Reply #50: Okay....here's the thing.

[reyd reid reed]

I've read them all. And I've watched all the movies. Hell, we've got 'em on DVD and we've got all the books in hardcover...BUT....

I've got five kids and when the phenomenon started, the two younger boys and maybe even my daughter weren't old enough to read them on their own. So we got them. #2 son read them and then read them again and then went back and started them a third time until I took them away -- ostensibly to see what the fuss was all about. I finally did, in a fit of desperation, read the first two. Then the younger kids wanted to know what their brother thought was so cool about them, so I read them aloud.

Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Every. Fucking. "Incredulously"

And the movies put me to sleep.

:shrug: