If you get past the first few books and stick with it, there's actually a pretty good story to be found. I think what most people loved more though watching the characters grow up, develop, and mature (or regress) over time.
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Anonymous2007-03-04 19:50 ID:hUKxtwoe
I loved Animorphs when I was a kid... I could pop one of those things out in thirty minutes or less or your money back. Hell, I still have about four of them because the library doesn't seem to track juvenile's paperbacks, suckers. I even read the Elemmist Chronicles and the Andilite Chronicles. Liked the Elemmist Chronicles, but what the hell where they supposed to look like? It was never describe, as if you already knew. It refered to them having both pods AND talons? That part where he was trapped by that planet that wanted to basically play chess for the rest of eternity. And then he absorbed the planet.
I wish I could touch people and make them docile, it was cool how they used that on things. Also, if they can fuse people to make Axe's human form, and in one Tobias only demorphed halfway back to hawk before morphing again (I think), then why did they never (to my knowledge) turn into things like Chimera and Manticores?
Man, I remember it all so well and yet I don't think I've read them since the Matrix came out.