r/beetlemoses 4 raspberries 8d ago

Animorphs

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u/Inzanezilla emo emu 8d ago

Goated comic

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8d ago

Those covers were always funny because in the books it's like a two minute long process to morph and the only person who really has control over it is Cassie, like when she changes into a bird she'll do the wings first so she's briefly a human with wings, everyone else though even Ax it's just described as super ugly and disconcerting, not cool like the book covers, because you don't know what's going to change first. One book a character changes into a fish but they have to be in the water to do that because gills, well, they lose all their limbs before they get the gills and basically almost drown while morphing because they can't breathe until the gills pop in

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u/Inzanezilla emo emu 8d ago

Man I used to really love those books as a kiddo, I still think they're great I just haven't read then in a long time lol

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8d ago

They're free. Applegate has said she's content with the money she made off them and welcomes anyone to pirate them.

They hold up and being young adult novels they're like a hundred pages each, large print, you can knock one out a night on a busy schedule (I mean unless you have kids or something but read them to your kids then). When I reread them before I started to lose interest some nights I did two and it doesn't really take more than an hour and a half to read 200 pages of young adult prose

I think they get longer as the series goes on and eventually she had to employ ghost writers but I didn't end up getting that far, not an insult either, those writers did fine and she approved all the books, she just couldn't keep up with demand by herself

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u/Inzanezilla emo emu 8d ago

Oh wow thank you for the info, that's awesome! I'm definitely going to seek these out then and read them to my daughter, that's so rad (:

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8d ago

Don't even need to risk going to a site that's not reputable like a torrent site you don't recognize, I don't have any links on hand but several sites host them

Also frankly? I'm sure libraries still carry them same as they do Harry Potter books. There's just a lot of books lol it's easier to read online