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Anifans, lend me your recommendations!
After many years of (not so) subtle hints, I've finally gotten my boyfriend slightly interested in reading Animorphs. However, he definitely doesn't have time to read the entire series all the way through (and I don't blame him, I'm not sure I would even recommend the entire series to someone our age).
So, I want to recommend to him a handful of specific books that he'd especially like. However, I already have a pretty good sense of which ones are really important to the story overall (the Chronicles, the non-filler books, the books with really central character development and plot points) so I wanted to ask something a little different.
The thing he's most interested in about this series is how the Animorphs handle the animal brain while in morph, and the conflicts that arise from that. So far his favorite character is Tobias, because he appreciates the struggle that Tobias has in reconciling his predatory animal instincts with his human side. I've already recommended #3 and #13 to him, and he was very interested in the way that Tobias finally accepted his existence as a hawk. Do you guys have any other recommendations of specific books that do this kind of thing a lot, especially with predatory animals? It doesn't have to just involve Tobias, but any really interesting human brain-animal brain conflict is what I'm looking for here.
Bonus points, of course, for books that have a lot of this AND are good and important to the plot for unrelated reasons.
Thanks in advance!
After many years of (not so) subtle hints, I've finally gotten my boyfriend slightly interested in reading Animorphs. However, he definitely doesn't have time to read the entire series all the way through (and I don't blame him, I'm not sure I would even recommend the entire series to someone our age).
So, I want to recommend to him a handful of specific books that he'd especially like. However, I already have a pretty good sense of which ones are really important to the story overall (the Chronicles, the non-filler books, the books with really central character development and plot points) so I wanted to ask something a little different.
The thing he's most interested in about this series is how the Animorphs handle the animal brain while in morph, and the conflicts that arise from that. So far his favorite character is Tobias, because he appreciates the struggle that Tobias has in reconciling his predatory animal instincts with his human side. I've already recommended #3 and #13 to him, and he was very interested in the way that Tobias finally accepted his existence as a hawk. Do you guys have any other recommendations of specific books that do this kind of thing a lot, especially with predatory animals? It doesn't have to just involve Tobias, but any really interesting human brain-animal brain conflict is what I'm looking for here.
Bonus points, of course, for books that have a lot of this AND are good and important to the plot for unrelated reasons.
Thanks in advance!