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[H.Protagonist]

I has no animals :|

Any animal will do! Just find your inner spirit animal and photoshop away!

YESSS!! Anyone remember these books as a kid?;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Animorphs_bk53.jpg[IMG]

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[IMG]http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7310/417pxanimorphsbk02uq8.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://f.cl.ly/items/3B3M3o0R461Q3G461f0T/lol.gif

Oh, god it's terrifying... LET'S DO THIS!

 

[.la1n]

I was more into Goosebumps.

I was just about to post this, you sure we aren't related?

spirit animal you say, fight club Penguin go!

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Animorphs became "popular" right around when I was transitioning between middle school and high school.

Goosebumps was my tween novel of choice.

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

I was more into Goosebumps.

Same here. Particularly those of the "choose your own adventure" variant.

 

[leadbelly]

YESSS!! Anyone remember these books as a kid?;

Holy shit. The guy must have been on acid when he did those.

 

[.la1n]

I had these too

 

[Professor Beef]

Same here. Particularly those of the "choose your own adventure" variant.

I remember those being particularly more violent than the "normal" Goosebumps books.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Any animal will do! Just find your inner spirit animal and photoshop away!

 

[Wallach]

yeah


gonna solve crimes by becoming a starfish

nothin's gonna stop me now

You think those books were about kids solving crimes? Fuck that, it was about terrified kids trying to not fucking get murdered by humans and/or parasitic aliens that enter through your ear canal. Many of those kids fail. The world is basically ending at the conclusion of that series, with a couple of the remaining protagonists committing suicide by ramming a shuttle into an alien ship to avoid being consumed by some other horrible cosmic entity.

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

I remember those being particularly more violent than the "normal" Goosebumps books.

Yeah, which may have contributed to why I gravitated more towards them. I was raised on horror films since the age of 5 after all.

 

[H.Protagonist]

Same here. Particularly those of the "choose your own adventure" variant.

Awww... I loved the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books! They were really brutal, though. You died in such horrible ways for making what seemed like normal, logical choices. I feel kind of scarred from them actually...

 

[leadbelly]

Certain shops are allowed to sell it, but not just everyone. That's the reason you can't possess more than a certain amount as an individual. If you have more than 3(?) grams, you are considered a dealer.

But yeah it is a bit of an awkward system.

Yeah. I am aware of this. I didn't really mean anyone could sell it. It is the licensed coffee shops.

I just assumed that the licensed coffee shops were only in Amsterdam. Of course, you're right, it is mainly because Amsterdam made it a tourist attraction.

And I understand actually why the law is the way it is: it is to control it.

 

[.la1n]

I feel like they were a precursor to our adult lives, even when you think you are choosing the right path it can end badly. I'm emo today

 

[Lissar]

I remember my younger cousins read Animorphs. I was a bit too old for them, I think.

That star fish one is the stuff of nightmares.


Anyone read My Teacher is an Alien and other books by Bruce Coville?

 

[Askani]

I'm older, so I didn't do the Animorphs or Goose Bumps or whatever. I had these when I was 10 or so. You guys were missing out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I had these too

ffff nostalgia trip

I used to crazy cheat when reading these books.

Book: Oh no adventure over
Me: WHATEVER I HAD MY FINGER ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE

So basically I read them like I play Bioware games.

Spoiler

And they're about as well-written.

 

[marrec]

I remember my younger cousins read Animorphs. I was a bit too old for them, I think.

That star fish one is the stuff of nightmares.


Anyone read My Teacher is an Alien and other books by Bruce Coville?

Oh mah God that's still on my bookshelf to this day.

I love the cover-art for that book.

Awww... I loved the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books! They were really brutal, though. You died in such horrible ways for making what seemed like normal, logical choices. I feel kind of scarred from them actually...

Taught a generation of kids to not choose the logical path.

I think we've traced the origin of the Hipster!

 

[The Elite]

You think those books were about kids solving crimes? Fuck that, it was about terrified kids trying to not fucking get murdered by humans and/or parasitic aliens that enter through your ear canal. Many of those kids fail. The world is basically ending at the conclusion of that series, with a couple of the remaining protagonists committing suicide by ramming a shuttle into an alien ship to avoid being consumed by some other horrible cosmic entity.

You don't get that impression from the covers at all.

 

[Lissar]

Oh mah God that's still on my bookshelf to this day.

I love the cover-art for that book.

The only one I have is Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher.

And that's because I bought on Kindle!

I really wanted to read it...

 

[Wallach]

You don't get that impression from the covers at all.

No. No you do not. The impression the cover gives is like "Hey, look at this kid who can turn into an iguana, that's pretty rad" - but it isn't rad.

 

[Davedough]

There was a series of books called Firebrats that I remember was the first series of novels I got into after A Wrinkle in Time, when I was younger. It was about a pair of teenagers who survived a nuclear (nucular) holocaust and went on a trek across country to find their parents who were in Florida. It was pretty good, at least back then it was.

I've never found that set of books again nor have I ever ran into someone else who read them. Then again, I haven't looked very hard in quite a few years.

 

[Chuckie]

Any animal will do! Just find your inner spirit animal and photoshop away!



Oh, god it's terrifying... LET'S DO THIS!

I don't have access to photoshop at the moment

Why not Beverage Friday? Or Kung-Fu Pose Sunday?

This sounds a bit more easier and better to me

 

[Count Dookkake]

You're always missing from somewhere aren't you. Don't know tbh! Either I missed you in my sweep for aviators, or.... yeah that's the only option. :lol

The weird thing is that I was in an earlier version.

I smell conspiracy!

 

[Bucket Mouse]

I often employed the patented "Use your finger as a bookmark and flick back to the better outcome" technique with those Goosebumps Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Explains my indecisive nature!

 

[marrec]

No. No you do not. The impression the cover gives is like "Hey, look at this kid who can turn into an iguana, that's pretty rad" - but it isn't rad.

There's this whole period of time when they're still learning to use their rad superpowers and at first it's TOTALLY COOL!

Until it isn't.

It gets very not cool, very quickly.

Then every novel there is a terrifying sequence where they only have 4 seconds to get to a safe spot to morph back or they morph back in mid-air or something equally horrible happens.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

I never really read any books as a kid.
The only book that blew me away was reading Hatchet in the fourth grade.

 

[H.Protagonist]

I feel like they were a precursor to our adult lives, even when you think you are choosing the right path it can end badly. I'm emo today

I confess I do sort of imagine my life as one of these books whenever I make an important decision. I suppose I should be relieved that no choices I've made have dropped me into a pit of spikes, cursed me to wander Tir Nan Og forever, or caused me to be eaten by a witch. Yet.

 

[Lissar]

There was a series of books called Firebrats that I remember was the first series of novels I got into after A Wrinkle in Time, when I was younger. It was about a pair of teenagers who survived a nuclear (nucular) holocaust and went on a trek across country to find their parents who were in Florida. It was pretty good, at least back then it was.

I've never found that set of books again nor have I ever ran into someone else who read them. Then again, I haven't looked very hard in quite a few years.

Never read them, but, these?

Talk about needlessly expensive.

 

[GameplayWhore]

I had these too

...surely that doesn't say "blown the koopa", does it?


Also, cool to see that Luigi's ghost-fighting adventures started much earlier than 2001.

 

[Askani]

...surely that doesn't say "blown the koopa", does it?


Also, cool to see that Luigi's ghost-fighting adventures started much earlier than 2001.

Flown. You perv.

 

[Count Dookkake]

...surely that doesn't say "blown the koopa", does it?


Also, cool to see that Luigi's ghost-fighting adventures started much earlier than 2001.

Flown.

It's a pun.

 

[Davedough]

Never read them, but, these?

Talk about needlessly expensive.

Yes, that would be them. They went out of print a long time ago, but it appears there's a market apparently. And LOL at those prices. I can assure you while they were good, they weren't THAT good.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I confess I do sort of imagine my life as one of these books whenever I make an important decision. I suppose I should be relieved that no choices I've made have dropped me into a pit of spikes, cursed me to wander Tir Nan Og forever, or caused me to be eaten by a witch. Yet.

Clearly you have not traveled the world enough yet.

 

[Askani]

Flown.

It's a pun.

Please. Like you know about that.

 

[Professor Beef]

Clearly you have not traveled the world enough yet.

I don't think anyone has traveled the world enough to get eaten by a witch.

 

[marrec]

Speaking of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, there was a comic book that did it recently 'Unwritten' had a choose your own adventure issue and it was FANTASTIC.

All of this talk about it makes me wish Terry Pratchett would do one.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I liked the TSR Dungeons and Dragons version of choose-your-own-adventures.

 

[Invisible Man]

Be very afraid...

 

[.la1n]

I don't think anyone has traveled the world enough to get eaten by a witch.

I have had many encounters with witches, except we tend to swap the w with a b.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I don't think anyone has traveled the world enough to get eaten by a witch.

Clearly you're not a John Proctor Truther.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Be very afraid...

http://i.imgur.com/yYDcMl.jpg[/MG][/QUOTE]
oh dear god.

 

[noah111]

I remember my younger cousins read Animorphs. I was a bit too old for them, I think.

That star fish one is the stuff of nightmares.


Anyone read My Teacher is an Alien and other books by Bruce Coville?

YES!! HAHAHA shit, that brings back memories.

 

[H.Protagonist]

Be very afraid...

Hahahahahahaha! Nightmares! Nightmares, I say!

 

[.la1n]

YES!! HAHAHA shit, that brings back memories.

The good days

 

[GameplayWhore]

Flown.

It's a pun.

I confess that I was just joking around there, but ... wow, I didn't actually see the pun until you explicitly pointed it out. I must be far, far more tired than I thought. :O

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Be very afraid...

"Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, some...don't ever want to."

 

[Zomba13]

Hahahahahahaha! Nightmares! Nightmares, I say!

Are you happy now!!!!

 

[ZeroRay]

This thread has crossed the threshold.

 

[Duderz]

Be very afraid...

 

[.la1n]