Deeply Affected

[Bladeh Mercury]

It has gotten me a lot into reading, I have to say that. Before i ever read Animorphs, I really didn't like to read a lot, not a lot of books were interesting to me. (I need animals in the story to read it and to get it) 
You could probably see, if you look through my notebooks, and if you could read my small writing, how much it made me want to fanfictions. Still yet to continue my first one, though.

[Terenia]

I was always a reader, but Animorphs completely changed my world.

I'm the type of person who is always trying to escape reality in one way or another (I'm like Tobias in that sense...) and Animorphs remains the only book series that allowed me to get so profoundly lost in its story that I questioned my own reality. I remember when I was little my family would often go on camping trips. We'd be driving along and I'd spend hours staring out the car window, hoping to catch a flash of an Andalite running by. Or save my dad from Marco's bad driving.

Like almost every Ani reader my brothers and I would pretend we could morph, and every time I pretended a secret part of me was hoping beyond hope it would actually work. And disappointed each time it didn't.

Even now, years later, I often look up at the sky when I'm walking my dog, hoping to see a rather unusual "plane" in the sky. There's a large open field behind where I live, the perfect place for a spacecraft to crash.

If one of these days I were to find out that the Yeerks were a real species invading our planet, I don't think I would be surprised for a second.

[Mr. Guy36]

I've played out numerous scenarios in which I suddenly discover that it's real.
But yeah, Animorphs gives me lots of thought material. I never run out of daydreams now.

[Essam 293]

I used to read a lot of kids books before Animorphs (Goosebumps mostly, and several other 'scary' titles), but none of them really stuck with me, and they were pretty forgettable on the most part. Animorphs is what really got me hooked onto reading though. At the time, I thought it was the most revolutionary thing ever written, mainly because I had never read a story so realistic and fantastic at the same time. It was very relatable, and you could easily loose yourself and believe that you were living in their world with a secret invasion carrying on around you.

Years later, I'm still finding myself thinking about the series and talking about it one way or another. Heck, I've been known to spend days just looking for specific items or facts or images for my website alone. So yeah, Animorphs has deeply affected my life, and it still does to this day.

[esplin]

ive just wondered why it was one of the only things to ever do this to me, im only super passionate about a few things

[Phoenix004]

Animorphs got me into reading, animals and writing stories of my own. It's by far the longest book series I've ever read and remains to be one of my top favourites even after all these years...

But besides all that, no I wouldn't say the series has really affected me much! 

[zaprowsdower]

Hello all. Animorphs was my LIFE from 1997-2001, one of the best four years of my life . I've read some of at least every book, and in those years, ages 7-11, I poured over every book I could get my hands on. I didn't have a lot of friends then, so I got to know all of the characters as my friends. I had a similar relationship with the first three seasons of Digimon. In the times I've read them since they ended; it's like a wonderful blast to the past. Sometimes I'm amazed how much time has passed, they feel like I gotem just yesterday. Is it healthy to be nostalgic of the 90s ?

[Phoenix004]

Well I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say that half my life so far was lived during the 90s, which gives me every right to be nostalgic about it. That's my childhood you're talking about!

[zaprowsdower]

Yeah I miss the 90s too; better in some respects than this lousy decade-except for the superhero movies, back then you only had Batman and the last two were seriously screwed up by the evil JOEL SCHUMACHER .

[Terenia]

I had a wonderful blast from the past the other day.

I've owned the entire series of Animorphs since it ended (every month I would get whatever book came out, so I didn't end up with any gaps or anything), but I decided that I wanted to further my studies in Spanish. Well what better way to increase my vocabulary than read a book I already know the plot to by heart? I could spend more time reading and less with a Spanish-English dictionary in hand!

So I ordered #4 The Message (or El Mensaje) off of Ebay. When I got it in the mail it was in nearly-mint condition. For the first time since Animorphs ended I had the experience of opening a "new" Ani book, smelling that new book smell and, since it was in another language, it was almost like reading it for the first time!

Yeah, I'm crazy....

Also a few hours later my dog got her teeth on it and now it is no longer in mint condition.

[CounterInstinct]

I cried the moment Rachel died.
At least the moment I got to the part, that's how affected I got. 

[Terenia]

Yeah, I still cry when I read that part. Every time. I also still laugh out loud at a lot of scenes. Like Marco and the trash cans. Gotta love the trash cans.

[CounterInstinct]

yeah, I also love the part when Marco made his paper about the "use of rhetoric to obscure lack of meaning in writing". Oh man, that was funny...

But still, you gotta love the trash cans.... 

[sherrilina]

Man, it really has affected me. Not only did it bring me to books, but it was a real eye-opener..

War's are never pretty. There are no last climactic battles between the good and bad. In wars, there is very thin line in becoming the "Good guys" and the "Bad guys". Also, in wars, relationships get destroyed, people you love die....

Yeah, I think that was one of the most important lessons I got from Animorphs--I applaud KA for not taking the easy fairytale way out, but giving it a realistic ending, that shows that war is terrible, and can affect/harm someone's life long afterwards even if they physically remained unscathed...

And yes, to quote the facebook group, "The Animorphs Stole My Childhood....But I don't want it back!" Definitely one of my fave series of all time, I was obsessed with them, and am beginning to be again!   Hell, I even made up an Ani-related game with my friends! Definitely a big part of my childhood, god bless them!

[CounterInstinct]

"The Animorphs Stole My Childhood....But I don't want it back!"

-quoted by sherrilina

Oh man, that is some nice quotation there. Fits perfectly for us young readers of Animorphs. It fits the Animorphs themselves as well. How their childhood was taken from them by this Yeerk-Andalite war.

OT: how do you put the "Quote from" thing?