Brain function stopped at 3am, it is now 5:13am...

[gargoylekitty]

http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/
Holy fuck, Animorphs. It was the first series that I really, actively collected in books. I remember the first one I ever read was the one with Jake turning into a fly on the cover, it was a yellow cover. There I was minding my own damn bussiness and next thing I know I see this title and my elementary school self goes 'oh, that's awesome' and before I knew what hit me I was hooked. If I wanted to talk fandom I'd say that Gargoyles was probably my first ever and Animorphs was my second. I was into other things too, of course, but those were the ones I really got into.

So yeah, I was hooked. This was when we lived in CT and before the bulk of the series was out yet so I pretty much actively collected each book as it came out for quite sometime(I think they came out every other month or something like that). I remember being on a family vacation in Nebraska(grandfather lived there) and dragging my mother around the tiny town in search of the newest book. I remember being the only kid in my class in CT who could name all the characters winning me a small prize in library trivia. I remember this kid when I moved to VA who I was competive with in who would get the new book first, I always thought he kind of looked like Jake. I remember slightly slashing Rachel/Cassie and Marco/Jake before I really knew wtf slash was. I remember being excited about the TV series and then being sad that it lacked the epicness it could have been.

Alas the author got a bit lazy toward the end and I stopped when the reading got really unbearable(right after they met the girl andalite), you could tell Applegate didn't seem to care about the series anymore. It's okay though as I hear the ending sucked and Rachel died, so fuck that...

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[sykoryoko.livejournal.com]

Animorphs was my first fandom ever. I loved those fucking books.

THE ENDING SUCKED, RACHEL DIED. Guess who ended up living? >c

I loved the series, but KA decided to move on to other things and give Animorphs fans the shaft. :c

[silverdragon729.livejournal.com]

My 3rd grade teacher had the first book, and I read it because I wanted to know why a boy was morphing into a lizard. Then, I gave the books out as party favors at my next birthday party. Every year at my birthday, I would start a new reading trend depending on what book I gave out for party favors. The year before, it had been the Bailey School Kids, and by the following school day, everyone had bought at least one more.

Anyway, I quit reading after the Yeerks got Jake's parents and everyone was forced to leave to live with the Hork-Bajir. However, I think I lost interest after David and the Ellimist and Hork-Bajir Chronicles.

By the way, K.A. Applegate did lose interest for her writing. She only wrote 4 of the books after 24. Each book was ghost written by a different person.

[gargoylekitty.livejournal.com]

Lol, that's great.

Yeah, I'd heard about that though didn't know how many where written by others. I suppose I don't blame her, although I'd never personally put my name on something someone else had written(even with a dedication to them). I think I only really got as far as I did out of a feeling of obligation to finish it and even then it just got to be too much.

[silverdragon729.livejournal.com]

To me it's about how she seems lazy. It's not like those books were really long or involved or anything. She just wanted to deal with her other two series (both of which I've written, and don't have great things to say). If you make a shitton of money off of something and don't want to finish it, then finish it poorly sooner. She owed the fans, and she fucked us all over. As someone who wants to be an author, that just pisses me off.

I read the last book, by the way. Rachel was my favorite character, and the fact that she killed her off needlessly, and then left an ambiguous ending anyway is just obnoxious.

[gargoylekitty.livejournal.com]

I certainly won't argue that it's laziness and screwing over the fans. I guess I just lost faith/interest in it long enough ago that I can look at it fondly in the past tense and be pissed over the end though not much care beyond that.

Though Rachel was definitely my favorite as well since she was badass and used to do gymnastics like I was at the time I started reading them so hearing about what happened with her... RAGE. >:(

[tomecko.livejournal.com]

Gargoyles frikkin' rocked! I only read a couple of the Animorphs books, but I always loved looking at the covers.