100 books meme

[queenlua]

here's a list of 100 books that were formative to me in some way, changed me in some way, etc etc

some books have aged better than others but are still there out of, y'know, honesty

i am probably forgetting so much shit from my childhood lol. alas i am not in front of my childhood bedroom bookshelf so i cannot stare at it to try and remember!

ANYWAY. how many books overlap OR (because this is more interesting than a number): any overlaps we share that are particularly exciting? any books you want to hear me ramble about?

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[neotula]

some super good stuff there!

i loved deltora quest too! formative weird fantasy for me as a kid!

also, visser specifically from animorphs! interesting/cool choice, i'd love to hear why that one stood out. (if i had to pick an animorphs book, i'd pick one of the trio about David: those hit me hard as a kid when i read 'em.)

i also loved dealing with dragons! that was such a fun series and one that inspired so much of my writing as a teen. always glad to see wild magic/tamora pierce, such good books.

[queenlua]

do you remember that scene in deltora quest where they enter the forest where the insect-creatures make The Most Horrible Noise In The World and that alone does them in. that series did those Big Cool Fantasy Setpiece scenes so WELL i had so much fun with em

(also: just occurred to me Unicorns of Balinor & the Goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books probably also should've been contenders lmao)

Visser: oh gosh there's so much juicy stuff in that one. one, i'm just weak for a tragic backstory; Visser One's deal has been so mysterious for so long at that point so it was fascinating to learn about that. also the dynamics of Visser-One-being-lowkey-in-love-with-Eva were kind of wild? like i remember vividly how Visser One did this game where she would let Eva have just a little bit of control, just to see what she'd do with it... at one point making it where Eva could independently blink one eye... and Eva waits and waits for weeks and weeks and closes her eye during a crucial moment when Visser One's driving a car and gets them in a huge accident that almost kills them and Visser One is like "damn Eva is so smart and determined, hot" and they just have some kind of Vibe going on it's so good. and Visser One CALLING THE ANIMORPHS TO HAVE THEM STAGE AN ATTACK TO DISCREDIT VISSER THREE???? juicy politics at its BEST it's so GOOD

i picked it on impulse but honestly i could've chosen a lot as the stand-in for Representative Animorphs Book. i really loved The Hork-Bajir Chronciles (the deal with how "seers" related to the rest of their species was kind of interesting to me), Back to Before (BAD END AU GOD IT'S SO GOOD), The Pretender (the whole scene where Toias has to LET NO EMOTION SHOW when he finds out elfangor's his dad??? SO good), The Capture (Jake getting infected by a yeerk, early but banger), The Reunion (where Marco gets his famous "ruthless" bastard monologue), The Conspiracy (mostly mid but do you remember when Jake deadass asks Ax to torture Chapman? and Ax agrees because he's got that "prince" complex around Jake but he's so PISSED about it (“<No, Prince Jake, nothing about this is good,> Ax snapped. <This is not behavior suitable to a warrior. I will not do this again.>”), The Illusion (look it's tobias!whump. i am not immune to tobias!whump)... god this whole series has so many bangers. (the David trilogy is ALSO good and in particular i love how it brings out Rachel's killer edge and Marco's suspicious intensity but. too many to pick from!)