If I'd known when I started reading the first book that I would become so engrossed in this story, I might have saved them for a holiday where I would have had whole 24 hour periods with nothing to do but read. As it turned out, I had to grab 15 minutes here and there between work and classes and then stay up till 2am every night because I couldn't bare to put it down. Now I've bought the dvd I intend to stop watching only when the disc is so used that its worn down and there is no image on the screen. Ha!