Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: leeranspy on March 20, 2009, 12:50:47 AM
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Hi
When did you read your first Animorphs book?
1996 for me when "The Visitor" was released. I was more into Goosebumps and other stuff like that but I was ordering through one of those Scholastic book club dealies and I needed one extra book to get a discount on the order. My mom told me to pick "The Visitor" because Rachel looked pretty on it (this was all back when I was finishing 3rd grade).
I did not finish the series (I had read most of the books up to 20 and then 23, 27, and 28) and only got back into it last week...I've been madly reading the ebooks and have read 20 books so far (filled in the books I hadn't read and am now at 43).
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in my school. they had all the books. oce i had read the first one, Invasion i errr liberated it from my school libeary. its been on my bookself ever since
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First book I read was #1: The Invasion. I got it in the new school term in 1996 when a Scholastic rep came down and showed us all the new books that were out. Animorphs was one of the books that was part of her presentation. After reading #1, I was hooked. :D
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1998...I was 10 :) my brother and I joined the animorphs club thing in bookclub..it was cool :)
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Ugh... anyone else notice how they made Rachel's character very unlikeable after the mid-20s and they went about it in a very obvious manner? It's like they ruined her character and she completely transformed - she became very spiteful, angry, and...b-tchy...
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hey screwed with all the characters to a certain extent once the ghostwriters took over.
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hey screwed with all the characters to a certain extent once the ghostwriters took over.
I'm so tired of everyone blaming the ghostwriters for how the characters turned out. You can hate their writing style, fine, but the ghostwriters never 'took over' Animorphs. They only helped K.A out so that she could have time to raise her kids and keep up with Everworld at the same time. All of the ghostwriters were also directly hired through her (Scholastic never pushed for it), so K.A still wrote all of the storylines and read and checked through the writings of all of the books. She often rewrote whatever she didn't like. In the end, if it was printed, then K.A. approved of it.
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It was grade...2. So 1998. I bought a two pack of The Attack and The Exposed, and didn't understand either of them. But the pictures on the front were so pretty that I wanted to understand what was going on with them, and started buying them all and raiding my school's library.
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1996, in my 5th grade classroom. Our teacher had #1 on the bookshelf. I fought with another kid named Nick over reading the "cool lizard book". He won, so I had to wait an extra month because Nick was a freaking slow reader. >.<
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Grade 7, so 1997 or 1998. It was book 2, which was sitting in the school library.
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am i the only one that started on book 1... :P
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i was 7 or 8.
i remember getting book 1 and loving it so much i actually read it through church.
my mom wouldn't let me take the books there ever again. ;D
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lol i also remember reading one in church.... but not during the service
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I don't remember my first book. I just remember back in elementary school, a kid was reading one, and I asked what it was about. He told me and said they were good. About a year passed, and I saw some laying on a bookshelf in my local library, figured id read it, and grabbed one. It wasn't the first one, but I can't recall which. After that I was hooked, and read every animorph book the library had, which unfortunately wasn't all of them. I did, however, read through the whole series via ebooks right before I joined RAF
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the laws of reality make it so that no libeary has all of the animorph books.
its physicaly impossiable
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They weren't even those nice hardcover scans most libraries have. Worn and torn pages, although some were okay. I didn't care though, I'd have read them if they were printed on napkins.
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lol napkins are silly
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You know what I meant Brad.
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;D
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There was this library that I go to that used to be only missing 2. Which was how I managed to read every single book, because the other two that they were missing were avalible at another library.
I first read them...maybe two years ago, I'm guessing. Don't know the exact month. My brother let me read the book he took out of his school library. (The Alien. Which I now own.)
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you stole it?!!
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No. My mom bought it.
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He's just asking because he stole his book from a library, right Brad?
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i was young and without pennys to bye by my books in ye olde booke shop
but now i see the error of my ways...
actual Think how did you know that? mental powers?
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My little green bottle of sanity told me so.
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Argh... I just finished the series and it ended on a cliffhanger!!!!!!! >:(
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that annoyed me too... and i dident like that no-one got a happy ending.
and think: Sanity bottles can only do that because i blessed it with my british beam ~~~~~>
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that annoyed me too... and i dident like that no-one got a happy ending.
and think: Sanity bottles can only do that because i blessed it with my british beam ~~~~~>
Except Marco, yeah...until the whole search for Ax began...
Also, it seems extremely abrupt. The Animorphs didn't experience anything close to being as depressing as most of the ends they met. It would have been better to spread out these crappy endings over a few books but it all happened so fast and unexpectedly.
Almost makes me wish to forget about this book and make do with some fanfic rewrite.
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maby she was opening it up for a second series....
but that has a 99% unlikelyhood :-\
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I was 8.. didn't understand much then. Then I got my hands on another in my school library when I was 10.. Haven't looked back since.
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I say the ending makes sense, it should be depressing and unhappy.
It just needed to be longer and more detailed, and while the ending should, like it did, lead to another fight based on the characters, I didn't like the fact it was such a sheer faced cliff. Yeah, a well made cliffhanger is an okay ending, but such a sharp direct one is annoying.
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It was in 1998.
My father bought me the first five volumes of the book because he thought it was an animal encyclopedia. He didn't read the back cover.
Well...
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Parents are liable to do that ;D
I read my first book last year actually my older sibling had bought some when she was younger. I read the ones we had and then I filled in the gaps by buying some from a used bookstore.
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I actually don't know when I started reading Animorphs but I was already on the David Trilogy in 6th grade and I read the books in order so I'm guessing around then :P That was almost 9 years ago.
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2000 I think.
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2000 I think.
same..i was only 10
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I was in fifth grade, they were selling them during a book fair. The date I bought and read them are stamped in my first Animorphs book Megamorph #1: The Andalite Gift (The only book, plus the last 6 books that I didn't lose. Bought them all back except for #42 The Journey, which I can't find). Anyways the date is May 12th 1997. Wow that will be twelve years in 2 months :o
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ohh bookfairs! I loved bookfairs. And the monthly catalogues! My boyfriend's little brother gets them and I look through them eagerly, lol. That's where I joined the animorphs club :)
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It was also when the first book was released. I had just moved to Ohio from California then and it was a bit of a culture shock- and so whenever I needed a break, I'd borrow a book from the library and check into the world of the Animorphs :)
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I don't remember the year but it was when I was given 4 books, 10, 12, 13 and 16
I read # 10 and was very annoyed whit Marco's arrogance and decided that I didn't like the book. Many years later I decided that as I had the books I had to read them. I read one of the others... and then I couldn't stop. As they had stopped publish Animorphs after book 16 and megamorphs 1 and 4, I went to the red cross to find a new one. They had # 5 at that time.
By the way, I like Marco today, he has even been my favourite sometimes.
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Fifth grade. I found some of them on the teacher's bookshelf, decided the series was nice, and checked out a few more from the library.
This was in 2001/2002, so I was kinda late to it.
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I began Animorphs in 1998, or maybe end of 1997, with the volume #1. I was more into Anne Rice's novels, and a little in Shadow Zone and Spooksville. But as I forget my past, I can't remember why nor when I bought my first Animorphs...
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the laws of reality make it so that no libeary has all of the animorph books.
its physicaly impossiable
All 54 or all 64? Because we have all but Ellimist chronicles.
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I was one of those kids that would check out 30 books from the library and read them in 3 weeks and take them back.
and I happened to see book 4 and 3 and checked them out. it was like 1996 or something
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Spooksville was awesome!!!!! ;D
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Spooksville was awesome!!!!! ;D
yeah! ^^ but not very famous... and Shadow Zone seems to be even less famous... How Goosebumps could be so famous and let the funny Shadow Zone into... shadow...
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December of 2007. I'm a late comer, I know. *gasps*
*has to get visiting this board more often*
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I'm not sure what year it was, but I'll guess around 1999-2000. My grandmother bought me the book Visser (or something like that. It had one of the big blue aliens on the cover). Anyway, I loved that one, but for some reason, never read the series.
Today, I was going through my bookshelf, and I saw my Remnants books (loved that series), and remembered Animorphs. So, I decided to look for a place to read Animorphs, and see how it is.
I've read through the first one now, and am about 3/4 through the second. I'm loving them so far!
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It was around 2002 and I had #6, 5 4, 22 and a few more, I was bored one day so I just picked up #6 and was sucked into teh series
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in 1996 when it first came out, i was 10. my friend had the invasion and said it was awesome so i should read it. i was hooked from then till this day ;D
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My younger sister was reading the series because she had run out of books of her own to read and my brother had told her that Animorphs was a great series. I used to volounteer at the library so I'd take home some of the books for her whenever they came in and requested a few books as well. I can't remember the exact reason why I started it :P But it was probably because I was bored because I thought they were kids books and I was fourteen. But I started with book 14, and I liked it so I read a few more and decided to give the series a try~ I just started re-reading them in December (finished in Jan.)though, and fell in love with the series all over again :D
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I bought my first animorphs in 1998 (12 years ago already :'(). I was 9 at that time.
I bought it because a girl changed into a horse on the cover (animorphs 14 with Cassie) but I thought it was a normal girl who just had this power, not a group of young people in charge of saving our planet ::)
I started to read it and realized I was mistaken so I dropped it on a shelf.
A few months later, as I was bored to death during an afternoon after school I saw that book on one of my shelves and as I had never really read it I thought I could give it a try.
I did and couldn't give the book up for the whole afternoon. I laughed so much >< (at that time I found very funny the "Cindy Crawford, Fox Mulder" moment, as well as the fact that they put so much effort in finding... toilets ;D, af for the final scene, the general or officer reminded me of a French actor, Louis De Funes, in one of his movies)
Anyway, I finished the book in the afternoon and I started to have an animorphs bulimia :o
You know how it is... You want to put your hands on all of them and you start writing little stories with the characters ;D
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I was finishing middle school or was already in high school not exactly sure . but i was maybe 15 years old when i started reading. got book 3 and 4 from the local library. read 4 first cause I liked the cover. got 1 and 5 after that. it took me ages to get book 2
by that time i was now buying the books with my allowance. I used to clean a neighbor's house they used to pay me like 5 pr so to clean stuff. I would after that go my my book at the magazine and book section at the grocery store. One day when i was sick in bed my mom surprised me with book 2.
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1999 here. i remembered always seeing it around since 1996, but never bothered to read it. my friends were all into it since then. posters all around my primary school library. so one day, in 1999 at the local library, i saw it and decided to burrow it - book no.1 the invasion, just to see what its all about. and then i really liked it and thats how i got into it.
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I bought my first Animorphs book, #3, in October 1998. I bought my last one (#51, I'd borrowed it from a friend but never bought my own) in November 2009. XD
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1996, right when #3 had come out...I bought all three on a whim :D I had just turned 12 not long before that.
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For some reason I remember precisely what I was doing at the time I started reading Animorphs, and exactly why I did it. I was...one of those kids who reads early and then reads everything in sight. <_<; I started reading around the same time as Myitt, but I was seven or eight years old. Five or so years younger. X3
I saw the first book just laying around on the table among the collection of books we could read in the classroom. I'd just gone through the Rats of NIMH and I thought the cover looked interesting. So I picked up the book, read it, and was hooked instantly. During the school Book Fair, I got ahold of the first four and read through the first two again just so I could do it all in order. :3
After that, I was a constant visitor to my local Borders, always waiting for and getting ahold of the latest Animorphs book.
I stopped at #42. The series had gotten too filler-ey and oddly written. X3 I never finished. Ever. Despite this, I've read spoilers for the ending and skimmed parts of the last three recently. ^^;;;;
And after re-reading some of the books again, I remembered why I loved the series so much. :D:D
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I don't remember the year to be honest, but I remember that it was the third book and despite the fact that a boy ate a rat (how disgusting was that for the first time?) it was still interesting enough that I kept with it and picked up the rest of the books and caught up with them.
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Woulda been grade three for me. 1998, I suppose. Ran across #6 in my elementary school library, and was so enthralled by the image of a dude turning into a fly that I had to read it. And as they say, the rest is history.
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2009 ;D December.
Im reading book #7 now atm
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I was a relatively latecomer to the series as well. I didn't actually get into the series until I was in high school. I mean, I know that sounds kind of odd, but it was in year 7 or 8, so I was 11/12/13. I knew of the series in primary school, but I never read any, to the best of my knowledge. I think I might've picked one or two of the books up and skimmed over them, but never took much notice. (Looking back, I would definitely have read them then if I felt the way I do about them now.) Then, when I was in year 7 or 8 (I'm really unsure which it was), my sister started buying the books from our local bookstore, as they were clearing them out (this was 2004/5), in one of those book bins, like 5 for $10, then they discounted them, so it was 5 for $5. My sister got some of the books I didn't because by the time I took an interest in the series after reading her copy of #2, (she didn't have #1; I have it now, but I had to buy it through eBay as nowhere had it) when we went to the store, she was just looking for the ones she didn't have, and I was looking to start (and expand) my collection. Then, after I had read all the ones me and my sister bought, I checked out our local libraries, and my school library, and they had a few of the ones I hadn't read yet, so I read those, then bought some off eBay.
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My first book was #1 The Invasion. I picked it up from the school library for my English class assignment. I was about 11-12 at the time so I really liked the fact that the characters were around my age. The rest is history ;D
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No. 1 my old school had a shelf just for the series ;D
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I picked up the first three of them in latter part of 1996 from the Scholastic book fair at my school. They were the only ones that were out at the time, then forgot about them until that summer, when I found that the city library had actually managed to have all 8 of them so that I could read them without skipping around (which I hated). I didn't manage to follow it much further than that, even once they were solidly on a monthly release schedule that was too far apart to hold my interests so I just moved on to devouring other books and finally picked them all up once the series was finished so that I could peruse them without having to wait impatiently for further release dates.
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gr.3 i read either bk19 or bk2 first i don't exactly remember
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It was right after the fourth book came out, my mom saw the dolphin on the cover and bought it for me because I absolutely loved dolphins. Little did she know that she was going to unleash a whole new level of obsession! I was one of those freaky kids who would read at least one book every day, so that same day I got my mom to take me to the local Barnes & Noble so that I could get the first three. From that point on, I was completely hooked.
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Argh... I just finished the series and it ended on a cliffhanger!!!!!!! >:(
K.A.Applegate did say sorry about that