If any two series of books helped introduce me and get me interested in literature, it was these two. I can still remember getting the first two HP books for CHristmas and ordering the first couple Series books from a school book catalogue.

However if I had to pick a favorite it be A Series of Unfortunate Events. Why? I enjoy its absurdist style more; it has serious elements but overall it's whacky fun. Of course it does get progressiely darker which I enjoyed. I remember I always liked, from Book 1 and on, the fact the bad guys didn't lose. That stuck with me profoudnly because in middle school I hadn't been exposed to much fiction in which the villains weren't arrested or killed or whatever.

Anyone else read both these series and which one did you like more growing up?