The books came first! The TV series ended up taking an entirely different direction and didn't last very long.
As far as reading through all the books... Each of them is about 150-200 pages (80-120 in PDF form). As a nine-year-old I could finish one in under a day, so if you found yourself digging them then I bet you could easily breeze through the entirety of the series in under a month.
I'm not sure all the books are legally available in ebook format (and of those that are, they might be the pop culture-scrubbed versions for the attempted rerelease), but there's a fan-made collection floating around that's easy to find.
If you do ever pick them up, I recommend reading to at least #22. Most books after that were ghostwritten and there are more than a few that feel like filler. You absolutely need to make it that far though because 20-22 contains a dark, excellent arc that I recall rereading many times as a teenager.
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Date: 2015-10-10 12:07 am (UTC)As far as reading through all the books... Each of them is about 150-200 pages (80-120 in PDF form). As a nine-year-old I could finish one in under a day, so if you found yourself digging them then I bet you could easily breeze through the entirety of the series in under a month.
I'm not sure all the books are legally available in ebook format (and of those that are, they might be the pop culture-scrubbed versions for the attempted rerelease), but there's a fan-made collection floating around that's easy to find.
If you do ever pick them up, I recommend reading to at least #22. Most books after that were ghostwritten and there are more than a few that feel like filler. You absolutely need to make it that far though because 20-22 contains a dark, excellent arc that I recall rereading many times as a teenager.