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How did you get into Animorphs?
« on: July 26, 2008, 04:58:58 PM »
It was May 1997.

I was in the fifth grade, ten year-old old going on eleven. A Scholastic book fair was being held in the school's gymnasium.

Looking for something to purchase, I saw Animorphs books for sale on this one table. The covers really caught my eye and I was already intrigued after watching commercials and seeing posters for the series that launched a year ago.

I bought The Invasion, The Encounter, The Capture and The Stranger. I was hooked and checked out every other book the Animorphs universe from the local library ever since.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2008, 05:08:52 PM »
Book sale at public library, got #3, #4, #5. Tried reading them, got bored and confused. stopped. two years later, got book 1. I understood, and it was interesting. went back and read the other animorphs books I had. then went to library to read more books.

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2008, 05:09:07 PM »
Hmm...interesting. The parallels are spooky!

It was ALSO 1997 and I was also in fifth grade ten or eleven years old (I forget if this happened before or after my birthday). My teacher had a big bookshelf in the back of the room and I was looking for something good to read. I noticed #5 The Predator, but then realized it was the fifth in the series. When I asked my teacher she said she had the first one but another student, Nick, was reading it. I went and asked him if I could read it and he refused, saying I could have it when he finished. I was very angry (because obviously my reading the book is more important than him finishing the book) and stomped off to read #5. I was utterly confused, but I loved the idea of turning into animals (animal lover). I finished MUCH faster than Nick, who was not much of a reader, and bugged him constantly until he gave me #1 to read and never spoke to me again.

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2008, 05:13:19 PM »
Lol, Terenia. Good story. ;D

At my old elementary school, we had to go to the school library every week, pick out a book, and take a test on it Friday. I was bored and couldn't find anything to read, so at the last minute, I grabbed The Visitor off the shelf and checked it out. I didn't like it. I was horribly confused, so I just skimmed it. Failed the test. A year later, I saw The Encounter and read it. It was a little more interesting and understandable, but I was still confused. Then I read The Capture and really enjoyed it. Then, finally, FINALLy one day, I found The Invasion sitting on the shelf and checked it out. Ever since, I've been an obsessive Animorphs addict.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2008, 05:15:21 PM »
I wonder if there's any fan out there who first read an animorphs book that wasn't book 1, and wasn't confused.

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #5 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!

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2008, 05:24:15 PM »
I don't remember... (I usually forget the past)
But I guess I just bought the 1st, then the 2nd ... and read them ^_^'
I was 16, if I remember. One of my friends liked Animorphs too, but couldn't buy the books, so she tried to copy mine on her computer... by typing! ^_^' She couldn't, of course, it was too big...
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2008, 05:37:03 PM »
My brother had a number of them. Got bored one day in either 2000 or 2001, and picked up The Conspiracy. It wasn't bad, nor was it deeply confusing. I found the concept interesting; don't remember the sequence of reading, but it was nowhere near cronological.

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2008, 05:46:02 PM »
lol, I read book 5 first too!

I was... 7 years old I think, might have been 8 (I don't remember the month). First saw #5 in my school library and loved the idea of turning into animals, so I read it. Probably the first book I ever truly enjoyed reading. I  can see why people might find it a little confusing to read a book besides #1 first, but I didn't have much of a problem with it. They explain the basic background so it wasn't like I had no clue what had happened before.

Not long after reading the #5 in the library, I saw it in a shop and bought it. At the same time my brother bought #4 because he really liked Dolphins at the time. He lent me #4 (pretty sure that's the version I still have!) which I read and then started to collect the rest anytime I saw a new one in the shops. I think #8 had just come out, so I got that and soon got hold of the others from various places. After that I continued to collect them in order as they were released. Books 46-54, Visser, Megamorphs #3, Megamorphs #4 and The Ellimist Chronicles I got for Christmas one year, which had to be imported from the US because I was too impatient to wait for the rest of the series to come out over here!  ;D
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2008, 08:30:54 PM »
I wonder if there's any fan out there who first read an animorphs book that wasn't book 1, and wasn't confused.
My first book was eight, and it did confuse me a bit.

There was this small bookstore that I had never been to where I saw a few Animorphs books. I read a little bit of one, and decided to buy it. I also found a few more besides #8, and bought them. I don't remember the year or anything, but soon after reading 8 and the other few books, I saw 15. So I think I got into the series around the time 15 came out.


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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2008, 09:03:47 PM »
*recalls story once more* I was ... I think eighth grade?  Meh, who cares.  Point is, I got one of those crummy teen magazines they had back then, thinking it was *so cool* to read, and I was leafing through it (probably for pictures of Devon Sawa XD), and out fell a little 10-page packet thingy that has this really weird cover on it with a kid's face turning into a lizard.  Well...I read this teaser magazine insert for "Ani-whatever-it's-called" and it went on from there.  *bows* thank ya.  I got the first book the month it came out, wanting more, and you guys know the rest.  Been an AniFan ever since.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2008, 09:13:49 PM »
It was only like 2 years ago...end of 4th grade. My friend was reading the first one and I had remembered watching the TV show. I decided I wanted to read the first one...He lended it to me, I read it and I was hooked.
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2008, 09:16:51 PM »
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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2008, 09:27:36 PM »
I was either 10 or 11, and there was a group of kids who just got their brand new Animorphs books from a book fair/order. One nice girl insisted I take one (probably 3 or 7?). I read it, got hooked, borrowed her other ones, bought #1 and kept going :)

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Re: How did you get into Animorphs?
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2008, 09:50:22 PM »
I don't know the exact date, but I'd wager that it's around the time that book #15 came out.

I'd been seeing the books in the scholastic fliers since around book 12, and they'd caught my attention, but I didn't have enough money to buy both that and my regular goosebumps books. But a little later I saw book 2 at the school library, read it, and fell in love, and then immediately bought the next book from Scholastic, which was book 15.
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