Series of Unfortunate Events vs. Harry Potter
After having read the first 5 books of the Series of Unfortunate Events series, I began to make comparisons in my head between it and the Harry Potter series. The first thing I noticed was that I like the HP books much better — I think they are written better, more entertaining, and overall the better series. That said, however, the SoUE books (that I’ve read anyway) are still good books and fun to read (much shorter also), but they just lack the “draw” that the HP books have. If a SoUE book was 700+ pages long, it would definitely take much more effort to finish it than Order of the Pheonix did.
On the movie side of these two series, the entertainment value is extremely close. Even though there as only been one SoUE movie compared to 3 HP movies, I definitely think the two are about equal. In fact, I personally liked SoUE better than the most recent HP movie simply because I’ve read Prisoner of Azkaban and believe that too much of the book was left out of the movie. So, if you like the HP movies, definitely go see SoUE. Just don’t expect the same level of quality to come from the book series.