This is just one of those series that whenever I'm in a reading slump or just struggling to find anything I can always go back to. I need to really just do a solid read-through of the series all the way through. It's such a long series and there are still books that come out twice a year. I really want to get to the newer books and see if the format gets any better or stays the same. Now are these older books, great books? No, they are outdated and didn't really age well. But to me, it's the memories I have wrapped up in the series that make it one that I continue to go back to and pick up all the time.