Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3 Audio CD)

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Summary: Remembering Childhood
Review: I am fortunate that my parents taught me to love reading. The Harry Potter series, while intended for children, had me so enraptured over the past week that I wish I was 11 again, just so I could talk to my friends about it. I was, and am, enchanted by the ordinary things made extraordinary in this series and have found myself peering into the sky, looking for my owl mail. If your kids like Harry Potter, try also Roald Dahl, Madeline L'Engle and John Bellairs

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Summary: The greatest book I've ever read
Review: I am from Switzerland and and this was my first book that I read in english and I loved it.I could read it again and again ! It reeched the end of my imaginations. Well I think that the Harry Potter are the best books anyone could write!

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Summary: Not just for kids
Review: I am getting fairly sick of beating these books over people's heads only to have them look at me and say, "Aren't those books for kids?" Yes, they take place in middle school, and yes, they deal with wizards and flights of fancy and yes, the main characters are not even teenagers. However, Rowling has created books with an excellent sense of plot, she throws in twists and turns that certainly threw me for a number of loops. She is amazing at crafting characters that are engaging, original and a lot of fun to spend a few hours with. To top all of this fact, let us not forget that these are books in a series. In the first book there is a sense of safety, that these are children's books and that a wave of a magic wand is all that is needed to make everything come out alright. But this series is slowly shifting as the books continue, and there is a presence looming at the end of the fourth book that clearly shows us that Dumbledore, the schoolmaster who bails Harry and his friends out here and there during their adventures, is NOT going to be able to wave his magic wand and make everything better. The stakes are raised by the end of the fourth book, the danger is very real and an epic battle is shaping up between good and evil. These books are quick reads and deal with the lives of children in a fanciful world, but they are by no means books for children.

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Summary: Bravo, Jo Rowling. For adults too, stunning & complex..
Review: I am in my late twenties, with no children, and I have read and loved all three books. I picked up the first one after seeing it on the bestseller list for so long and was agitated to find out WHY. After loving the first, I've since read all three and thoroughly enjoyed The Prisoner of Azkaban probably the most. What's more is that I've convinced friends, family and co-workers (all adults) to give the series a try and they are now permanently hooked. Most scoffed at first, not wanting to be seen reading a children's book, but after a free loan, they've purchased their own. Rowling's writing is exactly the kind that I've been yearning for when I've read either adult books now, or children's books way back when. After reading so many mediocre adult bestsellers, this was like taking a long drink of water after a hot summer day (perfect cliche for these books). It was refreshing, with a wonderfully complex plot that rewarded me in the end. I am only now finally beginning to introduce my ten-year-old nephew to the series; I want to get him started early. This is a writer that I will be reading for a long time, even after the series is done. What a wonderful plot writer you are, Ms. Rowling. Bravo.

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Summary: 3rd Book is more exciting
Review: I am just a kid abut i know alot, like to read Harry Potter. The action in this book is far better than any of the others. For you people that dont know Harry Poter is a 13 year old boy who is a wizard and every year he goes of to a wizarding school and has great adventures. In this book a villin named Sirius Black has escaped for Azcaban ( the wizard prison) and is out to kill Harry. In the end he gets stuck with this murderer and a werewolf i wont tell you anymore. You will get sucked in like i did.

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Summary: THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS ARE THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD!!
Review: I am nine years old and I am a Harry Potter fanatic! I would totally recommend this book. Definitely read the first two books before you read this one so you can get familiar with the characters and what has happened to them before this story begins. What makes this book really great are several things.....one is that they finally have a good Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; second, the Quittich matches are really exciting; third, Scabbers turns out to be an important character in this book; fourth, Harry gets a new friend for life! I don't want to spoil the ending but there are many more interesting, scary and exciting moments in this book....there are too many to list.

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Summary: Best ever book series
Review: I am reading the book called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.I like this book because it has mystery to it.It also has sad and funny parts to it.

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Summary: Googly Goo doll
Review: I am sixteen years old and have read all the classics. Plato, Thoreau, Salinger, I've read them all. And yet I was blown off my seat by this series. I read the first three in four days, and these were school days. It is a book that is completely original, and unprecedentedly imaginative. I have never read anything close to it. As my calculus teacher put it, "These books are pure pleasure." They toy around with my emotions like nothing ever has, and always leave me satisfied, yet begging for more. The only problem is that there are a finite number of them.

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Summary: Just as good as the other 3
Review: I am still currently reading this series for the second time but I'm over half way through in this book. This is a great book in this book Harry get the maurauders map from Fred and George and uses it to get into Hogsmeade becaude Uncle Vernon wouldn't sign the paper. In this book Ron and Hermione fight a lot because Hermione bought a cat and he keeps on trying to eat scabbers then he finally does(at least that's what they think). After a while they stop figting. Hagrid beomes a teacher. During his first lesson(on hippogiffs) he tells them clearly not to insult them or they'll go berzerk. So guess what Malfoy does he insults it and it hurts his arm(Malfoy is faking) so then buckbeak almost gets executed but escapes with Sirius Black. If you really want to know Sirius Black isn't evil and he didn't hep Voldemort kill Harry's parents actually he was trying to save them. Then Harry and Black become friends and Black and Buckbeak are on the run.Black is actually Harry's godfather. That's all I have to say today. P.S. the 5th one is called Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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Summary: Great
Review: I am that person who hates to read. I bought the first book for my children, started reading and could not stop. I have finished all three book and loved all of them.