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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
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and it was poorly written in a lot of places?
like, jake figured out tom was a controller because tom scratched his ear
They couldn't show the aliens.
They couldn't show the animals fighting anything.
They couldn't show violence.
They couldn't have the animals really interacting with the humans except to have them touching.
By making it live action they basically couldn't do anything.
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And if you brought em to school to read, people wanted to see em cause they know they had the neat little flip-book animation in the bottom right corner.
Flip the pages and Jake turns into a lizard omigosh
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*Backwood Folk *Eve of the Ozarks *Tumblr
THE ANIMORPHS.
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It was basically lord of the flies violent until adults stepped in after a week of bruised kids and put a stop to it.
Kids throwing rocks and kicking and pushing each other on equipment, and that was just to decide on who would be today's Yeerks.
I remember someone immediately followed me on a big slide, catching my head with their feet, flooring me into the pebble ground.
It was ant aliens who sent the meteorite to broccoli aliens because the Animorphs turned into T-Rexs and wrecked their space ship.
It was not until this day that I realized how much Animorph information my brain has retained.
I mean, he manages to morph back in time somehow, but damn that was dark and really got to me as a kid.
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remember monster blood?
that shit was crazy
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
i never read the everworld series but weren't they all about children getting skinned alive by spaceships and shit like that
i read up to about book twenty-something as a kid before stopping, then read the ending of the last book when i saw it at a book fair a few years later
apparently i dipped out before things got really bonkers, now i want to go back and read everything. i still have a pretty sizeable stack of them at home.
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was there even a single animorphs book that wasn't amazing
do you remember visser three having way better morphs than anyone else because he'd been through space collecting the most dangerous predators from every world
so jake shifts into like a tiger or whatever his battle morph was and visser three responds by becoming a pterodactyl with laser eyes and chainsaw wings and taunting him through thought speech about how weak his shit is
do you remember the one where they go inside marco's body to chase the helmacrons and he's a huge dick about it the whole time and morphs into a cockroach while they're in there and almost kills everyone by squishing them in his tiny cockroach heart
and then when they get out they take turns berating the guy for his idiocy and then someone realizes that earlier in the book he'd been infected with rabies and if he hadn't shapeshifted when he did to purge the rabies from his system he probably would have died from it
but they don't tell marco because he'll get smug about it
fuck, animorphs was amazing
I read the whole Everworld series. It really started to fall apart towards the end. I'm not sure what happened exactly, but it felt like Applegate got bored with the series halfway through and decided to wrap it up as quickly as she could. The result was a lackluster ending.
I also read two or three books into Remnants. It seemed like a fairly interesting concept. Starts off with the extinction of pretty much the entire human race except for those sent out in space-arks that were supposed to preserve humanity. Except almost everyone on the arks dies in stasis except for like 20 people who make up the cast of the books. Who all wake up aboard a strange and menacing alien spacecraft controlled by a rogue AI.
Oh, and one of the guys on the ark never went under during stasis. One chapter goes into detail about what it was like for him to be trapped in stasis, fully conscious but unable to move for like 500 years while the arks drifted through space. Somehow it resulted in him gaining psychic powers.
God she could be depressing.
Ender's (Movie Tie-in) Game for PS3 and Xbox 360 should be about choosing between two drinks offered by a giant. And maybe drowning some wolf children.
The animorphs helped the dinosaurs to build a ship to stop the meteorite, then at the last second sabotaged the mission somehow because they realized that the dinosaurs failed here, causing the future to happen the way it was.
Say one thing about Time Travel in Animorphs, at least it's consistent: infinite time-loops.
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I didn't read that many actual goosebumps books
but I read basically every choose your own adventure goosebumps book there was
and there were quite a few
I dunno if you can say it was "Without merit."
It taught me at a very young age that there are indeed fates worse than death, I cannot think of any other contemporary literature I read around that time which drove that point home.
Unless there was a second book involving rachel and david. I think the one where they 'punish' david was among the last I ever read.
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Goosebumps
I think I had 40+ of those damn things
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
I think this was posted earlier and while the show was bad, the intro is corny and I like it. My favourite part being the CG Yeerk on the ear that they give up on after half a second.
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Then I got into Michael Crichton, and was basically done with YA fiction until I was like 23.
Now a group of teens and an alien forming a militia to take down a secret alien invasion, that was fine with me.
This was basically me. Though I did still keep a steady stream of those trashy Forgotten Realms novels coming in on the side until I finished high school.
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Hahaha, I did the exact same fuckin' thing.
I was fully cognizant of the fact that they were terrible, but I just couldn't stop. The amount of time/effort I spent tracking down Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad is stone-cold shameful.
Live action? The hell were you thinking! Seriously! The hell!
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The Drizzt books are by and large just bad though. R.A. Salvatore is bad at writing fighting scenes, and thinks he isn't, so throws them everywhere.
He's alright at worldbuilding though, or used to be anyway. I know people hate on drow, and for good reason, but that first book in the Drizzt origin trilogy is some solid setting establishment and development. In addition to being a bad, trashy, fun fantasy novel. The other two aren't great though.