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Post by Hal on Oct 13, 2022 17:38:15 GMT -5
What was your first introduction to, or earliest memory of, the Warriors series?
For me, it happened in 2009 when I was in elementary school. The school library had a large collection of Warriors books displayed on the shelves. I loved cats then (still do!) and was always curious to read them - despite my friends warning me that they were scary and had cats fighting. But me, being the brave little child I was, picked up a random one - and was then promptly confused and stopped reading it. I didn't quite know enough about the background and lore to understand what I was reading.
However, two years later, my curiosity was renewed, and I picked up a copy of "Into the Wild" at a bookstore. This time, it was a proper introduction, and I was immediately hooked. I was a hardcore Warriors fan for most of my school years.
Once I reached high school, I lost interest in the fandom and didn't much follow what was happening. All of my books got donated when my family moved states. But as an adult - and a frequent watcher of YouTube - Warriors MAPs would be recommended to me, they and piqued my interest. I watched some and was immediately hit with a wave of nostalgia and fondness - as well as impressed by the talent of the artists involved. Soon quite a bit of my income was going towards battle cat books, and the fond memories remain with me. I'm very happy to be back in this fandom, needless to say.
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Post by SquipyCheetah on Oct 13, 2022 18:06:48 GMT -5
I don't remember exactly when or how but I do remember getting the Power of Three (I specifically remember The Sight, don't know if there were others at the time) and then getting mad at myself for realizing that that wasn't that first one. From there my mom got me the first two sets and there I went so to speak.
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Oct 13, 2022 18:24:26 GMT -5
I got my cousins' old Power of Three books as a Christmas gift in 2017 from my aunt and uncle. I had nothing to read at the time so I read the whole arc over winter break and loved it. I read the rest of the series from there.
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Oct 14, 2022 13:06:59 GMT -5
My dad got the German version of Into the Wild gifted to him by a coworker when it came out in 2008 who then asked him to give it to me since she thought I might enjoy it. Sure did and still do.
I lost interest in the series after Firestar died in OotS and fully stopped reading any Warriors content in 2015 but then came back in 2020 to make a return to my childhood comfort books and finally join the actual fandom as well.
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Post by ᴋᴀᴛɴɪꜱꜱ on Oct 14, 2022 21:08:36 GMT -5
I was in elementary school and I went to one of my friend’s birthday parties, and the cake had the cover art of the old US cover of A Dangerous Path on it. After that I started reading the series.
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Post by ivysaur on Oct 14, 2022 22:10:17 GMT -5
Can't remember the exact year but I was an early elementary student. I found the old Warriors hunting game from a Scholastic book website and I searched it on Youtube and found SSS Warrior cats. I got to the Warriors website from that and I got so excited to find that the books were sold in my country. There was only one in my local bookstore at the time and it was Long Shadows, which was a horrible book to start lmao, but I've been a fan ever since. Without access to the books though, it was mostly through roleplaying forums that got me into the series.
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Post by Jaysnow on Oct 15, 2022 4:26:09 GMT -5
My brother read the series back in the early 2000s, when it first started coming ouf. 2005-2006 is when I first read Fire and Ice before realizing that was the second book in the series.
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Post by Violet6Echoes on Oct 15, 2022 7:27:22 GMT -5
My older sister would read the books to me while we were on the bus and she eventually let me borrow each book. All those books belong to me now tho lol
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Post by houndsteeth on Oct 15, 2022 9:11:21 GMT -5
I picked up Dark River in a bookstore and despite being thrown in the deep end of the series with no context I loved it. From there I 'earned' (as with all my books before 2010) or was gifted all The New Prophecy books as well as the last book in the first arc. I actually can't remember how I read the first arc, but I'm pretty sure I read it before TNP somehow.
Sidenote I do have a very distinct memory of reading one of the books in one of my school's library and getting gently told off by an older student as I was reading in the the older kids section. I promptly told her I had the same books at home and it was fine- she left me alone after that lol. I did find it interesting though when I moved schools, the Warriors series was in the middle school section where as in my previous school it was in the high school section!
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