The Barnes and Noble had a big display of all the books and I picked one up scanned it and put it back cause I already had too many other books. That night I saw and ad ( this was last summer) for the Dresden Files show coming in Jan. I said "ooh, now I gotta get those books". and went out and bought them all the next day and read them in a week. I am currently on my 3rd time of reading them all the way through with my wife right behind me.