I won't lie, this book has influenced my writing a lot lately. I love how detail obsessed it is.
Writing this in 2nd person was response to the fourth book in the above series, as it has some uncanny 2nd person portions throughout.
It is also a perspective I do not read a lot of fiction in, so it was foreign to me.
a) I've only seen the movie, but I'll try to find a copy.
b) I got into an argument with an English teacher in high-school over whether a story could be told from 2nd person well. She really didn't think it could be done. (I wrote several things from 2nd perspective that year just to prove her wrong)
GOOD! I did similar things in school. "You can't do this"
"Watch me!"
I also did the same thing in University, where I wrote a paper about how video games were Art. The tutor, a post-modernist example of artiste, failed the paper. I resubmitted it to the course coordinator, unchanged. He gave it the highest possible grade.
I was working professionally, at the time, for a video game publication - and had published many editorials on the topic, and referenced my own writing in my own paper. He liked that. The tutor did not. :P