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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2008, 10:29:51 PM »
I started reading a while after the series finished, i think, maybe 2002, i was eleven. I started with #11, the one where they go back in time for the first time.
It wasnt really all that confusing, not that i remember. But i didnt get any new books for a while, cause i couldnt find them. But slowly i found more and more of them (usually in second hand book stores).
So for me it was more gradual hooking.   
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2008, 06:38:50 AM »
2000 for me..i was ten and my brother had #22 for some reason, and i read it and can't remember if I liked it or not (coz it was a confusing storyline if you don't really know what the series is about) but he obviously liked it and got The Invasion..so yeah Mum signed us up for bookclub and we used to get two a month or fortnight or something.

I loved that club, I got really into it and my brother thought I was a loser haha..
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2008, 09:50:59 AM »
I can't really remember the year, it was 2004 I think. Anyway, I was in grade 4 and bored. My teacher had bookshelf So, I looked through. I found The visitor, decided to give it a try. I finished it, thinking, OMG, This RULES! so, i read the Escape, loved it too. So, then began my Animorphs book crusade. The six library's only had ONE book, #43. So, then I hit all the local used bookstores, I then bought half the series, and the rest? I read them as Ebooks and did interlibrary loans to get the rest.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2008, 12:07:04 PM »
It was a dark and stormy night.   ::)  Nah, it was the middle of summer, 1996, and I was 12...looking for Choose Your Own Adventures books in Barnes and Noble, and I happened to see the first three Animorphs books.  Thought they looked cool.  On a whim I bought all three, and I remember finishing the Invasion and going...holy crap...I am teh hooked for lifes...yep.  Beginning of the end, right there.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2008, 04:45:51 PM »
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books.

I'm hoping to one day make a live action or animated half-hour children's program for Saturday mornings where there's an adventure and the scnarios are already filmed or drawn. The next direction is chosen by viewers on-line.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2008, 08:46:30 PM »
I think I was about...seven when I read my first Animorphs book. Which makes it around '97, maybe end of '96.
I was never much of a reader back then. I found it boring. Though I would sometimes see "The Invasion" sitting on a bookself at Target. Never touched it.
Then one day I was at the library with my father. I was browsing when he walks up with this book with a girl turning into a cat on the cover ("The Visitor"). Deciding to give it a try, I read it from cover to cover and was hooked immedietly. I bought what I could, read from the library what I could, and finally caught up to KAA somewhere in the twenties (the twenties being the number of books, not my twenties. I'm still only 18 here! ;) ). I did have to do a little filling in the blanks, since I read what I could find, but it only really mattered when I read things like book 7 before book 4 or book 29 before book 14. But everything else I picked up fairly easily.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2008, 10:25:00 AM »
Saw them in a Scholastic magazine at school late grade school and like "That looks interesting". So I had my mom order them and I was instantly hooked. Scraped together the $5 every month for the next book and dragged my mother to the bookstore the day they came out.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2008, 03:53:03 PM »
Quote from: Terenia on July 26, 2008, 05:20:29 PM
I'm not sure that's possible, lol.

Imagine if someones first book was something like Visser or The Ellimist Chronicles. O_O That would be SO confusing!

My first book was number 14.  It was from my grandma, and she chose it because I'm horse-mad and it had a horse on the cover.  I was a little confused, but I was still hooked.  My next one was number 16, then number 2.  Number 1 came quite late for me!
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #23 on: July 31, 2008, 04:51:36 PM »
I too read the books in non-chronological order up until the mid twenties.  Sure it was a bit confusing but somehow it all made sense back then (as though I just filled in the pieces as I read them).  I'm still not sure how I was able to manage that to this day.

I originally just picked them based on the cover art (when I was ten or so). 

Once I finally caught up I began buying them in order as they came out.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #24 on: July 31, 2008, 08:55:14 PM »
Book 6 at my school library.  Was in 5th grade I think and I saw it on the rack.  A kid turning into a fly, looked cool enough for me and I had to check out a book to meet my reading requirement.  Read through it and from that moment on, Jake was like my role model.  A week after finishing the book I bought every single book at Barnes & Nobles (big book store chain for those who don't have it).  I think there were maybe 7 or 8 books out at the time and I kept buying and reading them all the way to 28.  At the end when I found out there was no point to the book I just stopped.  Picked them up again when I stumbled across this website while searching for the old Animorphs TV show.  I was curious at how long that went on.  Found this place with you all and got all the books.  School got busy so I didn't have time until summer rolled around, and thats when I went on a binge.  Two hours a book on average, reading non-stop for a week. 

Afterwards I got on here and well, ya'll know the rest  :)


Edit: On a side note, I must have read the whole David saga like 20 times.  I just loved how messed up it was, the drama or thinking Tobias was dead and Jake was about to die, had to be the longest month of my life waiting to find out what happened.  Different now since even for first timers, you know the books go on until the 50's but back then, you all know how it is!
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How did you got into animrophs?
« Reply #25 on: December 08, 2011, 07:40:57 PM »
Hi, I ran through all the forum and couldn find anything like this, so I post it. The title says it all. How did you get into animorphs? Schoolastic book fair? Teacher? Birthday present? Share your stories!!!
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Re: How did you got into animrophs?
« Reply #26 on: December 08, 2011, 08:17:27 PM »
I remember that in gr 3 I got bored with nothing to read so I took animorphs #2. Them I really liked it, and in grade 5, I saw the books again and started reading them again, so now I'm crazy about it  ^_^

(also, I do remember replying to something like this)
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Re: How did you got into animrophs?
« Reply #27 on: December 08, 2011, 11:29:43 PM »
There is a thread like this somewhere...anyone out there able to find it?
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Re: How did you got into animrophs?
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2011, 01:56:11 AM »

Well, why not post it here, because face it, that thread's over 120 days old. Probably WAAAAAY older.
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Re: How did you got into animrophs?
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