Hee, yes, I absolutely believe this--I mean, my god, I was in SGA, I get fanbait! Fanbait are imperfect works to be sure: the better I think a thing is, the less interested I am in doing fanwork for it! But I thought that HP fans thought that HP was "better" than fanbait, and there's kind of an outside view that the HP books are "good" in a way that I think they aren't; I'd go with you to the first trilogy I think, before it went full SGA. The first three are books you could reread as books, I think--but I didn't know if I was biased!