How much has Animorphs impacted you as a reader?

[zaprowsdower]

I still remember that #31 was the book that convinced the library to let me check out chapter books from the library in around 3rd grade.

[Azguard]

 

[AniFan]

Cloaky, my story is similar to yours. I was a very very avid reader before Animorphs. I used to check out books from my school library as if they were candy, a book practically everyday. The librarian once even took me aside and asked me if I was just playing around checking out books and returning them the next day, but it was just that I loved to read.

Anyway, some Animorphs books were in the library and I thought they looked interesting enough for me to start reading them. Not surprisingly, I got hooked right away. Before I knew it, I was in every book fair and library in town to try to find more books.

So, how it did help was that it got me interested in following up and being as dedicated as one can get to reading those books. Before I would just read the synopsis on the back and check out random books, Animorphs got me more focused on what I want to choose. It added to my collection at home which I still cherish. It also got me more interested in animals. For example, when I read Cassie's The Message, I was so intrigued in dolphins and loved to know more about them. Also, ants, I wanted to know the nature of their living and such.

So, yeah animorphs did effect me as a reader quite positively.

[Slushie Man]

Not at all, as a reader, but a tiny bit as a writer. I co-wrote a Power Rangers fan fic series awhile ago, and the intro as to how they got their powers in our series', was slightly based off the intro for Animorphs.

[Azguard]

 awesome to see how animorphs still continues to affect us. KA should read all this! 

[Champion]

i can sum it up pretty well, hugely. i hated to read. i went to a private christian school, and we read chapter books in kindergarden. All the books were dumb,like diarys and stuff. One day, in 2nd grade my mom drug me into the library and lined up all of these books for me to read. i hated all of them. so, on my own, i looked around. Eventually, i found the Invasion. and after 15 mins, i couldnt put it down. Through the rest of gradeschool, i finished the sieries. marco was always my favorite, and i basicly modled my self after him from 3-5th. its safe to say that teachers hated marco.

[Azguard]

 lol champion. i love your story. do you still contain those traits?

[Champion]

yep. and the teachers still hate me. 

[tobiasthehawk]

Animorphs provided me, A geeky kid with little social skills an escape into a place where I felt...Just enthralled with the world. Not being able to trust surface features really intrigued me. It made me who I am today.

[Azguard]

 are you still a reader?

[Bladeh Mercury]

well, I read a lot now, before, I never had any books on my bookshelf, now it's filled with all sorts of books. I've gotten better grades in english ever since I started reading them. (I recieved an a+ on something! I never get those, and it was actually loosely related to animorphs I got it on!)

[Starsword]

Animorphs are the single greatest influence in my life, I think its safe to say (except maybe my dog). Aside from them (and Goosebumps, okay) getting me into being an avid reader, helped mold me as a person. Being in college when I have to lead a group of people to do something, I ask, what would Jake do? Wow, I like that new motto, WWJD. In groups I try to look for a person that is closest to each of the Animorphs and rely on them for those attributes, because in reality, the Animorphs really weren't missing much in terms of a skilled diverse group. If a character is missing, I try to interject their view points. 

[Azguard]

 hahaha, what would Jake do. hahaha

 nice, i never thought about using it that way...

[Hylian Dan]

Animorphs are the single greatest influence in my life, I think its safe to say (except maybe my dog). Aside from them (and Goosebumps, okay) getting me into being an avid reader, helped mold me as a person. Being in college when I have to lead a group of people to do something, I ask, what would Jake do? Wow, I like that new motto, WWJD. In groups I try to look for a person that is closest to each of the Animorphs and rely on them for those attributes, because in reality, the Animorphs really weren't missing much in terms of a skilled diverse group. If a character is missing, I try to interject their view points. 

When I was being trained about leadership stuff as part of my job, all the stuff I learned/read about facilitating conversations and leading a group perfectly described the way Jake would act, the way he'd lead discussing about strategies and stuff.

[Myitt]

I read a lot before Animorphs, but Animorphs was one of the best worlds to dive into.  It made me want to write, and it made me love stories that weren't afraid to explore morality, and it taught me vocabulary.  It didn't talk down to its audience, and I thought that was really cool.  It even helped me on the AP Biology exam in high school, thanks to Visser One and the "corpus callosum"...x3  I got into Animorphs because I loved animals and science fiction, and the great story and characters were the icing.

It also made me realize I love characters that look human but really aren't, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  It's so creepy, but at the same time, the moral ambiguity of sci-fi characters like that (including vampires, angels, demons, parasites, cyborgs etc.) is very interesting from a storytelling point of view.