#like honestly could i just bring my kindle i have all the torrented books on there

[theoriginalnikegirl]

If I only get to bring one Animorphs book with me to get stranded on a desert island, I'm bringing Visser. that's been my answer since I first read Visser last year because it's an awesome read (the scene where Eva gloats to Edriss about how Marco will dance on her bones. The scene where Edriss slowly realizes all the kids are kids. Everything Marco. Etc.) but I've also just gone verrrry deep down @exigencelost Animorphs tag and there are some thoughts and levels to Visser I'd really like to explore in the relative peace of a desert island where I've limited distractions and no capitalism to participate in

If I get to bring 2, than 22 is also coming. As a child, I was only able to get 20 once and it was through interlibrary loan so I didn't tango much with the David trilogy. But now that I've had reliable access to 20 for a year and am therefore familiar with how the David trilogy goes down, I'd be happy to read, over and over again, Rachel's crisis of identity as she can't stop thinking about how when it came to violence, Jake said "get Rachel". Rachel bursting into real tears as the Animorphs pretend to be defeated by David and David smears ketchup on her shirt. Jake admitting he doesn't know what lines are anymore and Rachel hugging him. All of it.

3, 30. Yeah I fucking know you can take whatever you were gonna say about Marco having an Oedipus complex and go somewhere else with it. Enough of 31 is burned into my brain that I could compare those two books all the day long and as much as I love 31, 30 is the superior book so

4, 54. It was between 54 and 19. It was close, I PROMISE YOU. I'm sad I can't bring 19, but what can you do. It was choice between 19 and the first four chapters of 54 and I know where my heart lies.

5, 23 (let's pretend I haven't read 23 upwards of fifty times over the course of my life). 23 is by far the book I've read the most times because: at school or work, I've seen a name of someone I'm unfamiliar with and tried pronouncing it a couple ways in my head. Then I've thought "DeGroot, rhymes with boat" then I've thought about 23. Then I've thought about Tobias sitting next to Visser 3 and struggling not to cry as he learns that dying alien prince who gave him and his friends the power to morph and conscripted them into this war that's now quite literally the whole of Tobias's life was actually his *father*, who didn't want to abandon him, who's unwilling to say he loves him since he doesn't know him but he wanted to, Tobias pretending that meant nothing to him and Visser 3 saying "Elfangor's son *should* be a worthy adversary. He's a waste of a Yeerk." and getting chills literally over my entire body while thinking about all this and subsequently having a difficult time conversing normally with classmates/coworkers/customers until I got home and read 23.

The above has happened more than once. More than twice, even. Three times. It's happened three times, each time exactly how like that, going from rhyming somebody's name with boat to something funny happening to my throat.

I want to know other Fandalites lists and they must be ranked. Or not I'm not the boss of you. But tell me anyway