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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Yorick Brown on July 26, 2008, 04:58:58 PM
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It was May 1997.
I was in the fifth grade, ten year-old old going on eleven. A Scholastic book fair was being held in the school's gymnasium.
Looking for something to purchase, I saw Animorphs books for sale on this one table. The covers really caught my eye and I was already intrigued after watching commercials and seeing posters for the series that launched a year ago.
I bought The Invasion, The Encounter, The Capture and The Stranger. I was hooked and checked out every other book the Animorphs universe from the local library ever since.
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Book sale at public library, got #3, #4, #5. Tried reading them, got bored and confused. stopped. two years later, got book 1. I understood, and it was interesting. went back and read the other animorphs books I had. then went to library to read more books.
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Hmm...interesting. The parallels are spooky!
It was ALSO 1997 and I was also in fifth grade ten or eleven years old (I forget if this happened before or after my birthday). My teacher had a big bookshelf in the back of the room and I was looking for something good to read. I noticed #5 The Predator, but then realized it was the fifth in the series. When I asked my teacher she said she had the first one but another student, Nick, was reading it. I went and asked him if I could read it and he refused, saying I could have it when he finished. I was very angry (because obviously my reading the book is more important than him finishing the book) and stomped off to read #5. I was utterly confused, but I loved the idea of turning into animals (animal lover). I finished MUCH faster than Nick, who was not much of a reader, and bugged him constantly until he gave me #1 to read and never spoke to me again.
Totally worth it.
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Lol, Terenia. Good story. ;D
At my old elementary school, we had to go to the school library every week, pick out a book, and take a test on it Friday. I was bored and couldn't find anything to read, so at the last minute, I grabbed The Visitor off the shelf and checked it out. I didn't like it. I was horribly confused, so I just skimmed it. Failed the test. A year later, I saw The Encounter and read it. It was a little more interesting and understandable, but I was still confused. Then I read The Capture and really enjoyed it. Then, finally, FINALLy one day, I found The Invasion sitting on the shelf and checked it out. Ever since, I've been an obsessive Animorphs addict.
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I wonder if there's any fan out there who first read an animorphs book that wasn't book 1, and wasn't confused.
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I'm not sure that's possible, lol.
Imagine if someones first book was something like Visser or The Ellimist Chronicles. O_O That would be SO confusing!
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I don't remember... (I usually forget the past)
But I guess I just bought the 1st, then the 2nd ... and read them ^_^'
I was 16, if I remember. One of my friends liked Animorphs too, but couldn't buy the books, so she tried to copy mine on her computer... by typing! ^_^' She couldn't, of course, it was too big...
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My brother had a number of them. Got bored one day in either 2000 or 2001, and picked up The Conspiracy. It wasn't bad, nor was it deeply confusing. I found the concept interesting; don't remember the sequence of reading, but it was nowhere near cronological.
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lol, I read book 5 first too!
I was... 7 years old I think, might have been 8 (I don't remember the month). First saw #5 in my school library and loved the idea of turning into animals, so I read it. Probably the first book I ever truly enjoyed reading. I can see why people might find it a little confusing to read a book besides #1 first, but I didn't have much of a problem with it. They explain the basic background so it wasn't like I had no clue what had happened before.
Not long after reading the #5 in the library, I saw it in a shop and bought it. At the same time my brother bought #4 because he really liked Dolphins at the time. He lent me #4 (pretty sure that's the version I still have!) which I read and then started to collect the rest anytime I saw a new one in the shops. I think #8 had just come out, so I got that and soon got hold of the others from various places. After that I continued to collect them in order as they were released. Books 46-54, Visser, Megamorphs #3, Megamorphs #4 and The Ellimist Chronicles I got for Christmas one year, which had to be imported from the US because I was too impatient to wait for the rest of the series to come out over here! ;D
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I wonder if there's any fan out there who first read an animorphs book that wasn't book 1, and wasn't confused.
My first book was eight, and it did confuse me a bit.
There was this small bookstore that I had never been to where I saw a few Animorphs books. I read a little bit of one, and decided to buy it. I also found a few more besides #8, and bought them. I don't remember the year or anything, but soon after reading 8 and the other few books, I saw 15. So I think I got into the series around the time 15 came out.
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*recalls story once more* I was ... I think eighth grade? Meh, who cares. Point is, I got one of those crummy teen magazines they had back then, thinking it was *so cool* to read, and I was leafing through it (probably for pictures of Devon Sawa XD), and out fell a little 10-page packet thingy that has this really weird cover on it with a kid's face turning into a lizard. Well...I read this teaser magazine insert for "Ani-whatever-it's-called" and it went on from there. *bows* thank ya. I got the first book the month it came out, wanting more, and you guys know the rest. Been an AniFan ever since.
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It was only like 2 years ago...end of 4th grade. My friend was reading the first one and I had remembered watching the TV show. I decided I wanted to read the first one...He lended it to me, I read it and I was hooked.
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Ken's a new-kid-on-the-block, Animorphs-wise *nostalgic sniffle*
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I was either 10 or 11, and there was a group of kids who just got their brand new Animorphs books from a book fair/order. One nice girl insisted I take one (probably 3 or 7?). I read it, got hooked, borrowed her other ones, bought #1 and kept going :)
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I don't know the exact date, but I'd wager that it's around the time that book #15 came out.
I'd been seeing the books in the scholastic fliers since around book 12, and they'd caught my attention, but I didn't have enough money to buy both that and my regular goosebumps books. But a little later I saw book 2 at the school library, read it, and fell in love, and then immediately bought the next book from Scholastic, which was book 15.
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I started reading a while after the series finished, i think, maybe 2002, i was eleven. I started with #11, the one where they go back in time for the first time.
It wasnt really all that confusing, not that i remember. But i didnt get any new books for a while, cause i couldnt find them. But slowly i found more and more of them (usually in second hand book stores).
So for me it was more gradual hooking.
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2000 for me..i was ten and my brother had #22 for some reason, and i read it and can't remember if I liked it or not (coz it was a confusing storyline if you don't really know what the series is about) but he obviously liked it and got The Invasion..so yeah Mum signed us up for bookclub and we used to get two a month or fortnight or something.
I loved that club, I got really into it and my brother thought I was a loser haha..
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I can't really remember the year, it was 2004 I think. Anyway, I was in grade 4 and bored. My teacher had bookshelf So, I looked through. I found The visitor, decided to give it a try. I finished it, thinking, OMG, This RULES! so, i read the Escape, loved it too. So, then began my Animorphs book crusade. The six library's only had ONE book, #43. So, then I hit all the local used bookstores, I then bought half the series, and the rest? I read them as Ebooks and did interlibrary loans to get the rest.
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It was a dark and stormy night. ::) Nah, it was the middle of summer, 1996, and I was 12...looking for Choose Your Own Adventures books in Barnes and Noble, and I happened to see the first three Animorphs books. Thought they looked cool. On a whim I bought all three, and I remember finishing the Invasion and going...holy crap...I am teh hooked for lifes...yep. Beginning of the end, right there.
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I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books.
I'm hoping to one day make a live action or animated half-hour children's program for Saturday mornings where there's an adventure and the scnarios are already filmed or drawn. The next direction is chosen by viewers on-line.
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I think I was about...seven when I read my first Animorphs book. Which makes it around '97, maybe end of '96.
I was never much of a reader back then. I found it boring. Though I would sometimes see "The Invasion" sitting on a bookself at Target. Never touched it.
Then one day I was at the library with my father. I was browsing when he walks up with this book with a girl turning into a cat on the cover ("The Visitor"). Deciding to give it a try, I read it from cover to cover and was hooked immedietly. I bought what I could, read from the library what I could, and finally caught up to KAA somewhere in the twenties (the twenties being the number of books, not my twenties. I'm still only 18 here! ;) ). I did have to do a little filling in the blanks, since I read what I could find, but it only really mattered when I read things like book 7 before book 4 or book 29 before book 14. But everything else I picked up fairly easily.
Now, I eat books for breakfast. Repeatedly.
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Saw them in a Scholastic magazine at school late grade school and like "That looks interesting". So I had my mom order them and I was instantly hooked. Scraped together the $5 every month for the next book and dragged my mother to the bookstore the day they came out.
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I'm not sure that's possible, lol.
Imagine if someones first book was something like Visser or The Ellimist Chronicles. O_O That would be SO confusing!
My first book was number 14. It was from my grandma, and she chose it because I'm horse-mad and it had a horse on the cover. I was a little confused, but I was still hooked. My next one was number 16, then number 2. Number 1 came quite late for me!
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I too read the books in non-chronological order up until the mid twenties. Sure it was a bit confusing but somehow it all made sense back then (as though I just filled in the pieces as I read them). I'm still not sure how I was able to manage that to this day.
I originally just picked them based on the cover art (when I was ten or so).
Once I finally caught up I began buying them in order as they came out.
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Book 6 at my school library. Was in 5th grade I think and I saw it on the rack. A kid turning into a fly, looked cool enough for me and I had to check out a book to meet my reading requirement. Read through it and from that moment on, Jake was like my role model. A week after finishing the book I bought every single book at Barnes & Nobles (big book store chain for those who don't have it). I think there were maybe 7 or 8 books out at the time and I kept buying and reading them all the way to 28. At the end when I found out there was no point to the book I just stopped. Picked them up again when I stumbled across this website while searching for the old Animorphs TV show. I was curious at how long that went on. Found this place with you all and got all the books. School got busy so I didn't have time until summer rolled around, and thats when I went on a binge. Two hours a book on average, reading non-stop for a week.
Afterwards I got on here and well, ya'll know the rest :)
Edit: On a side note, I must have read the whole David saga like 20 times. I just loved how messed up it was, the drama or thinking Tobias was dead and Jake was about to die, had to be the longest month of my life waiting to find out what happened. Different now since even for first timers, you know the books go on until the 50's but back then, you all know how it is!
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Hi, I ran through all the forum and couldn find anything like this, so I post it. The title says it all. How did you get into animorphs? Schoolastic book fair? Teacher? Birthday present? Share your stories!!!
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I remember that in gr 3 I got bored with nothing to read so I took animorphs #2. Them I really liked it, and in grade 5, I saw the books again and started reading them again, so now I'm crazy about it ^_^
(also, I do remember replying to something like this)
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There is a thread like this somewhere...anyone out there able to find it?
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Well, why not post it here, because face it, that thread's over 120 days old. Probably WAAAAAY older.
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There is a thread like this somewhere...anyone out there able to find it?
http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=684.msg33059#msg33059 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=684.msg33059#msg33059)
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I saw a picture of a bunny rabbit on the book when I was about eight. I liked bunny rabbits when I was eight
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OK it looks like the threads were merged.
I like reading this stuff, although it makes me feel odd since most of you were kids when you started lol
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I was in elementary school (forgot which grade) while I was in the library looking for a book to read. Then i saw Book 1 and started reading it. I guess the cover caught my eye. I have been a fan ever since :D
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Saw the first few books at one of those book fair things they have in elementary schools. I got them and that was it, game over.
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The first Animorphs book I read was before even the turn of the millennium, around the late nineties. I was in the school that would eventually become MLC, and I read #15. The Escape. I didn't understand half of what was being said because I was, after all, quite young and I hadn't read the others. But, years later, around the time of 9/11, I read #8. The Alien as part of a required school reading thing. I honestly can't remember what the thing was or the other book, but #8. The Alien stood out at me, mainly because of the alien POV and the nice cover work on the front. I wanted to learn more about Animorphs, and the rest, as they say, was history. ;D
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I was in...late elementary school/early middle school and remember seeing these books in a scholastic magazine and I was curious. It was the first two I got and I was hooked, made my mom take me to the bookstore every month to get the next one. I really need to read them again. It's been a long time.
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My cousin had all of the Animorphs books, except for the invasion. the first one I read was the Visitor. I was really little and didn't remember much, then about a year ago a friend got me back into them. My cousin gave me all his Animorph books! :D The only problem is he lives a few states away and I have yet to actually RECIEVE them.
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I'm not sure how old I was, but we had some of the books lying around for my brothers/sister. Basically I was bored and decided why not read it? Now I love it.
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WHy isn't animorphs cool anymore? *weep*
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We need to expand our horizons. Maybe we should start a revival movement. Or get a petition started to have another movie or series or even anime started.
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or series? Would that mean more animorphs books or tv series? :huh:
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If we got the right writers, it would work as a series. I mean, take a look at Dragonball Evolution, for example: UGH!!! Do not want! It was SO horrifically awful. I mean, you could have taken any one of a hundred Dragon Ball fanboys across America and given him the writing job, and they would have done an infinitely better job than the so-called Hollywood producers.
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If someone would make an Animorphs anime, I would write the script for free, lol.
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I think most of us could do it quite easily. :P Certainly better than the Hollywood producers, anyway. ::)
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yeah, agreed. ^_^
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definitely
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honestly, look at some of the fanfictions on here. Im picturing the animorphs movie as George Lucises last chance
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Well, when fanfiction writers are better than the actual Hollywood producers, you know something's wrong. All they care about these days is money and showing off big special effects. Where's the message? Where's the heart? Movies twenty years ago used to mean something. That aside, if they ever do make an anime out of it, I want the people who did Elfen Lied. That would portray the Animorphs realistically; as a war is hell piece. Hell, pop is so good at analyzing it that if you involved him in some way, I'm sure the project would be a huge hit! Or any other RAFian!
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I actually only got into Animorphs because it was the series we had to read for our 6th grade English class. We were able to complete the series within the school year (the teacher had about 10 books removed that he didn't believe contributed much). We've had class discussions/debates and tests on them. I enjoyed the series so I decided to complete the series with the additional books (ie HBC, TAC, TEC, etc.).
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I actually only got into Animorphs because it was the series we had to read for our 6th grade English class.
Really? Lucky! I wish that my class would do that
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I want to blackmail my teacher into reading two chapters a day
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I first came across book one and seventeen three years ago by accident, through an aquaintance of my elder sister. Then a couple of months ago, I downloaded the free ebooks on RAF and read them all consecutively. Cheapskate, aren't I? :P