Lady Serpent
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« on: November 15, 2008, 12:30:44 PM » |
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When you were young, did you always lean towards books that had animal characters? It's curious to wonder if people read animal-related books because they're in the fandom, or if they naturally leaned that way even before they knew what furry was.
Mabye some of the animal-oriented books are even what got you into the fandom in the first place? (At least, in part..)
I know I read Animorphs like there was no tomorrow (People morphing into animals), and also got pretty heavy into the Redwall series. The Silverwing Saga, too, as well as a story about mice called 'Poppy' a long time ago.
So, I think for me, the attraction was always there, and the books I read were just a consequence of the fact that I was obsessed with animals anyways.
What about you?
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 01:32:12 PM » |
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Well, for myself I'd have to say "maybe". I was (and still am) addicted to sci-fi, and animal characters are rare there. But when my reading material did happen to overlap with animals, the top of my skull would tend to pop off, and I never really understood why.
Interesting note about the "Poppy" books, I'm a sort of informal "uncle" to a friend's daughter snd that's the first book she every picked out for herself. Some things are universal I guess.
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I did not choose the feral wolf, it is a vision from my past, of running and bounding freedom. Somehow the anthro never fit me.
When the Wolf came to me, I was afraid. Now he is part of me, and I am finally complete. When he surfaces, I growl and snarl and share his strength and purpose.
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 06:56:18 PM » |
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I never had early book preferences. I read what I could get my hands on.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 10:46:27 PM » |
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Now that I think about it, we had a pretty sizable collection of Bernstein Bears stories....
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2008, 12:42:57 AM » |
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I'm too old to have been able to get my hands on things like Animorphs when I was still young enough that I could properly appreciate them, and besides, I was reading adult books by the time I was about seven.
As for kid's books with anthro animals, I loved (and still have) a big selection of Richard Scarry books from the early seventies, I have a 1971 edition of The Secret of NIMH, and a bunch of other stuff, too.
However, the one, turning point for me was when I read 'A Passion in the Desert' by Honoré De Balzac when I was ten. After that, I moved away from cutesy, anthro stuff and into real-life wildlife and adventure books.
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2008, 07:48:52 PM » |
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You people all stole the suggestions I would have made. Animorphs, Richard Scarry, Berenstein Bears.
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