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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2009, 01:54:22 PM »
I didn't read them when they first came out, as they weren't released here straight away, and the first book I read was book 5. Having said that, I'm sure that if I had read book 1 in 1996, I would have found it just as awesome as ever.  8)
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2009, 03:17:36 PM »
I actually remember what i thought when i first saw the book i thought it was cool and i wanted to read it
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2009, 03:45:35 PM »
I remember reading the Invasion when I was in the 4th grade, my teacher had it available in a big shelf for anyone to read. It actually was 1996 when that happened :D

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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2009, 05:04:11 PM »
I actually remember what i thought when i first saw the book i thought it was cool and i wanted to read it

I feel embarrassed to admit that I thought it looked boring the first time I saw the first book at Target...Can you ever forgive me?!
Then again, I didn't much like reading at the time, either, so maybe that had something to do with it...
But then I read the second book and was hooked immediately.
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2009, 05:06:11 PM »
I got into them when #3 had come out, and it was the summer before I went into seventh grade.  It was sometime around August and it was blazing hot and my mom and I went to Barnes and Noble so I could look for some Choose Your Own Adventure books (totally addicted to those back then XD).  Near the C's in the kid's section I saw the first three Animorphs and thought...turning into animals plus aliens...I shall use my allowance to buy all three!  

I remember walking out into my living room after I'd finished the first one and I said, "oh my crap, this series is awesome."  The beginning of the end, right there XD


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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2009, 06:28:58 PM »
i didn't get to start reading them until about book 5/10 or something like that.
loved them though. read them all in order, minus the chronicles (which i read at weird times)

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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2009, 06:46:53 PM »
I remember they used to have these commercials for the books that had kids turning into animals i thought that was awesome and i thought that there would be a tv show about it
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #22 on: January 08, 2009, 07:13:32 PM »
Me in 1996, at 10 years old:


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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2009, 05:41:51 AM »
I got #1 in 1998, 7 years old. Along with #2-#5 because my father, who bought it, liked the covers. I was too young to read it seriously back then. It was my sister who went all crazy about it. Years later it was me.

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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2009, 12:17:46 PM »
Lol.
My mom actually read the series when I did.
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2009, 05:51:13 PM »
My sister had the first few Animorphs books - 1-12 - and I got more into it than she ever did.

That' pretty much how I got in to the series, my younger sister started requesting the books when we were like in Middle School and I picked them up for her since they always seemed to come in when I was at the library~  ^-^ though, my older brother was the first person to ever get in to the series when it first came out. But um, I was like four or five then, so my reading level and my maturity wasn't high enough for Animorphs lol. Buut, when I first read it, I remember thinking: UUUGGGHHH, SCI-FI, BOOOORRRIIINNGGG. Pretty much same way when I first heard of the series too.

Though I fell in love with the series later when I got bored at home and picked up one of the books my sister was so obsessed with. xP I read # 14 first and actually went "wowzers, a main character WHO'S BLACK? NO WAY", aaand, that's all I remember. I think I kept going from fourteen for a while and then went back and read 1-13 and was all "Ohhhhhh! Now it makes sense!" XD
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Re: May 17, 1996
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2009, 05:55:10 PM »
Lol.
My mom actually read the series when I did.

i gave mine to my dad to read (after i was done), but he didn't get past 10.