This was asked in '08 but I wanted to bring it back.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

So julygreen asked this in 2008, but I wanted to bring it back because of the re-release. :)

How did you get into Animorphs, and what is your personal history as a fan of the series?

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tl;dr

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

My best friend in fourth grade suggested it. I hated reading but I loved aliens (my friends and I pretended to be aliens during recess!) so she thought it would get me into reading. I borrowed a lot of the books from her because it was already on book like 18 but I caught up pretty quickly. Funnily enough, I owned book 1 because my brother read it but got scared and another friend of mine had book 2 but was like "IDK it's about aliens taking over your body" and I wasn't too into that synopsis.

I stopped getting then at 47. I remember because There was a snipit of 48 in the back that said David was coming back and I was like "...What? DNW." And I just kind of lost interest. Then, in 8th grade, I saw the final book at the bookstore so I bought it. I read the whole thing but was confused so I went back and bought all the ones I missed.

As of now, I won every book except Alternamorphs 1 and Megamorphs 2. Also, my copy of 9 is missing a few chapters that were replaced with chapters from 12. I got into the fandom in 2004.

Re: tl;dr

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

How is your copy of 9 including chapters from 12?

But yay for friends reading and suggesting and loving! That is the best form of how to get a book out there (seriously!).

LMAO to comment on my own post.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

I got the second one from my grandma because she got it for $1 back in 1998. The cover had a cat (my favorite animal) and the main character was named Rachel (my name). She had no idea what she was getting me into XD.

(Also I'm still surprised someone was selling it for a dollar back in 1998, just when the series began!)

I stopped reading in the '30s, read only the Rachel books of the 40's, and joined fandom in 1999. I read Morphz daily, wrote my own fan fiction (its kind of still on our 1997 Gateway lol! unfinished!), and was really pleased when my guy friend at the time was into them. I read the last book in a Barnes and Noble's store and cried.

I threw all of my books out in 2002/2003 when I was being overly melodramatic and 13. I threw out (well...my mom did) my Megamorphs #4 (favourite cover!!! EVAR.) last summer. It was a sad day.

Re: LMAO to comment on my own post.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading in the '30s, read only the Rachel books of the 40's, and joined fandom in 1999. I read Morphz daily, wrote my own fan fiction (its kind of still on our 1997 Gateway lol! unfinished!), and was really pleased when my guy friend at the time was into them. I read the last book in a Barnes and Noble's store and cried.

That is insanely close to most of my experience D:

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

I was in middle school and my best guy friend since like first grade started buying them- since my mother hates any fiction/non "reality" based things I would either a) speed read them at his house while he was playing some video game/etc or b) sneak them home because I was a bad, bad daughter lol. Totally crushed on Tobias since his cover model for book three SHAME ON ME THIS IS NOT A VALID REASON TO LIKE A CHARACTER IN A BOOK SERIES.

Animorphs books were the first thing I routinely bought with my hard earned babysitting money back in the day. :) When I went away to college freshmen year and one of my brother's took over my room, all of my books disappeared! *mourns* Also, I got a tad sick of Cassie and Ax's storylines past the mid point in the series, so there's book plots I only know about thanks to the rereads in this comm. THANKS YOU GUYS :D

TRUE FACT: I fell back into the fandom a while (two years?) ago and was seduced into having a livejournal because of this community. ♥ (RL has taken over my fandom time, but I'm trying to get back into ficcing in between work and other work.)

Watching Buffy for the *first* time?! My dear, you have been so deprived!!!

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

my friends and i printed out a picture of the book 3 tobias and like wrote hearts all over it.

[caterfree10.livejournal.com]

I got into the series when I read book 3 from my school library in 3rd grade and later signed up for this monthly book club thing (Animorphs Alliance, it was called, iirc) that Scholastic had where you paid something like $10-15 a month and got three Animorphs books plus a little newsletter type thing each month and you got all these awesome extra things in the first package (bookmarks, a poster, zipper charms, and a few other things I can't remember at the moment - it's been 10 years, sue me x3). Through that book club, I got all the books up to 39 plus the first three Megamorph books, Alternamorphs 1, the behind the scenes book for the TV show, and the Andalite Chronicles (I can't remember if I got the Hork-Bajir Chronicles through the clib or on my own though :V). I honestly don't know if the reason I never got anymore throguh the book was because of my parents tightening money or if it was because I'd caught up to all the available books at the time. All I knew was I'd eventually get 41, 42, and the Ellimist Chronicles later on in Middle/High school and would buy 54 in college, so yeah.

Wow, I rambled more than I thought I did, lol. ^^;

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Um, why did I never know about this book club? It would've saved my parents so much money. lol!

And hey, rambling about Animorphs = never a bad thing. ^=.=^

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I was at my cousin's house one summer day when I was eleven, I noticed he had #14 The Unknown, and was like, I must read this buuuuuk! So I asked him if I could borrow it and never gave it back. ^___^

Having a new Animorphs book to look forward to was usually the only bright spot in my month. :/ I was bullied pretty ruthlessly in jr. high and part of high school. I also wrote embarrassingly large amounts of terrible, self indulgent fanfiction, lol, that will never see the light of day. ~_^

And then I moved on to other fandoms, and other places. Two years ago I had to back in with the 'rents while I got back on my feet after getting laid off, and I still had all the Animorphs books, and out of boredom and nostalgia, decided to reread them and totally fell in love with them again! And even started writing fic again (still self indulgent but hopefully not as eye stabbingly bad as the stuff I wrote when I was thirteen, lol.)

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Um, totally hear you on the self-indulgent fan fiction from forever ago. Or well mine were at least "lets give them regular teen problems but lets give them every teen problem possible" lol. I had a vivid imagination, and I think its because I had a very sheltered/happy life (no drama except for the parents).

And hey if you ever want to post fic again, we're always welcome to it. :-)

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I believe (though I could be wrong, and I'm too lazy to look up the release date) that I was 9. I found #9 - The Secret and had my dad buy it for me.

Needless to say, I fell in love. I started getting the books every month from the Scholastic Book Club (and scored box sets of #1-4 and #5-8 since I'd missed those) until Scholastic was no longer fast enough and my mom took me to the bookstore once a month after I called and pestered them to find out if the new Animorphs was in yet.

I stayed with it, buying the new book every month, until the very last one. I still miss going to the store to get a new book every month...

I still regularly reread the series. I have 2 copies of about 2/3 of the books, and there's even a few with 3 or 4 copies...these came from other people getting rid of them and me hoarding them. They are, hands down, my favorite series (honestly, I love Harry Potter more, probably, but I have read these so many times and have spent even more of my life with them).

I was active on some of the old forums/newsletters back in the day, too, though I don't remember what name I went by then.

I just think they have to be one of the best children's series, ever. They still hold up, minus the ways things always don't hold up - technology and pop culture references. You can't say that about the Baby-Sitter's Club or Goosebumps.

Animorphs = ♥

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Another Scholastic Book Clubber. I am so jealous. Well at least the 9 year old in me is. ;-)

[lisacharly.livejournal.com]

Aww, y'all's stories are all so heartfelt and interesting. Mine's just fairly straightforward.

When we moved back to the US in 1998, I saw an Animorphs book - probably #17 - and wanted it so bad because it looked cool. I got hooked and my mother read them with me; she worked night shift, and used to drive an hour out of the way while I was in school and read the latest book in the school parking lot before I got out of school. We both read the whole series together.

Then I forgot about the series for nearly ten years, until my best friend brought them up and we decided to go read them at the library. And I was hooked yet again! They brought me a lot of joy while I was working my way through a pretty nasty breakup so yeah, go Animorphs.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

When we moved back to the US in 1998, I saw an Animorphs book - probably #17 - and wanted it so bad because it looked cool. I got hooked and my mother read them with me; she worked night shift, and used to drive an hour out of the way while I was in school and read the latest book in the school parking lot before I got out of school. We both read the whole series together.

Yes, *of course*, silly. This is all kinds of a totally not!heartfelt story. :P

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

I was into Baby-Sitter's Club. SO INTO IT. But I had read all the BSC books the library had to offer, so I asked the librarian for something I else I could read. Since I liked series, she pointed me to Animorphs.

I didn't get into them right away, and I don't remember why. But later, at a different library, I picked them up and got into them A LOT.

I only ever checked them out from the library, so I missed a few books because they didn't always have all of them, and I read them very religiously through around book thirty. This was also around the time the TV show came out, so it was a whole thing. It was great timing.

A few years back (2004, maybe?), I was at a used book store (trolling for BSC books, which I also got back into as an adult) and I saw the Animorphs books. I grabbed a couple and after I read them, I wanted more. I eventually bought the entire series off of eBay in one big lot, which was one of the better investments I've made. :D

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

BSC!! My favorite was Mary Anne :)

And yay for eBay and buying the entire series. XD

[noapologiesx.livejournal.com]

I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade. My brother got Megamorphs #2 for his birthday; it had to have been in 1998 because that's when that book was released and his birthday is in June. We both read it and loved it. My parents read it too, because at that age my parents wanted to be supportive of our reading habits while simultaneously keeping check that we were reading age appropriate material. They read everything we did.

We all really liked the book, so my mom made a trip to the book store and bought the first few books so we could start at the beginning. All four of us read every single book.

Aside from loving the content of the books and the characters, that was what kept me going, I think. Having that connection with my family and being able to talk about it like that was awesome. Every time we all finished the newest book we would sit down and talk about what happened, how we felt about it, what we thought was going to happen next, etc. It was just so awesome having all of us involved. And now my mom is just as excited about the re-releases as I am! :D

I was never really involved in fandom until recently. I think I joined LJ a couple years ago and found this comm, but I wasn't active until the rumors of a re-release started circulating. :)

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

I love that the series connects you with your family. I'm an only child and my parents more or less let me read what I want. However now when I tried to 'keep' the last of my Animorphs books (I owned Megamorphs #4 for the longest time), it was called 'stupid' and 'a stupid series, I don't know why you still have it.' I guess for me its so hard to explain exactly what Animorphs means to me...

[chiapetzukamori.livejournal.com]

All I remember is that I saw a commercial for it on tv, and then I went out and bought the 1st book. Probably from a book club that we used to get in school. After that I dragged my parents to the book store every month on the release date and read the book the very same day.
This went on until the TV series, which I was very excited for, but ultimately disappointed in. I kept reading up until the late 30's (I think that was it...) and then I got so fed up because it seemed to me that some books in a row essentially had the same plot. I went years without reading (although my attention was piqued when the last book came out - I read the last chapter of that in the bookstore).
I kept all the books that I had bought, and read some of the earlier ones once in a while until I lost them in a flood. I decided "screw it," and re-bought the whole series as a lot on ebay and read the whole thing. I still think the earlier books were much better, but I'm glad I read the whole series.

Oh man,I used to be so active in the fandom...I was a regular in the AOL chatroom "Cassie's Barn" before it was taken over by non-Animorph's fans, I was a member of an online club which I cannot for the life of me remember it's name (the creator made membership cards and one point and I printed one out for myself and kept it in my wallet for a while lol) aaaand I was a regular on a site which, again, I can't remember it's name (agh it's been so long!) Maybe it was....Ralph? Ralph's Animorphs site? I don't know lol

I should probably mention that one of my longest lasting friendships (14 years and counting!) was formed based on a mutual love of Animorphs :-D

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Cassie's Barn!!! And Ralph's Animorphs site and um...Morphz? And...and... *hugs old fandom member* Oh thank god you're still ALIVE! ;-)

And thats pretty sweet about the long-lasting friendship. XD I'm pretty jealous. All my friends who read them now (except one) are like, "Why are you still into them?"

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Unusually violent ftw! And yay everyone's Andalite!gay couple. I totally love it when authors put that stuff in and it doesn't necessarily go straight over the kid's head.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

I like how simple (and lovely) your story is. (Also your username kills me every time. Every time I read it. :))

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

I'm a lot younger than most people on this comm, so I got into it a little differently . . . but I swear, and she vehemently denies this but I swear I remember watching my mom reading them when I was really little, like three or four. I remember a boy turning into a tiger (#26) and an alien turning into a cow (#28). Two of my favorites, honestly. And then I totally forgot about them until a couple years ago when I was like ten, eleven? And I saw them in the library but this library has a really suckish selection of Animorphs and they didn't have The Invasion and I saw the #1 on The Andalite's Gift and just went . . . cool, #1. So I started with that one and totally understood nothing. Then I sort of jumped around and read every book I could find SO COMPLETELY OUT OF ORDER. The first time I even knew how many books there were in the series was when my parents dragged me to a library a ways away because my dad's band had a gig and I swear they had, like, EVERY SINGLE ANIMORPHS BOOK. This was like 2009, mind, so that's pretty amazing. But I only had time to read one book before the end of the gig (I think it was the Ellimist Chronicles) and we didn't have a card to that library so I couldn't check any of them out. D: And eventually I read all the books except #51, which I could not find for the life of me, and then last year I just kind of . . . forgot. I didn't not like them anymore, I just got distracted by other fandoms. And then a few months ago I saw this comm, joined LJ, and now I'm obsessed again. :D

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Wow you just made me feel OLLLLLLLLLLD

[stretch.livejournal.com]

Short answer? Elementary school book fairs! Scholastic always sponsored them and so the Ani books were abundant. I remember picking them up at first because the cover of #4 just looked so cool to my little third grade brain.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Yay for Scholastic book fairs. I definitely remember those. I kind of wish we still had them at college XP

(And Erin how have you been?! I'll message you... Its seeyouupside. O_o)

[perfect-ruin.livejournal.com]

I was in...grade six or seven (I had the same classroom for both years, so it gets confusing when I try and remember specifics), and I had seen the first couple around, and the covers really intrigued me.

At the time I was still reading BSC and...essentially whatever else I could get my hands on, just to read something, but it never really stuck. Animorphs was the first thing that really magnetised my interest, rather than just being there.

I was out with my mum and showed her #4 (I think it was the dolphin that finally made me snap to MUSTHAVEMUSTHAVEMUSTHAVE) and told her there were a bunch more "oh cats and dogs and stuff", she saw that it was #4 and insisted I get #1 first.

From then on, it was just part of my childhood and teenhood. It was the one constant I had from finishing primary school, to starting high school, to losing my mum, to being kicked out of home and saddled with my aunt and uncle (who, thankfully, were much better than Tobias's relatives). If I had nothing else, I had the Anis to rely on, as lame as that sounds when it's put into words.

The series is also why, as a writer, I write a series instead of a trilogy or anything short-form, because I had the experience of seeing where 50-something books can take characters, so I want the same thing. :)

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

The series is also why, as a writer, I write a series instead of a trilogy or anything short-form, because I had the experience of seeing where 50-something books can take characters, so I want the same thing. :)

Same. Except um, I just write standalone novels. Because I just want to peace out of my characters' head.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

My best friend was into them first. She tried to tell me how awesome #1 was. "Dude! He's in his locker! As a lizard!" And it was kind of funny to me, but I lost interest when she was all "Oh and they're fighting aliens." My mother did not approve of aliens so I didn't think I could get away with it.

Then I was at her house and she tried to show me an ep of the TV show that she'd taped, but her VCR was messed up and it was all blurry and all I really got out of it was that Ax talked funny as a human. She thought it was hilarous, and it probably would've been had I been able to SEE it. =/

THEN she went on a trip with me and my family (a common thing, both ways) and we went to a bookstore and she bought #2 and The Andalite Chronicles. She called me the next day and said she'd left them on accident, I went out to the van and found them under the seat and called her and told her I'd hang onto them until I saw her.

I read TAC in one sitting. I started, thinking "well, it'll be a few days before I see her, so I'll have time to finish it if I like it." Two or two and a half hours later, I was sitting there, stunned by just how powerful it was. It was the first time I'd read anything and was left going whoa--and I was already an avid reader from a young age. (I think I was like 14 at the time?) Even though I still read a lot, the books that leave me like this are few and far between.

I started buying them when I found them in used bookstores, but that was pretty rare. I kinda half-hid them from my parents--they Had Rules but trusted me. I think I finally started telling Mom kind of what they were about but left out the gory bits and I tried to convince her how amazing they were, but she never bit and read one. (So much for rocking her literary world.) By the time I moved out I had maybe ten of them? I managed to snag #54 but refused to read it until I'd read the rest, even though I was reading the rest hopelessly out of order.

Then, around March or April of 2009, I discovered bookmooch.com (http://bookmooch.com/). I built up some points quickly and was debating on what to spend them on. At the time I was working a job where I was basically alone overnight, forced to try and keep myself awake. (The hours were 8PM to 8AM, and even for insomniac me it was a challenge after 3 or 4AM--in retrospect I'm glad it didn't last long, even if the pay was awesome.) I tried longer books at first, but I soon found out that even my attention span is only so long and it was better if I took three or four shorter books, so I started catching up on my YA reading. I read several Animorphs books and a lot of Bruce Coville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Coville). And I don't remember which Ani book I read, but the light went off--THAT was what I wanted to try and do, fill out my Animorphs series!

It was mostly successful at first, I started at the beginning and mooched them in order. (Wait. No. I got Chronicles/other extra books first. Then in order.) When I got toward the end (after 45 or so) I started having a harder and harder time finding them, but I was reading them at the job as they came in (easily one every night, plus some of the aforementioned Coville), and I was desperate enough to finish the series to finally start paying for them again, even if it was almost retail price for used books. (I think I got a lot of three or four on eBay, and the rest came from Amazon.)

After the job ended (well, I was with the same company but switched to a radically different shift) and I was among the living again, my reading slowed down a bit. Then I started a job with a new company in September 2009 and got some reading time in the form of paid breaks. I don't remember exactly when I found this comm, but my intro post (http://community.livejournal.com/animorphs/530495.html) says I'd been lurking, probably for a few weeks to a month but I don't remember.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

(Comment longer than the limit FTW! It's 4300 characters in case anyone needs to know. Lol.)

And now I'm finally writing fanfiction (haven't finished/posted any yet...but soon!), which is odd--I've been writing fic since before I was in this fandom but for some reason never got into writing it. I think maybe because I knew well before I read it that the ending was very polarizing and didn't want to get mocked for not knowing the whole series, getting things wrong?

[blue_rampion]

I can't remember exactly how old I was - somewhere around eight or nine, I maybe? - but even way back then I was a pretty avid reader. I lived in the library. And one day I stumbled across #3. I'd say I was hooked then, but I was the kind of kid who'd read the rest of the series if I just remotely liked the first one I read, and I can't remember exactly when I did get hooked - but at some point it happened!

Naturally, I ended up buying the books every month. I managed to get my brother and sister reading them too, although they were never as obsessed about it as I was. I ended up stopping around about book 49, because somehow I'd gotten it into my head that 50 would be the last book, and then when I saw it in stores it did not appear to be the last book, so I was all NOOO WHEN IS THIS GOING TO EEEEND?!?!

Looking back, this feels highly ironic. Since I stopped only five books from the end.

But anyways! About...two years ago, I think? I decided I wanted to actually read the ending. I knew basically what happened, thanks to the internet, but I still wanted to read it. And so I dug out my old books, read them all, then spent ages waiting for 50-54 to come up on ebay (because getting them form Amazon would have meant getting them shipped from the US, and that is expensive). AND THEN I LAUNCHED MYSELF INTO THE FANDOM.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

#3 is clearly the best one to start with. And launching yourself into fandom is wonderful. Seriously. I love it when fans go all out and kick-ass.

[aareavis.livejournal.com]

I was still in elementary school, I believe. The teachers handed out book orders every month. In the back of one, there was this book club thing for horror/sci-fi stories. I got little booklets about vampires and werewolves and a magazine with short stories by R. L. Stine and other people. One month, the package contained a booklet with a picture of a boy turning into a lizard. I opened and read about this kid turning into a lizard and following his principal around and into a janitor's closet...

I think I probably got the full book with the next book order and have been hooked ever since. Things from back then are a little hazy. About the only things I have from my childhood are my Animorphs books and some are missing. :(

I got all of them, even the last four, which I didn't read until a week ago. The reason being, I couldn't bear the thought of the series ending. I was OBSESSED. Then, I forgot about them.

I got into Harry Potter and then decided that Animorphs were of the devil. I even wrote a short article for some fundamentalist website about how evil they were all the while reading Harry Potter. Christian Fundamentialism was my teenage rebellious phase because it was a way to piss off my liberal, party on the weekends, family... Thankfully, I grew out of it. In fact, I'm partying right now. lol

Then, last spring, I decided to do a reread. I made an introductory post and then... forgot about them again. I moved out on my own and was bored so I read the last four books for shits and gigs.

I still crush on Tobias. I used to get mad at Rachel for no supporting his choice to remain a hawk more. Tobias reminds me so much of me.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

And crushing on Tobias ftw. Though *shrug* I always was more for Tobias as a human, but...that's just the Rachel frustration in me. ;-)

And yay for book orders and teachers. I feel like they really helped out Scholastic with selling Animorphs.

[missing-nin15.livejournal.com]

I started reading Animorphs because my dad bought book #1 for me. I was in elementary school at the time (maybe 4th grade), and I loved the Goosebumps books. My dad bought it for me thinking it was a Goosebumps book because of the cover, LOL (my dad has bought a few things "accidentally" for me that I really loved, haha).

I lived in Indonesia, and they only published the book until number 20-something. Tried to buy the whole series through amazon/ebay a number of times, but never got around to it. Then about 2 years ago early in my uni years, I found out there were e-books! Finished the entire series then, and meanwhile found this comm. :)

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Thats really interesting they only pubbed certain books in other countries...or I should say 'up to.' And yay for e-books. Thank god right? :)

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

Scholastic Book Orders. :D

My mom's a kindergarten teacher, so she was all about the reading. We'd order a handful of books every month my entire elementary school stint. Animorphs came out when I was in third grade, and she was interested too. Because I read incredibly fast and always have, we sat down every night and read two chapters a night together (or more, if one was really short or it was the climax). I got to read the MMs and Chronicles on my own, though. (Binge!) We timed it so each book took a month to read, so we never had a lull. This lasted until I started high school and she went back for her Master's degree and we were both too busy.

But yeah, I was totally always on the official website at the time getting spoilers and reading the Ask KA stuff. I was in the fan club. I still have most of my stuff--I've been meaning to get it all together and take pics of Animorphs relics for the comm, but I am teh lazy. My brother and I put colored saran wrap on flashlights to make Dracon beams and ran around the house playing laser tag that way. My best friend at the time was named Michael and we argued over who(se name) KA loved more. I watched the disowned TV series and never forgave Nickelodeon for botching it. When I got a cat in fourth grade, I named her Cassi since that was the logical name for the animal best friend of a girl named Rachel. My mom named one of her future dogs Toby. Et cetera. =P

And now I reread them through the lens of a history BA and international security classes and love them more, and listen to the radio drama on road trips. Whoo!

[cleo-eurydike.livejournal.com]

And now I reread them through the lens of a history BA and international security classes and love them more,
this so happened to me <3

[cleo-eurydike.livejournal.com]

my best friend nagged me until I gave in and read The Andalite Chronicles. AND THEN I COULD NOT STOP. Plus had all sorts of problems in life and I loved that the books didn't condescend to children, they actually acknowledged that children go through shitty things and that the world can be an unkind place and how to deal with that.

I gave up in the 30s, but I read the ending and I'm trying to go back and make sure I've read everything in between. The Megamorphs book with the Dinosaurs and the Time Machine are my favorites. And, well, the David Trilogy I think was the high point of the entire series.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

David Trilogy ftw. I always see that part as something that would be amazing on screen. Idk why, but I always see David-everything as a dark, violent, bloody film.

[keyyag.livejournal.com]

I saw the first three books advertised in those Scholastic book order catalogues we used to get in primary school (when I was around 9 or 10), and thought the covers looked really cool, but for some reason I never asked my parents to buy them for me. Then I got the first three books for Christmas that year, and baby!me decided that was practically destiny. From then on my mum bought the next book for me every month. I got TAC the Christmas after and spent the entire day reading it while the rest of my extended family went outside to play cricket. I wasn't a very social child.

The first few HP books were coming out around the same time, so I lent my best friend my Animorphs books and she lent me her HP books. We were both horrified by the TV show when it came out, too. We wrote horrible fanfic together. We recorded ourselves reading #7 with proper voices. And we scoured the TV show for good quotes that we could record onto tape for interviews for our pretend radio show ("Hey, Jake, could you lend us some change?" "Change? What change?").

I kind of fell out of love after the whole Cassie goes to Australia thing, and I don't think I got any more books after that, though I still loved the series as a whole. Then sometime last year I decided to reread the entire series to see how it ended and fell in love all over again.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Someone else who got turned off by the Outback book!

*high fives*

[harumi.livejournal.com]

I was really into aliens as a kid, and when I saw the first book and read the summary I knew that it was going to be good. It was listed in the Scholastic book orders we used to get at school, so I begged my mom to buy it for me. I became hooked all through middle school, but sadly had to stop in high school, because they didn't offer book orders, and my mom found the original price (without the Scholastic book order discount) far too expensive. I'd occasionally grab a peak whenever we went to the bookstore, but it wasn't enough.

Then just last year I received my Kindle. The first thing I did was search for Animorphs, and downloaded the entire series. It was one of the few things that really helped to develop my views as a kid, and it doesn't do badly on the rereading as an adult either.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Woot, Scholastic book orders! And I definitely get the stopped-in-hs-read-in-bookstores deal.

Ooh, they have all of them on Kindle? Hmmm... Debating getting one now. How does it look compared to the physical book/text?

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Aw I'm late for this :( (I blame you work, I ended up falling asleep right when I got home :( :( :( )

Okay when I was REALLY LITTLE LIKE 7 OKAY I really really really loved horses and stuff so I would read Pony Pals. As it turns out Pony Pals where right next to Animorphs when they were being released and the covers caught my eye *coughgirlturningintocat* so then when I saw them later at a Scholastic book fair at school I just HAD to buy the one with the girl turning into a dolphin. Cuz y'know dolphins are awesome :D

I clearly remember when books 8, 21, 22 and TAC came out. I remember reading those books specifically and going "this is a really good series" lol. I also remember reading them in school and lots of of kids walking by and going "wow those covers are really creepy/scary" and I was just like :/ :/ *gives stony stare* except for TWO boys in my class who read them, but for some reason it was cool for them to read them :/ haha.

Ugh I just realized how full of emoticons this comment is. Excuse me, I just woke up.

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Just wondering are you watching Buffy the tv show with Sarah Michelle Gellar or the movie? How are you liking it?

[nostalgichild.livejournal.com]

I was 11 and picked them up at the library. I have always been a big reader and I was scanning the YA section for some new stuff. I read the summary on the back of #2 The Visitor and also the little excerpt on the inside front cover and thought "Sounds interesting and exciting. I'll try that."
The German slogan was "Animorphs - They will change you". And how right they were. Never have I read anything that has influenced me and my thinking more than Animorphs. Maybe that's embarrassing but no matter how many books I read and how much I enjoy them, Animorphs is still the one thing I come always back to.
Animorphs was always my escape. I was such a loser at school but as soon as I opened an Animorphs book I forgot about that. I was part of that exciting, dangerous, sometimes sad, sometimes funny adventure and that was all that mattered.
And maybe that's one of the reasons why they still mean so much to me. They were there when no one else was.
Oh God, that sounds cheesy, but what can I say, that's how it was.

Then they stopped translating them into German after #30 (why? oh why?). At first I was so mad but then I started to do some research because I still wanted to know how they ended. Then I decided to read some of them in English, I bought #33, #32, #37, #43, #44, #49, #52, and #54. Recently I ordered TAC but obviously there a still far too much I have not read.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Um that tagline is really awesome. And I also started with #2! *high fives*
And I definitely get the 'escape' - I used to ask the universe if there was one thing I wanted, besides the usual kid/teen stuff (parent drama to be over, a boyfriend eventually, lol), I asked them if they could give me Animorphs as my real life because, um, that would be supppper cool and make my life so much more interesting. Needless to say, am still waiting. lol. :-)