For me, I had to for my kids. They were super into it. I doubt I would have gotten into it on my own. But I did thoroughly enjoy the books and most of the movies. The key for me was that we listened to the first few books on audio during family roadtrips. In fact we listened to the first one on the way down to Disney many years ago and had to have the second one delivered to our hotel for the ride back. Our kids loved it so much we breezed through the first one.