How much has Animorphs impacted you as a reader?

[Azguard]

 Oh man....I am a reader. BUT, I believe I can trace the origin of that all the way back to 3rd grade, when my friend was reading an Animorph book. He loaned it to me....the rest is history. It was like book #2 or something and the series was just under way. I thank that friend eternally, because I not only made TONS of friends (still making them today, thanks RAF ^^), but I believe that's when I got started in reading. From that, I believe I've had a better education because i was a good reader. But it all started with Animorphs. What would I do without it!

 How about you guys?

[traycon3]

Your story kinda sounds like mine.
I know that before maybe second grade(?) I wasn't much of a reader. In fact, I thought reading was boring and a pain, much like a multitude of people today. (Except for when I was at the aquarium and was on a fish hunt, but that's a different story all together.)
However, I remember I went to the library with my dad one day. Not fairly unusual, since my parents were--and still are--avid readers. So, we seperated in the library for a bit, me sort of staring at the books with no real desire to read them, when my dad comes back with a few books. One was some story about a cat and the other was a book with a girl turning into a cat on the cover. (Are you sensing a pattern?)
I don't know what made me decide to give the second book a try, but I figured it couldn't hurt anything. Especially if the girl was becoming a cat. I was hooked almost immedietly. And so was my mom, to a point, since she was reading them to make sure that they weren't too mature for me.
As it is it was through Animorphs that I met my best friend and my other very good friend. And all of you Rafians, because where would I be without all you equally obsessed people? Why, probably in an insane asylum, talking to a blue wall as if it were Ax.

[Chad32]

I was an avid reader long before I got into Animorphs. It was, however, my favorite book series.

As far as the impact, when I read the books I got used to getting a new book every month. The books were around 150 pages long, give or take. I have read other book series where the books were around 400 pages, but am confused as to why it would take a year to put out each book.

If it only takes a month for a certain writer to put out 150 pages of masterpiece, then why would it take twelve months for other authors to put out 400 pages? I find that weird.

That's one way Animorphs impacted me as a reader.

[traycon3]

Because KAA's books were fairly formulaic. They're children's books, after all.
It also can depend on how many other books the author is working on, if the author has a fairly formulaic pattern, if the author has ghostwriters, if the author tends to get writer's block, how big the font is, ect.

[Chad32]

You have a point. I just don't tend to think of that stuff.

[Azguard]

Your story kinda sounds like mine.

 LOL, for some reason i read that as "your story sounds kinda lame."

 hahahah

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

My story's similar to some of yours. I had to take a test at the end of the week on some book at the library. Didn't know what to pick. Got one of the books in the 30's, I think. I was too confused, at first, but I picked up some of the earlier books later and became hooked. I don't think I would enjoy reading as much as I do now if it weren't for Animorphs. Really. One of the things I say now to people is, "You don't hate reading. You just haven't found a good book."

And it's true. In your childhood years, if you become an avid reader at all, you will find a book or series of a certain genre, that you absolutely love. Sci-fi is my favorite, thanks to Animorphs. I wasn't really interested in anything else at the time.

Animorphs is also the reason I'm here. Without Animorphs, I would never have met half of you wonderful, crazy people.

[Azguard]

 you know what? that is totally true. I never thought about that. Animorphs is the reason why I'm into sci-fi! I also started loving science strictly because of animorphs!

[Cloak]

My story is different from you guys, I guess.

I was always an avid reader -- just not an avid reader of fiction.  When I was younger, I always preferred nonfiction books about animals (which basically earned me the title of the "animal guy" in my later school days and enabled me to pass classes like biology and animal-related Science classes without really trying).

Then I got into Goosebumps.  Then I got into Animorphs (after watching the TV show) in my late teens.  Of course, with my speed of reading Animorphs, my family joked every time after I got a new book that it would be read by the end of the day.  They were usually right.

Then my little sister and I made a bet where I would read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone if she read the first five books of Animorphs.  She never finished the first one, but I finished the first Potter book, and became hooked on that.

So, naturally, I reread and re-reread my Goosebumps, Animorphs, and Potter books (in that order).

[Chad32]

I got into Goosebumps when my sister gave me a book for Christmas. There were already 150 books or so of that series, so there was never a waiting period. I never read the whole series, though.

[Cloak]

Neither did I, Nohensen.  I only have a few because the collection that originally read from were my sister's and she let me read them for the sole reason of having power over me. . . . That's also why she wanted the Playstation in her room.  So, I've taken to recollecting them (except for Monster Blood III, I kept that ).

[Liz]

I read a lot from an early age, so I can't say Animorphs got me to read more.  And it didn't really get me into science fiction either, I still prefer fantasy and historical novels in general.

I think Animorphs did get me interested in animals though, particularly raptors.  When I went to a wildlife museum as a kid I was going crazy over the peregrine falcons and red-tailed hawks.

[Hylian Dan]

Animorphs was a huge childhood obsession of mine, of course, but it's also done a lot for me more recently. The books chased away my long-term depression when I went back to reread them. KA slipped a staggering amount of really strong wisdom into the books, and this has impacted the way I live my life. Like in book 30, Tobias says "You're a jerk, Marco." Marco goes, "Yeah, I love you, too." That's become my standard response now when people heckle me, and that's how I was able to become friends with the guy who's now my closest friend.

[Nateosaurus]

Animorphs definately made me read a lot more.

I still read heaps when I was a kid though, but yea I definately became a book worm after Animorphs

[Gumby]

I was like Sylaire, I read mountains of books, bu read even more after reading book 2, the Visitor.