I know what you're saying. "That's so last year." Well, I had been resisting reading the books, having successfully done so with the "Twilight" phenomenon. But I had so many people (including my church-lady cousin, which was...bizarre) tell me "OMG YOU SHOULD READ THIS" that I started to get curious. I also had students read them (their decision) for a paper in one of my classes, and I was wondering about...