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Deeply Affected
« on: May 31, 2008, 11:37:23 PM »
animorphs was my childhood, the characters mean so much to me.

its a big freakin deal to me, and i can get way more worked up over animorphs then any political issue these days.

am i the only one.

im assuming im not, :p so tell me why it affected you

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Re: Deeply Affected
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2008, 01:58:25 AM »
well it doesn't work me up more than politics, but it has been an important part of my life for a long time now.

Animorphs really broadened my horizons. It was imaginative in was I could never conceive. The characters were realistic, tragic, and existed in some much depth that for so long it was hard to believe that it was made up. Back then it was a way to an infinite realm of endless possibility. Now it's a foundation for my ideals.
Ever since I started I would day dream about it: about joining the team, mixing it with other stories, creating my own plots with it, and though it's too a lesser extent, I still do those thing now. And I know for a fact I would not be the same person I am now without these books. Some manners, beliefs and standards all come straight for the books.
There are two things in particular it did to me that have maintained and actually become stronger over the years.
There is a quote that I'm to lazy to pull up and cite, but I'm sure it's familiar to you all: somewhere along the lines of "A warrior must be a scientist and an artist"
I judge people. I do. People I like and people I don't. And myself. And more and more my judging is based on that one line. The value I place on a person stems from how they think, how they can endure, how they can perceive life.  Unfortunately more and more fewer people meet that ideal. But I still look for it. And I push it upon myself too. I try and live by that creed, too make myself and see others become more, the ideal warrior, something of only older stories and legends far before the Animorphs, but something I want to see restored
And the other thing, well, for a while Jara Hamee's line "free or dead" stood out to me. Not so much anymore, I've no interest in dying. But the alternative, too live a life of misery and whoa, too exist in agony and despair and the array of all other emotions both good and bad, it gives rise to that last thing. Even in the darkest hour, your dying moment, when you have no chance and nothing left to gain or lose, theres always hope. Always for something, something great, something new, or just something different, I'll take that for these books above all other things. It gave me ideas and dreams and entertain that will last a life time, but so much more is that it taught me, no matter what, hope.









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Re: Deeply Affected
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2008, 04:05:24 AM »
Animorphs is what got me into reading!

It also helped me learn a lot of things..

I've explained the plot of animorphs to my family like hundreds of times, most of the time they forget what something is, so I launch into a huge conversation about it. My parents met some guy when we were on holiday, so I explained every little thing about animorphs to him, I was about 9-10 at the time.
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Re: Deeply Affected
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2008, 06:48:13 AM »
Man, it really has affected me. Not only did it bring me to books, but it was a real eye-opener..

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Re: Deeply Affected
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2008, 01:18:45 PM »
I really just started Animorphs recently (Like 2 years ago), but it was most likely the first book series to really make me think about things.
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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2008, 01:34:40 PM »
yea animorphs def made me a much bigger reader and I think they were really informative about animals, got me lovin them. I'm a big outdoors person because of them. And they've prob shaped me in millions of other ways, tough to say

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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2008, 05:22:53 PM »
Animorphs is definately what got me into reading. And one of the reasons I'd be super tired in the morning...
I can still remember the words and what they meant.
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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2008, 08:06:51 PM »
I can't say that Animorphs made me read...I've always read.

But Animorphs is the first book that I've willingly dove deeper than plot and characters. If I could write an English paper on Animorphs, I would in a heartbeat.

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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2008, 09:04:22 PM »
Animorphs and Goosebumps pretty much made up my childhood
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2008, 07:56:15 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2008, 09:02:57 PM »
I would say that Animorphs deeply affected me, as I'm still obsessed 12 years later. In all seriousness, Animorphs made it 'cool' to be a grade-level reader when reading wasn't fundamental. Unlike most people, I wasn't drawn to the animal aspect as much as I was drawn to the sci-fi parts of the series. It (the sci-fi aspects) took me out of my world and transported me to a different place, the writing was so vivid and real. Very few books have been able to do that since then, so major kudos to K.A. for that.
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Re: Deeply Affected
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2008, 01:24:41 PM »
i enjoyed the series to say the least, but no other novel or series has stuck with me so much.

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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2008, 01:39:36 PM »
Yeah same here. I was a bit obsessed with Harry Potter but nothing like my obsession with Animorphs lol
I can still remember the words and what they meant.
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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2008, 02:12:19 PM »
i was obsessed with harry potter like crazy but i dont think it left as much of a lasting expression...prob due to the ending, and cause i was younger when i read animorphs

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« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2008, 02:59:17 PM »
Animorphs ending > Harry Potter ending

Animorphs definately had a lasting impression on me that no other book series or book did. The first book series I read that dealt with darker subjects like war. 
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