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[micaturtle]

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[jem0000000]

4. She did have ghostwriters. Actually, some of the books contradict facts from previous books. :(

I believe she wrote the final sequence herself, tho - or at any rate, I had read the entire series, and the final sequence sounded more like her "voice" than many of the middle ones and didn't contradict any of the early books. (I've never known for sure which books were ghostwritten and which weren't, tho.)

[jem0000000]

Lemme see... the most blatant one was how Tobias became a morphing hawk. They devoted a whole book to that, and one of the books gave a slightly different version.... Most of the rest was little stuff, little inconsistencies. I think one of them had to do with David, but I don't remember for sure. Um... I know Ax let the Andalites believe he was the one who gave the Animorphs the morphing technology at one point, and then it's presented as the true story once, but I don't know if that was from someone who knew better's point of view or not (I don't even remember if it was part of the main series or one of the supplemental books that it happened in). Um... I don't really remember the other things.... I know a lot of the morphs didn't get repeated, but by the time the book series ended I don't think anyone knew how many who had anyway.

[jem0000000]

54 sounds about right. (If I wasn't so lazy, I'd run upstairs and check; I still have mine, somewhere.) Mmm, she said she'd end the series when people got bored with them, somewhere in the late twenties - I think at that point she herself was probably already bored (just a guess, due to the ghostwriters and the fact that she started another series somewhere around there (Everworld; shorter and more consistent; it's language-y and some of the jokes are a bit immature/vulgar (actually, I'm surprised Scholastic was willing to publish it), but the plot is better, IMO)), but they were selling well. I think that's what happened to it: the overall plot was not book-specific, so when it was selling and she and her publisher were making money off it, she let it be her "cash cow" while she focused her energies elsewhere, and thus we got books that did nothing for the overall plot. (Everworld uses a very similar cast with the same alternate-narration thing, but because the overall plot moves in a specific direction in each book, it feels

[micaturtle]

3. Oooh, yes, I agree. All of those sound great!

But am I allowed to sex mikey up? *G*