book memories

[goom]

do you remember old you were when you started reading the series?
any particular life moments you can recall reading animorphs?

i remember the first and the last quite clearly.
it was 1998, i believe, and i was sitting in church trying to sneak a peak at the new book i'd just bought.
read it like 16 times

the last book i read while i was in the hospital (after a big seizure).
[spoiler]i remember the ending made me cry [/spoiler]

[Slushie Man]

I started reading them around Book 3 or 4 I think, back in 1997 or 1998, whichever year they started in, and me and my best friend Ryan were the only two that really read them, that I knew, but we were always discussing the books after, and playing 'Animorphs' when we got together to play, lol. He stopped reading before I did though, cause he got tired of how every book was basically the same, and it was around that point I started reading each new book in under a day.

Oh, and I also remember I dropped the first Tobias book, book 3, in the bath water when I was reading it in the bath once, and Book 4, the Cassie dolphin one, the front cover ripped the space between the top of the dolphin head and the top of the book cover.

And there was this cheapo Pac-Man kind of Animorphs game I played - I think it was free to download, but it may have came from a cereal box I can't quite remember. And anyway, it was a Pac-Man kind of screen, but with various obstacles, and you had to go around collecting things, while trying to avoid Chapman and other controllers, and once you had a certain amount of power ups, you could morph to a tiger for a limited time and chase them. Something like that.

Oh, and when my sister was in college, which was around that same time that Animorphs was big and I was huge into it, the guy that played Tobias on the TV show, she dated his best friend.

[goom]

haha, awesome.
i've gotten a lot of my animorphs pages wet, and a few i purchased (some secondhand) were torn a bit.

i remember getting 'know the secret' for the pc and thinking it was the best game ever.
those were the days

[AcreLorraine]

Oh my god, I loved that gameplayed it so much but I never could beat visser.  Oh well.  I picked up book 1 in 4th grade during the bookfair at my new school.  I was so hooked.  Unfortunately, I was not a rich 8 year old.  So it was a long time before I read most of the series.  I was in middle school when I saw the last books and picked them up.  It screwed me over so bad because I never got past around book 40 ish.  The ending depressed me.  But now I'm re-reading everything.  45 minutes a book so I think my time's improved.  I can't wait to get to the end again.

[Blake (xtrunkzx)]

yea. i was in the fourth grade when it came out. i picked it up in the shool library because they made you read like 4 books a month and do reports on them. every month was a different genre so I thought the covers looked cool and it had been sci-fi month. I always hated reading and never did any of my book reports until than. every since my brain's been wired as a bookworm's brain

[yunyun]

I remember reading #2 in gr 3 and asking my teacher what <this >meant

[SkyMorpher]

I never started until I was an adult and saw them at work in the kids' section of the library. But I do recall seeing a couple of the books in the store while I was in college...I'm thinking it was The Message, when they were releasing the earlier ones. The bookstore had mostly textbooks and then a really small general reading area and I think they had some kids' material in case any of the college students had kids.

I got mixed up, I thought the books were tie-ins to the TV series, I only realized later that the books came first.

Most of my books are either from secondhand stores and weeds at work.

[Blazing Angel]

I remember reading that one where Tobias morphs a rabbit and being really confused, cause that was my first book.

[AllyVP]

I started reading them in 7th grade, in 2003.  Kinda late.  They were all published.  I was kinda anti-social, and spent every lunch period reading, but I'd read Harry Potter too many times already.  Stumbled on them in my school library, but they didn't have them all.  They had most of the first 25 or so books, and the last 2 or 3.  They didn't have any of the MM or Chronicles.  Needless to say, I was a bit confused reading those last ones, but I stuck with it anyway.  I absolutely had to know how it ended. 

Re-read them all, in order last year and remembered why I loved them.  Also spotted a lot of stuff that was totally over a 12 year old's head, and I was shocked with how adult they were for kid's books.  But we all know that already

[Shenmue654]

Okay, so you know the back summary of the first Animorphs book?

Well, even to eight-year old me it sounded a lot like a movie trailer. So for years that's exactly how I pictured it, timed bizarrely to a cartoon I liked at the time: "The New Adventures of Johnny Quest." You know, that weird-as-hell 90's version with a virtual reality program? That was totally one of my "Watching this while waiting for another show" shows. I heard pieces of the opening as the trailer's background music. The first part of the trailer is lost to memory, but I like to pretend it involved Jet Force Gemini (an obscure game I liked). Timeline-wise, it couldn't have. T__T

I initially got the series from the Book Fair one year: the first three or five books, specifically. Though I had actually seen the first almost half a year earlier, in a random classroom. What kind of awesome teacher had Animorphs as part of the reading options? o__o From that point on, I was hooked.

Also, as a kid I had an imaginary Yeerk named Keshin. Yep, he is that freaking old as a character.

[SkyMorpher]

I often wonder if I'm the only one that actual started reading them as an adult lol

[goom]

I often wonder if I'm the only one that actual started reading them as an adult lol

i'm sure there are plenty. also, many of RAFians have persuaded their (older) friends to give them a read. terenia got brian to read them.

[AllyVP]

I often wonder if I'm the only one that actual started reading them as an adult lol

I convinced my friend to read them.  i hope she finishes, i get the feeling she's not exactly entranced with them.

[Blazing Angel]

I'm proud to say I've convinced a ten year old to read animorphs and so far he loves it.

[AllyVP]

I'm proud to say I've convinced a ten year old to read animorphs and so far he loves it.

There is hope for the next generation!! Now, if we could just convince them that Hannah Montana is not a good role model......