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Post by embertuft on Dec 9, 2018 18:50:57 GMT -5
Random thought that popped in my head lmao. I found interest in warrior cats when my school library had them on a shelf in early 2017. I picked up Into The Wild, and the other Into The Wild (the one with the modern cover) and took them both home. It took me a week to realise they were the SAME book. Then I read up until The Darkest Hour (school didn’t have Rising Storm for some reason) and then I got the second series for my birthday. Bought fist book of PoT, never got full series. Got OoTS for Christmas, as well as Firestar’s Quest and Bramblestar’s Storm & Shadows of the Clans, and Cats of The Clans field guide. Pretty sure I have other books but I don’t know what happened to them.
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Post by Brindlefern on Dec 9, 2018 18:55:57 GMT -5
Bluekyokitty introduced me through speedpaints and his very old Into The Wild animation. Then later on my ex-GF got me actually participating in the fandom for a while to where I made my first OC, despite not knowing anything about the universe itself. And she designed my clan leader Autumnstar for me along with giving me my own fanclan to develop. Granted I lost interest in the franchise for some time, but I got back into it this year and while ITW was the first book I've touched on, the first book I've actually started and finished was Fire and Ice, then as soon as I finished immediately was in deep.
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Bisexual
신성하지 않은 모든 것의 어머니
なんで私
Kpop isn't a choice, it's a lifestyle
Pronouns: She/Her/Demon Mom
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Post by なんで私 on Dec 9, 2018 19:49:38 GMT -5
Back in the 2nd grade my parents got me and a friend the first book. I wasn't interested. It wasn't until the 4th grade where I saw someone reading the Sunrise in the PoT series that I actually started reading. Now here am many years later in cat hell.
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Post by kinkajou on Dec 9, 2018 20:51:02 GMT -5
Looking at bad fic reviews, I stumbled across Starkit's Prophecy. Intrigued by this monstrosity I searched for other comments or reviews on it and found a thread on the old forums. I ended up reading through a ton of topics in The Cats and fanfictions and art and it didn't take long for me to decide to read the books for myself
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Post by ✨ nissabug ✨ on Dec 9, 2018 21:22:07 GMT -5
i moved to a new state in 4th grade and sat down with the friends of a girl in one of my classes, and they were like "hey,,,,, ya like,,,, cat books?" and i was like ":O" so i grabbed the first book i found in the library which was power of three so i was like ",, who tf is brightheart and why does the book care so much lmao" so my new friends showed me the actual first book and i went from there until i got to the recent one... i think it was right before sunrise came out and then we started rping them on the playground and yeah,,,, lost interest before last hope came out, but i got back in last summer
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Post by Falconfrost on Dec 9, 2018 21:32:00 GMT -5
I don't really remember, it was in grade school... but probably either from my school library or one of my friends. I have a lot of the books so maybe my parents got me the first one cuz they found a good children's series and knew I was obsessed with liked reading? idk. Anyway, I lost interest in middle school cuz I couldn't find the next book I needed in the series at the library and I kinda figured I was getting too old to read them (how stupid I was!) I then regained interest last year thanks to this forum, became busy with school/work stuff and stopped, and then was re-immersed recently.
Just as you think you're done, they pull you right back in again...
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Post by frostflower on Dec 9, 2018 21:34:48 GMT -5
I bought Into the Wild at a bookshop. I nearly didn’t read the book - I found it a little difficult to get into at first because I found all the characters and Clans really confusing. I’m so glad I did though!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 21:43:42 GMT -5
This month will actually mark 12 years since I started reading Warriors, in 2006. I was in the eighth grade, trying to find another book for my reading log in school. I was looking in the library a bit when I noticed one book near the checkout, and that was Into The Wild, the first Warriors book. So I thought "This should get me ahead on the reading log", and after I read it, I was hooked onto it and wanted to read more.
I might not be that interested in Warriors anymore, but I still kinda remember that like it was yesterday.
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#add8e6
Name Colour
*Ravenpaw*
Warrior Fanatic
*reads books in a corner*
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Post by *Ravenpaw* on Dec 9, 2018 22:25:50 GMT -5
A friend introduced me to it when we both were in middle school. I started with Midnight, and then read the others.
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Post by Cheetahstar on Dec 9, 2018 22:35:59 GMT -5
My aunt gifted me a book my first book was firestars quest
yeah kinda spoilery
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 23:49:22 GMT -5
neopets roleplaying guilds
I'm pretty sure I joined one before even reading the books so I had no clue how the world worked. I tried making a character called cloudtail but was declined because cloudtail already existed in canon and i was like. . waht
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 0:53:44 GMT -5
My mom wanted me to do something other than play video games, and told me to go check out my school library. Found Into the Wild there and finished it within a day or two, I was hooked pretty quickly by the concept. Started reading the next warrior book I could find with the number 2 on it and was pretty baffled cause I had no idea who Stormfur was and why Fireheart was leader already. Whoops.
Didn't really spoil me enjoying the first series though I went and bought the other ones in the first series and loved it.
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Post by Fireleap on Dec 10, 2018 11:33:31 GMT -5
I loved cats and was super into reading in 3rd grade, and my school library had it so I went up and got Moonrise. I thought Into the Wild was the first book of the 2nd arc for some stupid reason and my future best friend had Midnight checked out at the time so I got Moonrise instead of Into the Wild. I had almost all the books but my dad gave them away, so now I’m rebuilding my collection.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Dec 10, 2018 12:15:35 GMT -5
I went to Waldenbooks at the mall (rip) and saw one of the new featured books at the front of the store had a cat on the cover. It was Bluestar's Prophecy. I started flipping through it, was intrigued by the map in the front with the character listings, then realized it was part of a series, so I sought out the rest of the books, figured out Into the Wild was the first one, and bought it because I liked cats and was looking for a new series to get into. It spiraled quickly from there.
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Post by Dancing_Totodile on Dec 10, 2018 12:19:04 GMT -5
Founds the books at the bookstore.
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#FF55A3
Name Colour
Apricity
Bravelands is too slept on.
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Post by Apricity on Dec 10, 2018 14:45:24 GMT -5
My sister had come home with the manga Into the Woods. I guess she thought it was like a anime manga which is why she never got into it. I borrowed it and that's where my love for the series began. For a while, I was grabbing any Warriors book I saw. First, it was Eclipse, then Dark River, then Dawn, and then a bit after doing that I started reading in order.
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Post by streamflower on Dec 10, 2018 14:53:27 GMT -5
When I was in fifth (?) grade I went to my school library because my parents thought I was too young for the health class (I was a year younger than my classmates). I found Rising Storm and decided to read it! It wasn't until I finished Darkest Hour that I realized there were three books prior to Rising Storm. Look back I was definitely pretty confused as to what was happening but I enjoyed it! I've been reading them for about 13-14 years now
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Asexual
Mayflower
I am a Daisy and Ferncloud stan first, and a human being second
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Post by Mayflower on Dec 10, 2018 15:00:22 GMT -5
I think I was...10 when I found them? I was a pretty big reader growing up, as most people here were/are, and legit every time we went to Wal-Mart -- which was frequent ;p -- I'd ask my parents or big sister for money to get a new book. This was back when the books were, like, right at the front doors to Wal-Mart (which they aren't now, at least where I live). I went through books so quick that sometimes I was way too impatient to wait until I could go back to the library, which was a distance away, and check out a bunch more, so I'd want a few to tide me over until the next time we went to the library about every 2 weeks or so. I discovered Into the Wild during one of these times, and found it interesting, since I liked fantasy books such as Harry Potter and Eragon. I decided that was the one I wanted to read. Funny enough, my family and I got into a minor car wreck that day, and since we were stuck there for a few hours, I began reading it. I'm pretty sure I finished the book that day. I immediately wanted to go back and see if there was more of the series. I'm trying to remember how many were out at the time, and I think Fire and Ice had just been published? It was that, or Forest of Secrets. Either way, I got what I could, and I definitely remember having to wait for Rising Storm and being pissed that no more books were out lol I first thought it was just Wal-Mart who didn't have it, but when I looked at libraries and online, I found it was an incomplete series. I had to wait for Rising Storm to be punished, then A Dangerous Path, etc. Needless to say, I was mad beyond belief that I had to wait. Back then, I was glad that Warriors was published so frequently, so I really didn't have to wait that long, but I was an impatient kid.
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Post by wolfcry32 on Dec 10, 2018 15:13:51 GMT -5
I got into it through a friend of mine back in middle school. She kept telling me to read the series- told me our school had the first two books, asking me if I read it yet, drew a (very accurate) map of where the books were in the library...
I finally gave in and read Into The Wild. And then Fire & Ice. And then borrowed the rest of the first arc from my friend because she had it. I ended up getting the entire second arc for that Christmas. I caught up with the series when Dark River came out, drifted away from it early in OotS, and I’m back now.
Did I mention my friend lost interest after reading the first arc...?
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Post by CinderpeltFan on Dec 11, 2018 8:47:41 GMT -5
My cousin got TNP box set for christmas one year. I read like the first 2 pages of Midnight and got hooked. The moment I got home I ordered TPB on Amazon.
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Post by VIXENCLAW on Dec 11, 2018 16:12:08 GMT -5
I first heard of it when I was 7 or 8 when a girl in my nature class kept saying. "I'm reading some book about warrior cats!" and I remember thinking "wtf is that just like a bunch of cats in armor with spears???" I never looked into it.
And then when I was 9 my mom announced she was requesting a book series called Warriors from the library because she heard it was really good, and I was like "oohhh so thats what the girl was talking about."
So my mom got Into the Wild and Forest of Secrets out of the library, I immediately started reading ITW, I didn't read prologues back then and the first thing I saw was Rusty's dream
I hated it. It bored me to death. I didn't want to read it at all.
We then went on a 2 hour car trip and it was the only book I had with me that I didn't read, so I read it and ended up loving it. We didn't have Fire and Ice, but I remember the only place I could sneak to and read was in the bathroom. I remember sitting on the floor in there at 12:00 am sobbing over Silverstream's death. The rest of the series was great because I read most of it sitting on the couch in the middle of summer cuddling with my aunt's cat, who passed away a few years ago. I managed to convince my sister to read it even before she could actually read smoothly, so she would walk up to me and say something like "what's this word? foorspeelt?" that's what she used to call Frostpelt.
My mom has told me many, many times she regrets ever getting me into Warriors.
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