you do how are you going to shoot in middle the night?

>>4539686
You will. The cast of Remnants make Animorphs' characters look well adjusted and human, and they drop dead of various awful things left, right and centre. The setting is profoundly fucked up and trippy, the anon up there who described it as a daemon world is not far off.

Overall I preferred Animorphs, because it was both more true SF and dealt with the real world somewhat, but Remnants is also excellent.

>>4539730
Shoot at the torch.

Duh.

Well, while we are talking about childrens books how about these /tg/? I only ever read the first few and would love to get my hands on the last ones. Ice Vikings and shadows for guardians is awesome.

>>4539723
>Bugged the shit out of me that the last book was like, okay its over, but wait, no its not. And then the lack of further books said, wait, yes it is. She could have ended it with a satisfying ending easily, but she didn't, and then didn't write any more damn books.
Sounds like Animorphs to me.

>>4539755
I'm going to guess you've forgotten your image.

>>4539755

Missing your pic, but I've got a feeling I know what you're talking about.

>>4539755

forgot mah pic

>>4539764
>>4539770
>>4539773

oh you guys...

>>4539747
With it waving in the air it'll distract you, enough time to be stomped on by an Elephant. Or better yet the Elephant throws it on to one the huts and catches the entire village on fire. Now imagine not one but an entire herd or several herds. Start using weapons likes guns they could very well take over Africa. Somehow develop means of technology can you say space elephants?

The Iskoort book was fucking epic.

"...will disorient you and numb your senses. If he gets close he'll use the drop-down teeth in his upper jaw. He's not as fast as-"

"Wait, what do you mean by "disorient you and numb your senses?"

"That's why they're called Howlers, Jake."

>>4539638
Taxxons deciding to turn into pythons was so cash.

'You know something, I really LIKE to eat things. I just don't want to eat my friends. What's that? I get to turn into an improved version of me with strong muscles that can take hits and crush shit? And a few of us can bit and release poison? And the only thing we don't have to do is eat humans? Hell yes.'

Amazing. The trainwreck in the brainslug pool. BEAUTIFUL

God, I fucking love Animorphs so much.

oh shit this brings up so many memories. animorphs was awesome, especially the 3 "chronicles". damn i loved those books.

>>4539267

i am torn between laughter and fear

The Animorphs books were so fucking gory and disturbing. There was some real mindfuck shit going on regarding moral choices and beings who played real life spore.

These books were the shit

>>4539898
Crocodile would be better, become giant Salties and live for hundred+ years and get to eat just about anything.

>>4539773
FUCK THE ENDING. OH DEAR JESUS. FUCK THAT ENDING! FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK YOU GARTH NIX!

When I was in elementary school, I used to dream about going halfway through one of the transformations and stay in it for two hours.

I... I can't make this shit up... oh god...

The Hork-Bajir chronicles was the best book.

I hated those stupid fucking dog aliens and their robots. They were so advanced eveyone else was basically just a joke to them, but they decided that they weren't going to fight against their attackers but instead potentially doom the entire galaxy or whatever to extinction at the hands of whoever felt like destroying them first.

And the one where they made that robot on earth remove his inhibition to kill but he decided that omgz it was so emotinally scarring he'd rather potentially let the entire planet get DESTROYED than help the fight against the invaders.

I fucking hated those guys.

>>4540086
Maybe I should add a line about 'As you stumble back in surprise, you scrape your knee.'

>>4540146
Hey fuck you man. You have to admire their convictions. And at least the Chee didn't decide to just ignore the Animorphs. They actively spied and helped them out while at risk of being captured and boosting Yeerk tech.

>>4539773
Oh that author does some cool shit.

>>4540173
I have a hard time admiring someone who would let me and my family and my entire species killed and my planet blown up rather than raise his hands to defend us when he could and it poses no realistic danger to him.

I mean, seriously, the jeerks couldn't defeat a rag band of circus animals, there's no way they could've stopped indestructible andriods.

>>4540210
He does, but GOD his endings... Sabriel wasn't so bad, it had sequels, and the sequels actually ended.

Garth Nix ends books on what some writers would consider a good chapter end. Hell, he ended a SERIES with something that would have made a great book end, but a TERRIBLE series end. For months, I looked for another book, just one more book, I had to know how it turned out, but not that was it, there were no more.

FUCK YOU GARTH NIX! FUCK YOU FROM THE DEPTH OF MY PRETEEN SELF'S HEART!

>>4540230
I never finished anything except that really fucked up one with the 'Meat Factories' and bio-constructs

>>4540146
They were actually forbidden from violence by their creator, the Ellimist. Now I know alot of us aren't very good Christians, but if God himself came down and stood right in front of you and said "Do not commit violence ever again" you would listen to him.

Also, oatmeal madness.

Maple oatmeal replaces the Yeerk's brainstem. Hilarious.

>>4540287
>their creator, the Ellimist

Really? What a dick.

>>4539792
I loved that series a lot as a kid, but i only got the first 3 books. then i found the rest of it as a 17 year old and finished it. the biology was a little nuts, but the series as a whole was a great time.

So I went to the link provided eariler and re-read the first book.

GOD DAMN GAR!!
SO MUCH RED-BLOODED ALIEN STOMPING WIN!!!

I LOVE IT!!!

>>4540298

The Ellimist is something a pacifist version of Tzeentch/Eldrad. Crayak of course is just plain Tzeentch.

>>4540301
THERE WAS MORE?!

yeah, like...56 books or so.

>>4540146
What kills me is that, considering the robots they created were so strong because the were made to withstand the gravity on their planet, the Pemalites should have been capable of killing most things with there bare hands. A Pemalite might have been able to take a Howler in one-on-one fight.

read the entire series. manly ending, though maybe a touch disapointing at the very end

was going to run a world-jumping game and have the animorph world be one, and allow one of the characters to gain the power to morph (as well as give similar offers to other characters later on)

>>4540450
That could be a bullshit power depending on the player.
"I roll to touch the 9 headed pyro-hydra"

>>4540382

indeed, I want to find it soooo bad.

>>4540532
God, I thought it ended at 3, I... damn, I've spent almost a decade hating that man over this.

There's a bookstore next to my job, they have a bunch of stuff I didn't know existed (There was an Abhorsen short story collection) I MUST search.

>>4539106
all of the _________ Chronicles books are excellent, I still shed a tear towards the ends of those things.

Dang, it sounds like I dropped out just before things really got awesome.

The one that stuck with me the most was the one where narrated by Jake where they steal a bug fighter(that is what the mainstay yerk spaceships were called, isn't it) and accidentally go back in time by a day or two along with visser 3 and his ship, crash land in the amazon and eventually wind up dying, which resolves the paradox caused by the time travel and then Jake's consiousness snaps back to the situation near the begining of the book and he's like, maybe this isn't such a good idea. I guess it was the idea of him being the same person in two places in a messed up timeline and occasionally slipping between the two; that got me thinking when I was eleven.

In some ways, it all somehow seems cooler in retrospect now than it did at the time ten years ago.

>>4540366
Am I the only one who thought the Crayak was creepy as hell.

It lives at the moment between life adn death. It's a monolith on a throne with a giant eye at the to-IT'S LOOKING AT ME IT'S LOOKING AT ME NOOOOOOOOOO!

>>4540598
Hey, that happened in Dark Tower III: The Waste Land.

>>4540662

Bonus points, both characters are called Jake.

>>4540734
o lawd

>The final image broadcast was from a link lying sideways. The lens was speckled with dust.
But the image was still clear: Cordelia lay on her side, her face shocked. She looked down and
saw the two-by-four that had been driven through her chest. She shuddered and died."
-Remnants, Book 1.

I'm sorry, this is a KID'S book??

>>4540532

see

>>4539115

>>4540778

Applegate pretty much followed her audience as they aged.

Remnants was more a teenage series than a kids book. Everything in it was pretty much BRUTAL. One of the main characters walked around missing a finger that was eaten off in book two and their main muscle was connected to a baby that had no eyes.

A TV series of remnants would have been absolute nightmare fuel.

>>4540778
Awesome, right?

>>4540778

I recall these books.

I recall them well.

In fact, I am looking at the entire series right now, sitting on one of the shelves of my personal archives.

>>4540778
Not kid, 'young adult'.

Just got done with an Animorphs refresher course compliments of wikipedia. Reading about these alien races' histories kinda reminds me of Scientology lore.

Ha...speaking of my archives, I found my Dinotopia books.

All of them.

Man, does that bring back memories.

Remnants? What is this?

>>4540778
Oh, Applegate, you gave me so many wonderful nightmares.

>>4540959

A book series about the earth being destroyed by an asteroid, and the people sent up in a ghetto-rigged space shuttle to try and preserve the species. The book series details the awesome that happens, from space psykers, to this gigantic Mothership named Mother, to mutations of chaos, even returning to the ruins of earth.

>>4540734
OH SNAP!

>>4540836
..I wouldn't want to read that at ANY age.

Okay, we need two things:

We need howlers statted into Dark Heresy (perfect killing machines who think that murder and vivisection are a game, created by an immortal evil from outside the universe, how can you /not/ stat this is Dark Heresy)

We need Charter and Free magic alternate rules for a D&D edition of your choice.

looking back on what I read as a kid I am totally no longer surprised by my current taste in fiction and hobbies.

Read insane Sci-Fi and Steampunk
Become an Absurdist with morals that make The Comedian look like Gandhi.

Is she still running?

>>4540956
Dinotopia is fuckwin.

The miniseries is not.

Writing, I meant writing. My brain just farted out a baby x-x

>>4540998
Keep in mind that the Howlers didn't think of that in an evil or sadistic sense. They literally had no idea that the things they were killing were actual living, thinking beings.

>>4540778
Yeah see... parents these days don't fucking read books. Or even pay attention to them beyond what the cover looks like. So they don't complain about a book being too gory, or having sex or anything. Out of sight, out of mind.

Basically what it comes down to is that most people, and imo, most people in the older generations, are exceptionally stupid.

>>4541042
Stop your bitching, it's 'young adult' not a 'kids' book.

>>4541008

The TV Miniseries, admittedly, was rather bad.

I am glad I have the memories of the books as opposed to fleeting glimpses of the TV series.

>>4540836

I remember reading that stuff, the army woman's mutant baby, the Troika mutations, hell the mutations in general. It never really bothered me or scared me.

>>4541028
that's what makes them so damn excellent, that and the swivel torso, which is just plain cool.

>>4541042
That might actually be true. I owned quite a few erotic novels when I was thirteen, my friends were all getting busted for looking at porn on the internet while my parents are still under the impression I've always been a gentleman.

K. A. Applegate wrote a series called "Making Out."

WAT?
Titles follow:
1. Zoey Fools Around
2. Jake Finds Out
3. Nina Won't Tell
4. Ben's In Love
5. Claire Gets Caught
6. What Zoey Saw
7. Lucas Gets Hurt
8. Aisha Goes Wild
9. Zoey Plays Games
10. Nina Shapes Up
11. Ben Takes a Chance
12. Claire Can't Lose
13. Don't Tell Zoey
14. Aaron Lets Go
15. Who Loves Kate?
16. Lara Gets Even
17. Two-Timing Aisha
18. Zoey Speaks Out
19. Kate Finds Love
20. Never Trust Lara
21. Trouble with Aaron
22. Always Loving Zoey
23. Lara Gets Lucky
24. Now Zoey's Alone
25. Don't Forget Lara
26. Zoey's Broken Heart
27. Falling for Claire
28. Zoey Comes Home

>>4541181
Some pretty self explanatory titles there.

Any good erotic fiction?

>>4541195
Yeah, I'm thinking the audience knew what they were in for.

>>4541181
Well that's not nearly as good!

>>4541089
Lol'd hard at my parents when I was a kid. I wasn't allowed to own M rated video games or watch movies, but I could read novels with a half-page description of a man's head being destroyed by a 9mm bullet.

>>4541258
>man's head being destroyed by a 9mm bullet.
>head being destroyed
>9mm bullet

laughingelfman.jpg

>>4541258

That sucks. My parents gave me free reign to do whatever I felt I needed, provided I did not die. I believe they were trying to teach me how to make my own rational, logical decisions. Thus nothing was off limits, no question taboo.

All erotic fiction is crap.

Was there ever any sex in the series? I can't remember any, but I wasn't really paying attention at the age when I read it. There was something going on between Jake and Cassie, and maybe Rachel and Marco...

God i loved these books. my mate and i were just talking about them a few days ago. the words of my childhood.

>>4541279
>no question taboo.

Fuck yes that's how you raise a damn kid properly.

Go back and thank those motherfuckers.

Goddam, manly tears.

>>4540287
Instant maple and ginger flavoured oatmeal.

It's not entirely clear whether it's the maple, ginger or instant that does the trick; probably all three.

>>4541339
>RachelxMarco
lolwut? RachelXTobias is canon.

>>4541258
How I started reading books:

Video Store:
"Hey ma, can I hire Alien?"
"No. It's rated M. You can't see anything that's rated M until you're fifteen."

Book Store:
"Hey ma, can you buy me Alien: The Novel?"
"Okay."

>>4541268
If you're trying to suggest that a 9mm hollowpoint round could not fuck somebody up royally, you are a massive faggot.

>>4541470
It wasn't stated that the round was a hollow point, cockeater.

I...I do not think I'll do much sleeping tonight. I forgot how fucked up these books were.

>>4541524
It wasn't stated that it *wasn't*, nadlicker.

>>4541556
Who you calling a nadlicker, assmuncher?

>>4541556
If bullet type isnt specified it is assumed it is standard.