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Summary: What were you thinking Applegate??
Review: Brief Synapsis: For the full story on the vocabulary used as well as the main characters see Animorphs 1: The Invasion. Using the idea introduced in Animorphs 11: The Forgotten, the Animorphs swim out in Dolphin morph to attempt to help some divers recover a nuclear device. With an explosion, it opens a Sario-Rip which plunges the group into the far distant past of the dinosaurs. They arrive in the age of the giants, with numerous small problems, such as their wounds not repairing themselves from one morph to the next, getting split up, almost digested, taking a large spill from the top of the food chain to the bottom, and trying to survive long enough to get home. In their struggles to remain alive, they encounter two types of aliens who are currently inhabiting earth, yet are not on the fossil records. The peaceful, strange, almost crustacean Mecorans invite them into their city which is protected by a force field. Yet, even then, Tobias sees the long range impacts that meddling with time can have. In eating a stringy rat creature, he observes it might have been that very rodent which supplied the genetics to breed a better, stronger creature, which someday evolved into a human. One small alteration could change the course of all life as they knew it, destroying everything. The other species, the Nesk, are a strange and aggressive group which are essentially ants which come together to form bodies or limbs to use tools. The Mecorans are at a stand off with the Nesk, and as the Nesk try to protect some species and consider themselves owners of earth, the Mecorans remain behind force fields which are maxed to their limits, allowing no more expansion, yet safety. Unfortunately, a very tough decision has to be made, although its really no decision at all. Do the Animorphs preserve time and reality as they know it, or do they go home, destroying dinosaurs as well as the alien species inhabiting earth already?For my personal opinion of the book, I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because this is one of those plots which has been done to death over movies, books, etc. However, before the fans of K.A. Applegate grab the torches and pitchforks, I must also say that it has some refreshing twists and turns which are new. It's also very well written, interesting, can be thought provoking, and overall fast paced. One reviewer was upset that it seemed to support genocide, and perhaps so. Had the author never introduced the two alien species, there would have been no conflicts moral or mental to the story. Everyone knows dinosaurs went extinct who will pick up the book, and may be aware of the several big hypothesis on how it happened. Had the aliens not been there, it would not have seemingly supported genocide, merely wiped out the dinosaurs who were already gone to our present minds. However, remove that element, and you remove key parts to what makes these stories enjoyable. These kids in the Animorphs stories become heros by their actions and deeds. Sometime they make bad judgement calls, occasionally things backfire, but they become "real" to us because they aren't perfect in everything they do. Sometime just being able to survive is the only reward they get, other times, they're able to score major victories against their enemy. All reviewers are fully entitled to their opinions, but I disagree with the genocide comment. Had the book not ended as it had, homo sapiens most likely would not have ever existed at all, and it was actually already a matter of history having played itself out. To keep any realism at all, the author couldn't have the entire world with billions of forms of life suddenly altered by the survival of the dinosaurs and original alien races. I would say, however, that the prospect would have made a very interesting "Elseworld" story like some of the other stories she delved into later with the Megamorphs. Unfortunately, we'll never see it, but it would have been a fun thought. Other points from a reader well over the target audience have to lay predominately with Cassie. Although she doesn't seem to be the favorite with the reviewers, what happens to her in this book directly leads into Animorphs: The Decision. She loses control of her morph, but this time it???s the King of the Tyrant Lizards -- the T-rex. She and a Triceratops launch into an epic battle that almost everyone has done with their toy dinosaurs, except it was all real. Becoming so engrossed and lost in the morph leaves a tremendous scar on Cassie, which will be shown in the next book of the main part of the series. This novel has a lot of tension, without becoming too much in terms of violence or "keep you awake at night" moments. Its fast paced enough for even reluctant readers, and as most people have loved dinosaurs sometime in their lives, its an all together good one to read.
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Summary: One of my favourites, too...
Review: Despite its reliance upon the Sario Rip plotline, pioneered in #11 The Forgotten, I really like this one. Dinos, danger, distress, broccoli...who could ask for more? And of course, once again it's Tobias who sees the big picture...I won't say more, lest I spoil the ending! Just read it. It's the best of the Megamorphs (which isn't saying much at the moment). BTW, I just finished reading Back to Before. What was the point, apart from showing us that the Animorphs need to continue fighting? I mean, Rachel with Marco? One of my friends has been predicting it from the very beginning, but... Plus, is the distinction between those time changes that In The Time of Dinosaurs takes place in the same time line, while #4 is a different one? It worries me that this 'anomaly' that is Cassie wouldn't have had some effect before.
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Summary: Dino-Cool
Review: I think this book is just amazing. I mean, come on, how can anybody not like aliens which actually highly intelligent ants! In the time of the dinosuars. You've got to be a fool not to read this book. My favourite part of it is when Tobias works out that they can't blast away the meteor and alter the future, that could make a big mess - dino's charging around - elephant versus triceratops - no challenge. You've got to have big brains to use explosions to travel through time. The animorphs books are all amazing and I think K.A. Applegate is one heck of a writer.
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Summary: megamorphs
Review: megamorphs
the book i read was the animorphs: megamoarphs in the time of the
dinosaurs. the book starts out with Marco on of the five animorphs
talking about a nuclear sub that sank in the ocean. so he talks to his
friends and they go to the sunken sub and boom it happens if you
want to find out what happened read the book . but they wake up
and there in the time of the dinosaurs and all of their morphs are to
weak for them to use in that world so they have to get new morphs
but how. when they wake up tobias and Rachel were eaten by a
dinosaur and the rest of them are being chased by another dino.
they reach land and demorph and they relies that this is real and
that they might not go home. But they knew that tobias and weren't
going no matter what because they were eaten as you now know.
Now the remaining animorphs decide that they need to get a fire
going to survive and keep other animals away. but what they dont
know is that tobias and rachel are still alive and are trying to get out
of the dinosaurs stomach. And back at camp a t-rex shows up and
they run they thought that the fire would keep the dinosaurs away .
to find out what happens in the rest of the book you'll have to read
the book but on my opinion the book was one of the best i've ever
read on a scale of one to ten it was definetly a nine.
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Summary: This book rules
Review: OK, this is one of my favorite Animorphs. I never can deside what my very best is, but this one is seriously cool! The Animorphs are sent back to the time of dinosaurs when a nuke. sub explodes and causes a Sario rip. K.A. has obviously done a lot of reserch for this book, it has a nice range of dinos from the cretaceous period. Tobias and Rachel are separated when a Kronosaurus tries to eat them (thats a type of swimming dinosaur) but they meet up later on an alien force-feild. Yes, it turns out that in the time of dinosaurs, two groups of aliens, the bad guys, the ant-Nesk and the nicer Mercoras, are fighting for the posession of earth. But the Animorphs arn't here to fight, they need a nuke to reverse the Sario Rip and they need to steal it from the Nesk. It ends up the Animorphs join the Mercora and morph dinos to get into the Nesk camp. They get the nuke and destroy the camp on the way out, at the expense of a ship full of Mercora. It is very sad at the end, when the Animorphs (or mre correctly, Tobias) must deside, let the Mercora die or change the future. They get home in the end. Anyway, gotta go more reveiws soon. Bye
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Summary: Another great addition to Animorphs
Review: Okay, everyone gets a T-rex EXCEPT Rachel and Tobias. They get Deinonychuses (repeat: die-NON-ick-us.) It's like a Velociraptor, except real Velociraptors were only 3 feet tall and Deinonychuses were the 5- and 6-footers. No Ellimst and no Time Matrix; it's a Sario Rip. The only morph that anyone keeps is Ax's new dolphin. I don't want to give too much away, but they run into lopsided crab aliens and aliens that I assume are the predecessors of modern-day ants. No Pemalites or Yeerks. And it comes in six colors with a different character on each inside jacket. I have Tobias in purple (it's out in May, folks!) and loved it, just like all the other Animorph books, and can't wait until #19.
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Summary: This book is SO COOL!!!!!
Review: Thanks to a nuclear accident, the Animorphs go back to the time of the dinosaurs. (The nuke accident caused a Sario Rip, in case you're wondering.) They get awesome dino morphs, but loose them. (Remember the last time there was a Sario Rip? HINT: Think book 16.) I will tell you ants, broccoli, and these crab-thingies are involved. Read the books. Together we fight.
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Summary: It's a great book, I enjoyed it. One of Applegate's finest!
Review: That sounded like a headline title, didn't it? I'll start off by saying that it was one of the best ANIMORPHS books ever!! I'll try to summarize without giving too much away (for example, the entire plot). Well, they go on a mission to save these sub divers, and these nukes on the sub blow up. One of those amazingly annoying Sario-Rip thingamabobbies happen, and they go back to Mr. Rex's era. That's the setting, and I'll say just a few more things. 1) Rachel and Tobias spend some real quality time together (heh heh heh). 2) They meet the race that invented broccoli. 3) There are ants involved (doesn't that just stink)! Great book, and I suggest that you get it.
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Summary: Cool!
Review: This book is probably one of the BEST Animorphs book ever!I think it's pretty decent of them to try saving the people in the submarine (especially Marco!).I think Tobias's note at the back was cool.I have some advice for you: if you and your friends EVER get blown back 65 million years ago to the time of the dinosaurs, 1)call me and my friends here over,too 2)call Tobias for dinosaurs identification 3)holler, yell, scream, shout, shreik, throw up, cry or do anything that makes noise.This book's great, and I recommend it to everyone, human or not!
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Summary: Jordan at Richview Middle school
Review: This book starts out with a kid seeing a submarine crashing at the bottom of the ocean. His name is Marco and he is the prankster of this group of special humans. They are Andalites,which have the power
to gather animal d.n.a. and they change into animals.Jake is the leader
then there is Cassie,Ax,and Rachel. Well they go to save the people in
the sub,While they are saving the day nuclear sub blows up and they get blown back to in time with the dinosaurs.While they are there they encounter two alien species one friendly one not so friendly. So they create another explosion and they go home
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