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Ok, welcome to our next Applegrant series....Everworld. 12 books in this one, and you know the drill, I"m going to try to post either a chapter or two a day, unless for whatever reason unless i'm too busy or not feeling well. Feel free to participate. We read two chapters a day of Animorphs, but we'll stick with one chapter for now until we all find out footing. Thanks to nine-world crow for his copies of the Everworld books. Book 1-The Search for Senna Chapter 1 quote:The fight started at the Taco Bell where a lot of seniors and some juniors went for lunch. I’m a junior. I fit in there as well as anywhere. Which is not very well. Ok, it' looks like we've been introduced to our protagonists. David-Who isn't particularly suave, sophisticated or popular. Christopher,-Who is. Jalil-Who isn't afraid to tell you when your poem sucks. Aptil: Senna's little sister, who's friendly, and whem she says hi, you think you've known her forever and Senna: Who we haven't met yet, but seems omnipresent. And, unlike our Animorph protagonists, these kids all are in high school, driving, getting really angsty anout relationship drama, anf thinking about their futures.
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 03:22 |
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Our protagonists (so far) David-Who isn't particularly suave, sophisticated or popular. Christopher,-Who is. Jalil-Who isn't afraid to tell you when your poem sucks. Aptil: Senna's little sister, who's friendly, and whem she says hi, you think you've known her forever and Senna: Who we haven't met yet, but seems omnipresent.
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 03:22 |
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Hell yes, ground floor for more patented Kathrine Applegate and Michael Grant Grade-A Child Trauma!
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 03:38 |
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I know literally nothing about this series, but I'm sure everything will go amazingly for these kids and nothing bad will happen
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 04:48 |
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quote:He came right up to me. I gave him credit for that. I have a rep as a fairly tough guy. Maybe I deserve it, I don’t know. David's such a jackass and I love him for it
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 10:13 |
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The Everworld that I read was like a compilation copy of the first three or so books but I don't think I ever got any farther than that. Looking forward to seeing where it goes. You can definitely tell they're trying to skew older than the Animorphs audience here, but I don't remember it being all that more violent than the cut-in-half-as-a-bear chapters from Animorphs.
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 15:50 |
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Yeah, the series definitely leans harder on dealing with things like sex, racism and mental illness than Animorphs did though the violence is overall toned down. And reading them as a kid I always felt like David, Christopher and April specifically were updated takes on versions of Jake, Marco and Cassie with different backgrounds who didn't go through the Yeerk stuff. And deliberately more alienated and flawed than their counterparts.
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 16:13 |
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Here for the ground floor, baby!
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 00:23 |
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Chapter 2quote:“You look terrible,” Senna said. So we've finally met Senna! And David's got it bad for her....really bad. Plus she's maybe psychic.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 02:57 |
here on the ground floor this time!
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 01:50 |
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Getting some pretty bad vibes from Senna, if we're doing Animorphs comparisons she seems like a David
Piell fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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Chapter 3quote:I dreamed about Senna that night. I almost always remember my dreams, although I always pretend not to. There are some things that pop up in my dreams I don’t want to remember. Stuff from a long-gone, faraway time, rising up to torture me. Yep, he's got her bad. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Apr 22, 2023 |
# ? Apr 22, 2023 04:22 |
This seems ominous. Also did you mislabel that chapter? We should be on 3 and it doesn't read like we skipped ahead
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 13:25 |
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Soonmot posted:This seems ominous. Also did you mislabel that chapter? We should be on 3 and it doesn't read like we skipped ahead You're correct. That should be 3. Corrected.
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 16:42 |
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Epicurius posted:Chapter 3 Hmm, is this where Applegrant started reading Herbert?
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 18:12 |
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Chapter 4quote:t happened the next day. The terrible thing. So something just happened. Our heroes just for some reason felt a weird compulsion to go to the same place, and then the universe ripped apart. Any idea what happened? Epicurius fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Apr 23, 2023 |
# ? Apr 23, 2023 04:21 |
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Epicurius posted:[b]Chapter 4[/b[ Yes, but it's because I read these books back then.
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# ? Apr 23, 2023 04:42 |
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Epicurius posted:[b]Chapter 4[/b[ ... ellimist did it?
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# ? Apr 23, 2023 05:05 |
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A sairo rip? It is possible but when we learned about this in school, see, I was distracted by...
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# ? Apr 23, 2023 12:03 |
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Chapter 5quote:It was like a fade. Like on a TV show when they fade from one picture to another. One minute you’re seeing one picture, then slowly another picture emerges beneath the first. Probably not a Sario Rip.
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 02:27 |
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I dunno, they definitely popped into Z-space for a moment there
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 02:52 |
There's that animorphs body horror I've been craving
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 12:52 |
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Kazzah posted:I dunno, they definitely popped into Z-space for a moment there Nah, they just developed that same x-ray vision you get when you cross the Dracon
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 16:21 |
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I tried reading this many years ago and stopped in the middle of the first book. I don't really remember why, let's hope it'll be better on a second look. So far: bewildering.
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 20:00 |
I read the hell out of Animorphs but never managed to take a look at this series. So far, so promising!
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 01:10 |
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Trying to clear something up about Book Barn etiquette. Will post the next chapter when i get the answer.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 03:04 |
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(Note: Slur related to sexual orientation in this chapter. Have spoilered it, but please take that into account when reading. Also, remember, statements in a book aren't necessarily the opinion of the writers of the book) Chapter 6 quote:I leaped and was frozen. So some not pleasant memories from David's past there. David sees himself as a coward, and these memories of him standing by and doing nothing supports that. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 25, 2023 |
# ? Apr 25, 2023 03:19 |
I uh dont remember sexual assault being a thing in Animorphs.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:02 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I uh dont remember sexual assault being a thing in Animorphs. i don't know what to say, but this isn't Animorphs.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:08 |
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Yeah, Everworld deals with a lot of explicit racism, homophobia, sexual assault and child abuse in a way Animorphs never really tries to. It definitely feels like they were writing for an older audience who 'graduated' from Animorphs.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:59 |
Yeah that's really the first indication that this isn't animorphs. Sure our kids were older, but they were still kids. Poor David, I'm really feeling for him.
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# ? Apr 26, 2023 02:26 |
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Chapter 7quote:I woke in agony. There's actually a good lesson there. it's how you act when you're scared that matters.
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Chapter 8quote:The fitful breeze was in our faces, and the longboat swiftly closed the distance to the castle. It was easy to see the rows of shields arrayed along the sides, each painted with the identical red emblem: a snake, mouth open, fangs out, dripping venom onto an agonized, upturned face. It was the same emblem on the big, rectangular sail. So, Loki. i defer to anyone who knows more about Asatru or the ancient Norse religion that i do, but, here's what I know about Loki. Loki could be destructive, but he wasn't the god of destruction as such (The Norse gods weren't gods of certain things the way that Greek or Roman gods were). He was born a Jotunn, which usually gets translated as giant, but the Jotunn weren't usually particularly tall. They were beings of chaos and the wild and barbarism, and generally enemies to mankind. Anyway, Loki met the god Odin, and they swore oaths to each other and became blood brothers. Loki's wife was named Sigyn, and he had two sons with her, named Narfi and Vali, and three children with his mistress, a Jotunn named Angrboda, the wolf Fenrir, the Midgard Serpent, and the goddess Hela, who ruled over the dishonored dead. Each of these three have stories about them, and they each play a role in the end of the world. Loki was also the mother of Odin's horse Slepnir. Loki stories usually go "Loki gets himself or the other Asir in trouble and then he has to find a clever way out of it." Loki is also responsible for the death of Balder, the most beloved of the gods, and is punished by being chained up and having a serpent drip poison on his face. But that's a story for another time. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Chapter 9quote:There was only one thing keeping all four of us from falling apart: I don’t think any of us thought it was real. How could we? It was completely impossible! Amon-Ra was the Egyptian gpd pf the sun and associated with the Pharaoh, who was seem as his incarnation on earth. So, we're nine chapters in. What do people think of the book so far?
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# ? Apr 28, 2023 03:51 |
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Despite having read these books I am completely blanking on this whole sequence, I forgot all about this meeting with Loki. Pacing is interesting in comparison to Animorphs, its slower and we're getting a lot more character info packed in early about David. But we really haven't gotten anyone else's full deal yet beyond very basic sketches. Zore fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Apr 28, 2023 |
# ? Apr 28, 2023 04:00 |
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As with Animorphs, different books are narrated by different people. We'll probably get more of their POVs as the series continues.
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# ? Apr 28, 2023 04:13 |
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It's frustrating, because so much of the introduction to this book is the characters being acted upon, not acting. But I remember that changes soon enough. And yeah, everyone starts very closed-off against the other characters.
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# ? Apr 28, 2023 05:16 |
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I have never read these, big fan of animorphs so excited to follow along. Not really much to make an opinion for me yet. I assume like animorphs end of book 1 will really set up status quo for every other, so kind of waiting for that.
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# ? Apr 28, 2023 21:24 |
Yeah I haven't got enough of a hang on the characters or the world to comment on them yet, but so far the writing style has got enough of that Animorphs feel that I already feel like I'm familiar and invested.
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Remalle posted:Yeah I haven't got enough of a hang on the characters or the world to comment on them yet, but so far the writing style has got enough of that Animorphs feel that I already feel like I'm familiar and invested. I feel like it's better, honestly. Not just because it's written at a higher grade level. I wonder how much of that feeling is just because the last half of Animorphs was nearly all ghostwriters, though.
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