Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Visser19 on May 07, 2010, 02:25:10 PM
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When I was a young warthog... wait, sorry, wrong fansite...
When I was young, I remember seeing Animorphs books in the Elementary school library and thinking that they looked interesting, but I didn't want to read them. I thought I would be too nerdy if I did. Ha, that's how it was with virtually every series, TV, Movie or Books, that I have ever gone into, including Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Harry Potter, etc. All of these I was against for a long time until I finally broke down and was hooked. (Star Wars was a different story, but my Dad showed me that probably when I was 1 so that's different.)
So, I always saw the books, and they were available to order through the book orders that we always took home as kids, but I didn't want to read them. It wasn't until we visited family in Mesa, AZ one summer that all that changed. My cousin Ronnie formally introduced me to the series and he already had many of the books (I started way late). I was like, "Cool, that's nice... :-\" But I wasn't interested. But for the few days we were their he kept on talking about Animorphs over and over. Finally when we left, he gave me a copy of The Invasion, all torn and falling apart. He told me to read it on the way home. So, since I had nothing to do for the long ride back to Southern California, I decided to read it.
Immediately I was into it. Road stops were just a nuisance and I didn't want to eat, and even though I occasionally got a little car sick from reading, and even though the lighting was horrible at night, I continued reading. When we got home I finished the book soon after. Ever since then, I was, well, hooked.
I still have that same battered and beat copy of The Invasion that my cousin gave to me. It now serves as a great piece of sentimental history for me that I will never get rid of.
So what is your story of how you came to be an Ani-Freak? :logo: :controller:
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Is that a Lion King fansite, or just a Timon and Puumba fansite?
Anyway, I once went inside a bookstore that I had never gone into before and saw the cover of a boy turning into a blue alien, and thought that might be an interesting read. I soon found an interesting tale of a group of shapeshifters fghting a war against body stealing parasites. That boy I thought was turning into an alien turned out to be an alien turning into a boy. When I went by the bookstore a week later, I started looking for more Animorphs books. Book fifteen was the latest book from the series I found that summer.
I like science fiction stories, so aliens interest me. And these aliens were more like Star Wars types of aliens than Sar Trek, which was nice.
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I was 9 or 10. I also got those book orders at school from Scholastic. In these book orders, there would occasionally be different clubs you could join. I signed up for the horror/sci-fi club. I can't remember what it was called... I mostly got things about werewolves and ghosts. One month, I got a small booklet with a picture of a boy turning into a lizard. It was a sample chapter of The Invasion (the one where Jake turns into a Green Anole lizard). I saw the actual book for sale in the next book order and I got it. I think I was behind by only 6 books then. I had to hunt for the ones I was missing. I started getting them regularly after about book 12 or so(?). It was quite a while before I had 2, 3, MM1, and 8.
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I was in 4th grade. A friend-in-passing got me hooked on them. Interesting thing is, I don't really talk to her anymore.
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i saw it at borders and liked the concept. i think i started reading them about when book 15 came out.
(i was young, yes.)
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I was about 8 yrs old when I saw #1,2, and 3 at a book fair at my school. I got all three of them and have addicted ever since!
I think I had 20-something of the books when my family and I moved to England. The publishers in the UK were very slow at getting the series out and one day they vanished off the shelves all together. So with the power of the internet (bless you Amazon.co.uk!!!) I have managed to track down and complete my Animorphs collection. I love it- they're all dog-eared and battered and the covers are all mismatched due to the different publishing companies!
So I was 8 when I began the series and 22 when I finally read the end....that's a long war!
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I remember my friends gettin into them. But I didn't start reading into book4. I saw a dolphin on the cover and I was obsessed with dolphins lol my mom bought it for my birthday but I begged and begged until she gave it to me. I read it on the kitchen floor...for some reason I loved reading on he kitchen floor as a kid lol
I don't remember how many books in he series were out yet. I think it was near the beginning
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I was browsing my library, looking for something good to read, and happened across part of the series. I got hooked incredibly quickly, so much so that I ended up downloading all of the e-books from here just so I wouldn't have to wait for my weekly library trip to get the rest of the series. That also took care of waiting for other fans to surrender the books they already had checked out. ;)
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God, I remember this like most people remember meeting their SO.
I was in 3rd grade and my teacher had a lot of books on the classroom bookshelf. One of them happened to be the Invasion. I was going through them, as I was a nerd, and I picked up the Invasion. I remember becoming so engrossed that, when it was time to actually begin to learn, I could barely put the book down. I quickly collected all of the others--I think the trilogy was just out when I started the series--and then started that horrible wait for the next one.
I lost faith in the series during the ghostwriter stretch of the '40s but bought and read all of them after the Beginning came out again.
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It was 1995. Animorphs #2 had just come out. Scholastic set up a book fair in my elementary school library and, intrigued by #1, I spent the $10 my mom had given me on both books (back when they were only about $4 apiece). And the rest is history. ;D
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Got my hands on the first one in the library, around 8 years ago, I think? I was already crazy about animals and genes, so the whole morphing-DNA-young teens thing just grabbed at me and, as Marie said, the rest is history :)
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I got into them at the tender age of eight or nine. But I had a high reading level like many RAFians. ;D
I had just finished the Rats of NIMH when I saw the first and second books on the table, near the area where all the books were kept. I began to read them and was immediately drawn into the complex plot and interesting characters. For a kid's book. :3
When the school book fair came around again (God I loved that thing), I got ahold of Books 1-5. And ever since that point, I went to the book store each month hunting for Animorphs books. Though I stopped at #42 due to how bad the ghostwriter was, I never forgot the series and love it to this day.
Aliens and fascism and morphing! And REBELS! Ohmy! :D:D
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I'm a few years younger than most RAFians and started the series late as far as age goes. I think I may have started on the series thanks to a teachers bookshelf but I'm not really sure. All I know is that once I got hooked on them, my grandmother started buying them for me at yard sales and flea markets and such. I was lucky, because by the time I started reading there were many back issues and I got to read all of them for the first time while waiting for the new ones to come out.
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My parents would literally bribe me with these books when I first got into them. I cleaned my room and got #5 as a reward. They gave me a different book from the trilogy each day for Christmas. I caught up on 1-22 in a weird order, then, but for a while my parents had a stash of Animorph books to reward me with.
I was Pavlov's effing dog.
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Scholastic book fairs were rockin. I just wish the books weren't so damn expensive! You would read them in an hour!
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I was looking for books to read on a long car ride and saw the big stand with the first 8 books advertising buy 2 get 1 free. I got the first three and then 4,5,6 two days later, and 7,8 the day after that. Then I waited for 9 to come out.
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back in 4th grade this kid who skipped a grade, Smidge (yes, I called him that to his face, eveybody did and he responds to it), had #8 out. I took one look at it and thought, "this has to be the weirdest book I'v ever seen." you can't blame me, when you don't know the background, it looks like a kid turning in to an alien. Then I read the back and thought, "what the heck is wrong with this kid?" a few days later, Smidge was going on about this series called Animorphs. I picked up #1 and began to read. I was hooked halfway through. I still remember my frist true thought about it. "What kind of name is Visser Three?"
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Hello, I'm new here. :)
I first became addicted to the Animorphs by first reading, "The Andalite's Gift". I was looking for a new book to start and the cover caught my attention, so I got that one. I had no idea that it was out of sequence, but the storyline was so good and the characters detailed enough for me to follow it. Afterwards, I then went in order, but stopped reading them since the storyline was becoming redundant, but I plan on starting over again. My favorite book out of all of them is "The Andalite Chronicles". They're my favorite species by the way.
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I'd been seeing them in the scholastic flyers for a while, but was only allowed to get one book per flyer, and I usually got the latest Goosebumps book, and so never could get Animorphs. But one day I noticed Animorphs book #2 at my school's library. I just read the back blurb, and, well, let's just say that I never got the Goosebumps books from the scholastic flyers again after that.
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I got the first and second through Scholastic book order when they first came out.
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I was probably 5 or 6 years old, i was at a camp and swimming in a pool while a friend of mine was reading off to the side. i went to him and asked what he was reading because the cover with a guy turning into a jaguar looked cool. he told me then lent me the book when he was done. I really liked it (though for the first half of the book, i didnt realize they were turning into animals (i thought tobias was a pilot :P))
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These are all sweet stories. This is what this site is all about. Isn't it great to talk with other people who know what Animorphs is and share the love of it?
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Yeah, it is.
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For me it was just a normal day at the libary,I was bored with nothing to do so I was looking through the bookshelves.And I came to the section with Animorphs and I got abit curious.I looked through them and saw #8 The Alien with Ax on the cover(And this was back when I was first getting into centaurs alot) and I thought"Hey this might be cool to have centaurs in them." Of course later on I knew there wasn't,but by that time I was so amazed at how well the books was,I couldn't stop myself and found out how me and Tobias have so much in common in life.
Then after awhile I stopped reading,I was..just lost with the world,boring again,forgot they where there,till I found an old book in a box at home,read it,re-liked them and have been collected since and rping Tobias as often as I can as well as useing his name for my username here,out of respect for the character and the series as well.
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I love centaurs as well.
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Whoa...me too.*gives a centaur hug to you.*
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8) 8)
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Scholastic book fairs were rockin. I just wish the books weren't so damn expensive! You would read them in an hour!
I totally agree....but i was told it was better than Goosebumps. Then I was like "Oh really?"...I met Rachel, and the rest is history
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Borrowed the 2nd book from a friend on the bus while in 2nd grade :]
I was hooked from then on out
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I happened to catch the tv series on , which I ended up hating, when I was 9 or 10. I thought it looked interesting and fortunately the scholastic book fair (i think that's what it was) was at my school. I ended up reading 20, 18, and MM2. I got hooked on them instantly. After one of the times I moved I lost all the books, they were somewhere in the upper 30s, and stopped reading them.
About a week ago I realized my phone has a pdf reader so I started looking for free ebooks to read, realized I don't like a lot of books so I started to look up books I've already read. On a weird urge I looked up animorphs and was shocked to find this place. I decided to read a couple mostly for nostalgic reasons, and I was amazed at the sense of humor and content of the books. I'm rereading the whole series now.
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First saw them in those Scholastic Book Fair things things they sent out every month. XD Didn't read the books till after I watched the TV show. I liked it, till I'd read the books. :P It's most endearing quality was that it came on once a week, and I was suffering under the month-long waits.
::) I was so spoiled. Now a year wait seems like nothing. :P
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My mom bought #3 for a christmas game, where the players win the presents that are brought.
I can't remember who actually won the book (it wasn't me), but somehow I ended up trading the present I won to get the book instead. I guess I fell in love with the cover at first sight, because I've always loved birds of prey, and what's more cool than a boy who turns into such an awesome animal? :D
I was hooked right away!
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I was in a bookstore with my grandma, able to get any book I wanted. The book I choose was The Message and after that I went with my mom, caught up on the books, and then stayed with them every month.
I loved them in elementary school and they got me through middle school, too.
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Back when I was in elementary school, the bus I rode had assigned seats, and my assigned seat was with a guy who was in like middle school. I was a hyper little kid, but I loved to read, so he chucked some Animorphs books at me to keep me quiet. ;D
From there though, I got into it enough to follow them at the library, and to read the ones that my teacher had in the classroom (I specifically recall the Andalite Chronicles in three books), and then when I was in middle school the series was working it's way to it's end, and I ordered the latest volumes as they came out through the book order forms.
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I watced the show when I was in Kindergarten and my next door neighbor had like 3 books. Once I was old enough to read the books, she gave hers to me and the rest was history
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I got the Scholastic catalogs, so when the series began in '96 I got in on it from the start. I was 10, and kept with the series month by month until sometime in the summer of 2000. I remember the last book I read was #38. I went ten years without reading the rest of the series, then caught up with it this summer. I've actually still got #53 and #54 to go!
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It's funny, really. When I was younger, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. The library I went to had a bunch of Animorph books (Which were above my reading level at the time) and I think that I may have seen MM2. I didn't really think about Animorphs for quite a while (I was too obsessed with Kung Fu, Sherlock Holmes and Russian Lit). Later I decided to read some of the Animorphs from our library. My mom can be quite picky about stuff, so often when I start a new series I'm kind of secretive about it. i read about half of the first book at the library. From the moment I read "My name is Jake." I was HOOKED. That was about three years ago.
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I got hooked in grade three,my teacher kept bin for the animorphs books and one day i saw book 19 and i liked the cover since it looked so cool and pretty and not freaky like some do so i read it(i LOVE to read)and i liked the book. i also read the 2nd book.I didn't see the books again till grade 5.I aw the books and wanted to read it but i like to fit in with other people so i didn't until i saw my friend read it and i was so hooked i read a book a day and read all in my class and in the school library
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Ok, so this story is (and statement) is probably a bit over dramatic, but it really feels like the Animorphs got me started on who i am.
i got into it around second grade. my friend wanted me to start reading the series and i was adamantly against it. I hated reading and figured i would be bored to tears. He lent me The Andalite Chronicles and it just sort of laid on my floor for a few months. After my grandfather died i picked it up, the whole escapist thing, and was hooked. I helplessly devoured every book i could get a hold of and waited impatiently for the next.
a few years later i was reading Tolkien and T. H. White and a little later i started writing sci-fi.
after i moved and a number of setbacks occurred, i stopped reading them. I picked them up again last Christmas and just finished the last one last night. Epic.
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A friend showed it to me some years ago
I read the first two books and thought they were pretty awesome, even though the Norwegian version of the books kinda sucks. I was only eight at the time. They only had book #1-16 at the library, so after book 16, I just forgot about the them.
One year later, I saw some of the books in a bookstore, and bought two of them (#15 and #32)
That's when I got hooked. I found out that they had gotten almost every book at the library, so off course, I read them.
Now, at age twelve (very soon thirteen), I'm reading them in Norwegian again, and after I have finished all of them, I'm planning on reading them in English :P
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It all started with my oldr sister. The few that she did manage to buy were on a shelf, I used to read the summary and get the jitters from the whole Yeerks thing. Anyways one night when I was in high school and I had read every other book in the house I finally decided to read the first book, after that I was hooked. I managed to get several from a used book store, my sister hadn't bought them all. Finally I heard about this site and began reading the ebooks.
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I got Book #1 from the library when I was eight or nine and went from there, getting them from the library, bookshops and even the American-cover imports from Borders when I was super desperate. Growing up on Goosebumps I always wanted something exciting to happen to me and at nine, I used to pretend the Yeerk Invasion was real. I didn't trust any of my teachers.
Embarrassingly true; I'm twenty-two now and just re-read the series. I was at a restaurant last Sunday; I looked at my watch and absent-mindedly thought; 'I should demorph soon'. Clearly Animorphs has affected me profoundly..
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^I'm twenty and when I cut myself in the shower recently, my first thought was "demorph!".