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Summary: The Best Book EVer
Review: The Harry Potter books are the best!Espeacaily this one, I can't wait untill the fourth!
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Summary: Please Read This
Review: the Harry Potter books are very good,I don't understand why they could be thought to be harmful,J.K. Rowling has a great imagination.if you don't like the book,fine don't read it but don't try to get it banned.The books don't teach kids to love evil.Harry Potter and his friends battle the evil in the world,thats what you want to teach your kids,fight for good.In Harry's world there is good and evil just like in ours.By the way I am thirteen years old and about the comment that Harry Potter is not for anyone over twelve well I don't agree,yes I read Harry Potter but I also read Into Thin Air,The Diary Of Anne Frank and Shakespeare.The Redwall books by Brian Jacques are my favorite but Harry Potter is a close second,yes there will be people who don't like the books but nobody likes every book.Don't ban the books for the rest of us,if you really feel they are bad don't read them,but you're missing a lot.
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Summary: It is the best book I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Harry Potter books are very well written I could not put it down. It pulled you in at the very first sentance. Where did J.K Rowling ever come up with these wonderful ideas. I love this book.
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Summary: Worth every one of the 5 stars !!!!!- Excellent series!!!!!
Review: The Harry Potter books are wonderful, I have enjoyed the first two and can't wait for the third. These books are an excellent gift for my young friends. Read them, you'll love them. Thanks Ms. Rowling.
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Summary: Less than enthusiastic endorsement
Review: The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling The Harry Potter books have stirred up a good deal of controversy -- perhaps without a very much solid justification. Though engaging, there is little to them that would explain their run-away popularity beyond the no doubt much envied chance that gave them world-wide publicity. Rowling weaves the concept of a world of wizards and witches (co-existing with and within the real world of London and vicinity) into the saga of a boy in an English public school (private boarding school). This school for wizards is peopled with an exaggerated mix of two-dimensional entities typical to the public school genre (but that some are alive, some dead, some human, some not) who span the spectrum from a sagacious beneficent headmaster to irredeemable snide, sniggering, and scheming students and faculty and an occasionally encountered personification of pure evil. Unlike the works in this genre of Kipling, Wodehouse, etc., which reveal both positive and negative, the cruelty and nobility encountered in that environment, Rowling dwells on the negative balanced only by insipidity and occasional mindless, unexplained heroism. The evil, violence, horror, and killing in the works are fully three dimensional however, and this has inspired criticism and even censorship. I have read the existing works to my daughters without qualms about content, but only because analysis may render stories of even the worst of role models into valuable lessons and insights. The world of Harry Potter does demand some analysis when introduced to children and the results are quite revealing. The wizard world of Harry Potter, far from being a magical utopia, is full of the worst concepts from human history. Child abuse and endangerment (Potter himself) and slavery (Dobby) are aspects of this society that seem entirely acceptable and fully supported by its denizens. Individuals mistakenly accused (Hagrid) of rule violations by the (often clearly corrupt) wizard bureaucracy are sent to a dreadful prison where they are subjected to extreme mental torment resulting inevitably in despair and madness. Potter himself has his parents killed and is himself attacked when still a baby and is then raised under circumstances worse than Cinderella or David Copperfield. The behavior of Potter and his colleagues within the school is characterized by unapologetic dishonesty, disobedience, and a full measure of stupidity. After telling a lie to cover an infraction, they congratulate each other on how inspired the lie was. Although ostensibly run by an admirable headmaster (principal), the school's hierarchy is clearly corrupt and all rules are to be broken if feasible. Even in the face of extreme peril, when an opportunity arises, Potter will predictably opt to break every rule just to visit a sweet shop (candy store). The reader learns to expect idiocy from our protagonist. When hearing "and he put down his wand" or "they left the invisibility cloak in the shed," children groan with justifiable anticipation that this move will be regretted soon -- and it is, but some deus ex machina will also predictably come from nowhere to save the day. Integrity is also not a trait of our hero. When Potter is left alone in a room for a few moments and notices an article of personal mail lying on the table, the reader already knows from experience that Harry will not only pick up and read another's personal mail but that he will be discovered doing so. One would hope that the protagonist of the series would not so blithely violate the sanctity of personal correspondence or, having done so, would at least have the sense and foresight to avoid detection. Nonetheless, the stories are riveting and the final mysteries clever and unexpected. The villains and their evil are not Disneyfied and some nightmares will clearly result. The wizard world, like so many fantasy worlds, is not one the reader would really like to experience when all is taken into account, but it makes for a story that children can easily follow and become engrossed in -- even if none of the characters deserves emulation. There is no place for censorship in education. But some works deserve to be accompanied by some circumspect scrutiny when presented to children. One cannot protect children effectively, and certainly not indefinitely, from inappropriate influences but a child who learns critical thinking at an early age is much better prepared to handle the material he or she will inevitably encounter. Please give your children some perspective along with Harry Potter. I should ask myself, who am I to criticize? I have not written a run-away best seller. Instead I should acknowledge the debt I owe to Rowling whose works stand as a shining example, a beacon of hope to all mediocre would-be writers of children's literature.
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Summary: Wonderful (should we expect any less?)
Review: The Harry Potter books have only gotten better as the series has progressed. While Goblet of Fire was indeed excellent and definitely took the series to a deeper level, my favorite (so far) still has to be Prisoner of Azkaban. And...well, I'll admit that's mostly due to a certain professor named Remus Lupin. *starts drooling like the insane, crazed fangirl she is* Am I nuts to be 18 and obsessed with a character from a quote-unquote "children's" book? Probably. I love quirky characters, and this book has plenty of memorable ones. Trelawney, for one, is delightfully flaky. If you haven't already, read this book. If you have, read it again.
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Summary: Harry Potter
Review: The Harry Potter books have to be the best books I have ever read. They are captivating and leave me counting down the months until the next book is released. You definitly won't be disapointed!
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Summary: Magical!
Review: The Harry Potter books just get better and better. There isn't much left to be said about the world's favorite wizard and his adventures. Once again, Harry must defend himself against evil forces, but first he had to figure out who is evil and who is good. This book is full of surprises and leaves plenty of open ends for the next book in the series. Don't miss it!
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Summary: "Another Winner From Ms. Rowling"
Review: The Harry Potter books keep getting better and better. Harry doesn't even get on the Hogwarts Express before trouble comes looking for him, in the form of the Dark Lord Voldemort's right hand man, Sirius Black. The plot twists blew me away. I love how the main characters are growing. Harry, Ron and Hermoine all are developing attitudes. Then again, whether you're Wizard or Muggle, when you're 13, you have an attitude. Ron refuses to take any more crud from Malfoy, while Hermione has become a 120% workaholic. The encounters the three friends have also endangers their friendship, as accusations and arguments begin to fly. Professor Snape has become just plain nasty. The introduction of Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, was a good touch. Looks unassuming, but has a first rate mind and is a hit with the students. But is there more to him? Oh yeah, and Rowling puts together another awesome Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Much more rough and tumble than in the previous two novels. Finally, the Dementors must be mentioned. They're in a few scenes, but talk about creepy. They make the Dark Riders from Lord of the Rings look like puppy dogs. Props out to Rowling and her creative genius!
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Summary: Hogwarts meets Azcabam
Review: The Harry Potter books keep getting better and better. This book is the best one yet. In this book Harry meets new creaturs and people. Harry finds his third year at Hogwarts to be though. He is watched constantly because Black, the man under Voldermolt, has escaped from prison to suposodly kill Harry. Hermonie takes on an imposible workload, and Scabbers is on the brink of death. This book has it all. You won't be disapointed if you read it. "WARNING" after reading Harry Potter books you are left wondering..... That last book was so good, so what can I possibly read now?
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