Fans of the Animorphs

Sometimes wierd things happen to people. Ask Jake. He may tell you about the night he and his friends saw a strange light in the sky. He may even tell you about what happened when they realized the 'light' was only a plane-from another planet. Here's where Jake's story gets a little wierd. It's where they're told the human race is under attack-and given the chance to fight back.

Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie,Tobias and Marco have the power to morph itno any animal they choose. Aned they must use that power to outsmart an evil that is greater than anything the world has ever seen...

And so we start again.

I notice KAA's hints about Tobias here...him staying behind with Elfangor and getting the visions given to him.

I think Visser Three was definately scarier in this book than sometimes later on.

I felt bad for Tom but know why KAA wanted him to stay a controller.

Notice here Jake's tiger is Siberian but later it's a Bengal. KASU.  Or ghostwriter screw up, one of the two.

I also prefer the question of Tobias staying in morph accidentally or purposely remaining ambiguous.

What was your first impressing reading this first book, assuming it's the first one most of us read?

We went over this before, but I'll ask again for the newbies. Why didn't Elfangor morph to escape the Visser? Did the Ellimist not restore his morphing ability? That's a theory from RAF. Or was he just in too much of a hurry to get his story out to the kids.

Reading this after the last few books, what sorts of differences do you notice in the first one? Obviously lots more moral ambiguity in the later books.

How many people would have reacted to the spacecraft and its pilot the way the kids in the book did? I think a lot of people in general would have ran.

What difference in reactions would adults have had, had it not been kids at the site when Elfangor landed?

Was Tobias right later on that Elfangor would have given the cube to anyone he found at the site? Would've been a little risky though.

Do you have any thoughts after finding out later on that the kids being in the construction site wasn't totally accidental? That only two of them were there by chance? Would it have been better to leave the Ellimist's game out and just let the encounter remain a chance one?

I'm well aware of the whole picture-in-the-ship debate...discuss if you want, or pass over it since we already had along debate about it. Your choice.

Anyone know if all the first copies have the snippet of book 2 but the ad in back for book 3? Or do any have a book 2 ad instead?

Prompt...um....life changing experience?