Really sorry but going to have to pull out unfortunately as my grandparents have selfishly picked that day to celebrate their 50th Wedding anniversary (the *******s!) Sorry chaps.
I really don't get the whole 'brand fanboy' thing. If a product is good I will buy it, regardless of the brand. To me, it's like only ever buying Vax vaccuum cleaners, for example, and being really, really excited every time they release a new one. "Yeah but look at all the cool stuff my Vax can...
I read 3 or 4 of the books and got really fed up with the introduction of so many new characters, reading pages of their back stories/family histories etc only for most of them to die in the next chapter.
We were given them as well when I was at Primary school- but it was a Church of England school so slightly more understandable. Think I threw mine in the bin on the way out...