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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: crystalclear on June 05, 2008, 09:27:07 AM
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Do you remember? The first book I read happened to be #1 ;) My friend borrowed it from the school library and it caught my eye ;D I took it home with me and got hooked on it ever since :D
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#1. I found it at a book sale in my middle school. After that I was hooked for life. :P
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Book #1. Well, I listened to the radio show first, but it was also the first book I read.
-- J.P.
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Mine was book one. My friend had gotten it from a library and I decided to read it.
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Mine was book two, I thought the first one looked weird and went and read the second one first.
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radio show? oh the radio drama? cool
good ol #1, got it from the scolastic book sale at school, gotta love those
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There was a radio drama? I'm intrigued now, is it available anywhere? Britain doesn't tend to import radio programs.
But back to the original question:
Number 1, I'm an old-school-day 1 fan, I started reading them in '97 (when they were first available in the UK). Every year my school had a book fair and my parents always pressured me into buying at least 1 book. The Invasion look interesting so I got it and was completely hooked. I read most of the book in one sitting, which was completely unheard of for me back then.
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#5, and boy was I confused when I read it.
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There was a radio drama? I'm intrigued now, is it available anywhere? Britain doesn't tend to import radio programs.
It isn't an official one.
http://animorphs-uncensored.com/
Also, what's up with you guys (this board) and them being rivals or something?
-- J.P.
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haha what? how are we rivals?
oh and if you'd like to listen to a different radio show it can be viewed here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkboCztWsl8) hehe
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haha what? how are we rivals?
oh and if you'd like to listen to a different and better radio show it can be viewed here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkboCztWsl8) hehe
fixed it for ya Duff.
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ah much better, yea def much more accurate
...so whats this about a rivalry? mwuhahaha
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Pfft. Rivalry. We are clearly better, theres no need for rivalry. ::)
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One thing that might help the audiobooks -- get everyone in the same room, or at least Skyped together or something. It would probably make it sound much more natural.
-- J.P.
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#17 The Underground - The one about the instant maple and ginger oatmeal. I was into it from the first page. :)
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#1, of course ;). My mom was a middle school teacher for thirty-five years and found the display I guess when she took her class to the book fair. She knew I liked animals and aliens, so she bought it for me as a gift. It took me a while to read it(I was six)but I was hooked by the time I was done. :happy30:
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#2
found it in a thirft store, saw a cat on it and forced my mom to buy it, along with #21, which my brother wanted.
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#21, then #23, bought at a bookfair when I was in first grade.
I already loved hawks, so the choice was obvious.
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the forgotten, forget the number, think it was 11, i remember being very confused when i read it (i was like 8) and i thought that tobias was a pilot not a bird
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Lucky 13
tre magnific!
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I first read the 3rd one, the Encounter, I didn't understand it much at first, but after I read books 1 and 2 soon after, I felt sorry for Tobias... :-\
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I read something in the 30's first. Even though it has a little introduction that sort of explains what's going on at the beginning of every book, I still didn't understand it. I ended up failing the test, too, and from then on, I decided I didn't like this series. Then, a year later, I had to pick a book for my weekly test, and #1 just happened to be sitting on top of one of the shelves. I checked it out. Fell in love with the series. And now I'm a huge fan. :p
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#3, and I was so confused I didn't even know my own name. I put it down and picked it back up about two years later. still confused, so another two years later (after i read #1), I read it again and finally understood it.
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The first animorphs book I owned or ever even saw was #3 The Encounter. My grandma bought it for me when it first came out. I didnt read the whole thing though I read like the first chapter got out of my seat and begged my mother to take me to a book store to get the first two. I dont know why, I just loved it from the first words. And I refused to keep going cause I didnt wanta spoil anything. From then on I was hooked.
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For whatever reason (whether availability or a girl turning into a cat being more appealing, I can't recall), I read the second book first, and since it begins in morph and with thought-speak I thought that in these books they simply used <>s instead of ""s for dialogue! I also was genuinely cliff-hung by the cliffhanger about Tobias not having been able to morph back in the first or second chapter, because I didn't know that he was a nothlit.....
I'm just glad it was early enough not to be too confused!
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The first Animorph book I ever read was 26, The Attack. The second one I read was 2, The Visitor. The third I ever read was the 54. Then the Andalite and Hork Bajir Chronicles. Then the third Megamorph. Then I found out my local library had the entire set there and I was able to figure out who half the characters really were, and just what was going on.
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The first Animorph book I ever read was 26, The Attack. The second one I read was 2, The Visitor. The third I ever read was the 54. Then the Andalite and Hork Bajir Chronicles. Then the third Megamorph. Then I found out my local library had the entire set there and I was able to figure out who half the characters really were, and just what was going on.
Wow, that must have been really confusing for you, lol! :o
It kind of reminds me of how the first of Buffy I saw was part of season 7 (I was very confused as to what was going and who everyone was as well!), though luckily I turned off the series finale before much had happened so I wasn't spoiled before I could go back and watch it all from the beginning. That's good you got the chance to do that--that's a good library you have! ;)
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Well, I missed about ten or more of the main series because they either didn't have them every time I went in, or just didn't have them. But now I have the collection from here.
As for Buffy, I waited three years after it had finished before I started buying the DVDs. Great show.
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I feel sorry for those who read books other than #1 first. I'm sure it's confusing. :P :D
Anyway, Reaper, what DVDs do you mean? The eps that you can download from here or a whole different thing?
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Oh, my bad. Buffy DVDs. As far as I know, Animorphs was put on 4 VHS's and nothing more. Whioch would explain why it's impossible to find perfect quality videos of the Animorphs TV series.
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Book #4.
I was certain that I was not going to be like every other kid in my school and get into Animorphs.
Then there was a girl turning into a dolphin on the cover. They just HAD to go and do something that cool didn't they? I totally became a huge fan. I even drew comics of Animorphs! (Their sillier escapades.)
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Book 1. I was given the first two books for christmas, I was 8, my sisters didnt like the books and gave them to me..
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#1. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
I needed a book to read for class, so I went over to the class bookshelf and saw a few books about people changing into animals. I thought it looked cool so I picked up #1 and began to read it.
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#1. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
most likely not if you started reading the series long after it finished, like me. my first book was #3. man was it confusing.
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The Invasion .... I saw in in the airport bookstore waaay back in 1997 or so and I read it on the plane. The story just sucked me in and I was hooked. On our vacation I ended up buying most of the books in order as we went along, and when we got back the most recent book would have been around #10. I was so proud of myself for getting it :D
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my first book was the pretender, i never knew what a hork bajir was for awhile lol i guess i should have started at the first book
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#1. It was my 2nd yr in the 5th grade (i got held back for different reasons I dont wanna get into)...they had this thing where every month of the school yr you had to pick 1 book a wk to read n do book reports on n every month it was a different genre so basically, it was 4 books of sci-fi, fantasy, biography, history, etc.
So anyways, it's the sci-fi month, Animorphs catches my eye, n ever since than I've been a complete bookworm n don't even own a TV let alone watch any. With the exception of when I'm at my parents...thats the only time I watch anything. (If there's a TV show I like enough to watch, I tend to watch it online or borrow the DVDs from librarys...)
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i actually read #11 (the forgotten) first. my brother had been obsessed with them for like a week and they were all over the house, so I just picked it up and became addicted.
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Mine was Book 20, The Discovery (The second book in the "David" trilogy.) =D I didn't quite get hooked but I read the other books anyway and THEN got hooked ^^
Yeah starting at book 20 was confusing o.o I remembered picturing Elfangor as an old man, and I thought that he died later in the storyline, instead right after giving them the powers o.o. Also I kept picturing that they had to go into some weird machine in order to demorph. xD
and....I kept picturing Ax as a horse with a head...shaped like an axe. ::)
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Me, I started out with #1 . . . until I lost the book before I was half way done with it. Well, what can you do?
I eventually got #6, and whatever numbers "The Familiar" and "The Sickness" are. Ever since then, I've been slowly collecting them (while collecting Potter and Goosebumps books).
I've just realized all those series have an author whose known by their first to initials and surname (K. A. Applegate, J. K. Rowling, and R. L. Stein).
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I read most of the books in order but not all. I read The Invasion, The Encounter, The Capture and The Stranger and The Andalite's Gift first and caught up with the missing books in between afterwards.
I read the rest of the series in order since then. (Actually, I missed The Discovery so I read The Threat and The Solution first but I read The Discovery shortly after.)
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I started with #1 when the series was first released and then read every book in order from there. The only time I skipped ahead was when #22 was sold out in my town, so I picked up #23. Unfortunately, I read through the first chapter and onto the second where it spoiled the ending for the David Trilogy. I learned my lesson after that point and read every book in order after that :P
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Number one! I forgot where I found it back in 96 but I was hooked for life :)
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I have absolutely no idea which book I read first. But I did read them in order for the most part, so I probably started with #1. Either that or #3.
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i think it was #2, might have been #19 thought, i don't remember that well
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the first one, The Invasion. The library only had a few of the early books, and I like to start at the beginning or I don't understand a lot of stuff.
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Book number one.
I believe my mother saw the books and knew I would love them due to my interest in both animals and aliens at the time, so she just went ahead and bought me the first 5 books. I read them within a few days.
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first one for me was #1 as well.
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#3. And then to confuse myself completely and utterly, #23. #1 was actually the fourth book I read.
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My first book was #6, and that one got me hooked immediately. I didn't read #1 until after reading five or six other books, all from around the beginning of the series, and I think a lot of people whose first Animorphs book was #1 don't realize that Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias never go into detail about how Elfangor was killed. They'll start to reach that point in their "story thus far" debrief, but then immediately decide they don't want to think about it.
I'm thinking of making an online graphic novel version of #6...
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I didn't even think about that till the other day. I realized I hadn't even "met" Elfangor when I read #23.
Except in the worst way possible-the show. :P At least I knew generally what had happened.
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The Android was my first book. But I got a few of them at the exact same time thanks to my grandmother. I immediately fell in love with them, of course. I actually didn't read #1 until very very late in my Animorphs Journey.
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i forgot the number of my first book but i remeber the cover was marco turning into a poodle or something
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My first one was The Invasion. I got it from the school library. My favourite character is Tobias. Oh, and I'm new here.
Terri
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Mine was #4 The Message and kept reading for the animals till about #19 The Departure. I was too busy being confused to notice the magic talking whale.
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#1, read it at the library when I was 6 or so.
... I was pretty good at reading pretty early, apparently I hit "college level", whatever that means, in third grade.
I STOPPED reading at #20, for a looooong time. I read a few ones forward of the David arc (at least the one with the cows) and since my library didn't have the full collection, sometimes the order I read them in had more to do with which covers I liked than anything.
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The first one was "The Andalite Chronicles." Ironically I never even knew it was connected to the Animorphs, I saw the animorphs book covers and thought they looked stupid. But I saw the cover and I was like "purple centaur? COOL!" and I LOVED it.
Then a friend told me it was the prequel to Animorphs and I was like "OMG yay someone saved Elfangor and then Loren and him can get back together and have more babies!"
Nope. :(
I was sad after reading book one. :'(
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I think the very first Animorphs book I might have was #15. The Escape, but I didn't really understand it because I was so young. The time I started getting into Animorphs, the first book I read was #8. The Alien, back in 2001, around the September, 11 attacks.
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I felt like I had to read through the series in order, so I started with book 1. The first one I bought was book 2, though.
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Officially, Visser, in the main series, the rabbit one. Because I like rabbits
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Having been a year old when the series was first released, I wasn't going to be able to read it, much less appreciate it, until after it was already over. So I wasn't easily going to start at the beginning.
My non-English-speaking grandfather bought #19 The Departure for me as a present when I was about six. I'd never seen the series before. I assumed it would be about a fairy or something...?
Anyway, I tried reading it and had no clue why a bunch of people were fighting and why one was melting out of an elephant, let alone the alien invasion stuff since that particular book doesn't have the typical "the Yeerks are here" opening. I gave up after about a chapter.
A few years later, I was bored and decided I wanted to read something and picked it up.
eight year old mind=blown
...and I was never the same. :-]
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The first i read was book #1. My sister borrowed both book #1 and #17 from a friend of hers and i didn't want her to return them but she managed to return book #1.
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Book 11. I saw it at the store and picked it up. I didn't understand it at all and it's one of my least favorite books lol.
But then I started reading the series in proper order and loved it.
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The Norwegian version of book 1.
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Officially, Visser, in the main series, the rabbit one. Because I like rabbits
I seriously had a weird thing for rabbits. I thought one would make a good pet.
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Book 1, right after Rats of NIMH, at eight years old. It's weird, but I think I'm in the minority who dislikes that movie. Don Bluth's other films were far its superior. I saw the book t by coincidence---I didn't expect to be obsessed. :3
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I read book 1 first. It was the first book I even saw. After reading that one, I was stoked to find out there were more.
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#1 The Invasion (in Italian, of course). I was 11 years old, and I was a Goosebumps fan. These new books were widely publicized in association with Goosebumps, especially in my favourite bookshop.
My older cousin convinced me to read them (I was skeptical at the beginning), but then he left with #6. I bought the first 5 books, but soon after I gave up, too (maybe I read the first four, but I was not particularly impressed).
Some months later, I found these strange books on my bookshelf, and I re-started to read them in order....and from that moment I fell in love...and I was the only Italian reader I've ever known ::)
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The Invasion.
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The Andalite Chronicles.
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#6.
I first heard about the series from my hairdresser (don't ask), and my mom offered to buy me one from the rack in a supermarket shortly thereafter. I take a look at the covers, see #6 saying "nowhe's one of them and immediately thought "Cool! They get a new teammate in this one!" (somehow completely missing the intended tone of the italics). Wound up loving it (helped that it was a good one, I'd probably have just given up on it if I started at #37 or something), and eventually filled everything else in afterward.
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Number 6 when i read it i thought Tobias was an Andalite because he used thought-speak and he had a strange name
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I started with the first book and was hooked. I remember finishing it and thinking that I've got no choice, I've got to read all of these books, no matter how many they make, I've just gottta read them all. So from then till the series end, I was at the bookstore every month looking for the new release.
Sadly I don't remember exactly how I got my copy of #1 The Invasion, there are two possibilities but they are sorta the same. I was in 6th grade at the time and piratically every month my school would give us little four page book order forms and #1 The Invasion might have caught my eye or I might have gotten in as part of one their bargain book bundles.
I'm happy to hear that some people actually did pick up the series in the middle. I mean I knew there had to be people who did but I never really heard form them before. It's nice to see that the opening chapter info-dumps weren't completely redundant even if they weren't as helpful as they might have been.
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Hi, the first Animorphs book I read I CANT REMEMBER:
1. Jake sees an old lady get a Yeerk in her head
2. I think it is some sort of alternate reality, maybe the Back to Before book, but I havent been able to find and confirm
3. Tobias, Jake or someone morphs into a giraffe OR/AND a German Shephard
HELP PLEASE
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I think that's alternamorphs #1
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The last two point to Alternamorphs number one, the first one I have no clue about.
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The first one sounds like any book where they go to the yeerk pool. I forgot if they do that in Alternamorphs #1
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It's been years since I read either of the Alternamorphs but I know the first one is largely a retelling of #1 The Invasion so there's probably a trip to the yeerk pool in there.
But starting with an Alternamorph book? That's gotta be a strange place to start. At least it was the first one and not the second because that one is parts #26 The Attack and #20 The Discovery and some Megamorphs #2 thrown in for good measure.
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Having been a year old when the series was first released, I wasn't going to be able to read it, much less appreciate it, until after it was already over.
A bit late to the thread, but omg this makes me feel old.....
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Oh no! Now I feel old too. :(
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#17 The Underground - The one about the instant maple and ginger oatmeal. I was into it from the first page. :)
That was my first book too :)
I read a part of the Invasion at the local library when I was younger, and when I went to some mall, some store had the box sets for books 17-20 and 21-24. They looked cool, and I got hooked from reading them ever since.
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Mine was book 1 :D
I got it from the school library, and was- shoot me- influenced by my friends to actually NOT read it *hides from flaming xD*
Then I found it again in the craziness aka my house and had forgetten about it. I read it and loved it instantly 8D
After that I read half the series, but the library had few books on Animorphs, and jumps in between (for example, they had book 24 then a jump to book 35 or something).
After that I just read the books and ignored my friends protests xDDD
Lol, but I'm re-reading the series now and collecting, in a sense, the books off eBay :) One by one, this time instead of one by thirty five!
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I think mine was #19. Strange, I know...
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OMG, this thread just brings back so many memories! I was in 7th grade when my cousin introduced me to the series,my firstbook was probably The Visitor. At that time I was going through middle school hell, you know when youdon't fit in coz you're different and all that. So I'd lose myself in the school library, and then I found out they had Animorphs - YAY!! I wasn't alone any more :)
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my first book was #5. I remember the gorilla morph so well.
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My first was #33, easily in the top 3 for most traumatizing in the series. Read it in middle school, and was honestly kinda shocked by it.
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I believe that mine was #4: The Message, but I honestly don't remember; it's been at least 11 years for me. :P