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Summary: Best Children's Book I've read lately
Review: I've heard of the Harry Potter mania sweeping across the nation. So I bought this book. I was so amazed at how well written and how well crafted the story was. It's been a long time since I've read a good children's novel , probably since "Bridge to Terebithia" or the "Chronicles of Narnia". I don't think that there is anything too violent or bad about the book at all. Evil versus good will always be in any good story. I think it's a great story for children to read.
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Summary: A book for the ageless readers!
Review: I've just completed reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and yes, I'll confess, I've past my childhood ages for a long time, and now proceeding towards middle age, and still, I feel that I've been pushed back in time, toward my forgotten childhood, when the world was full of mystery and endless magic! J.K. Rowling has amazing inventive authority in gripping a reader's attention with such commanding lyrical voices in her story, a reader's age becomes irrelevant. I was hooked to the book from the very first sentence, couldn't take my eyes off the book till the fascinating end. I heartily recommend Harry Potter to everyone. Let's have little magic in all of our "Muggle" lives.
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Summary: Rich Imagery and Wizardy
Review: I've just finished re-reading this first Harry Potter book to refresh my memory in anticipation of the movie soon to be released. I was delighted all over again with the rich imagery and vivid imagination of the author. I can visualize the Hogwarts castle, flying broomsticks, witches, wizards, cauldrons, 3-headed monstrous dogs, owls that deliver the mail, unicorns, the invisible cloak, magic wands, dragons, Hagrid the hapless gamekeeper, Draco...Harry's mean-spirited adversary, staircases that move, paintings with disappearing subjects, feasts in the grand hall, spirited Quidditch matches, lessons in sorcery, alchemy, potions and spells. It's a whole new world for Harry, who until his 11th birthday didn't know that he was a world-famous wizard. After being orphaned as a baby, he was raised by his stingy aunt and uncle along with his piggy, selfish cousin, who were Muggles without any special powers. They had tried to deny and hide Harry's true calling, but the letters that started arriving before his 11th birthday, inviting him to attend Hogwarts, were unavoidable, and Harry was whisked away on the Hogwarts Express to a world he never knew existed. Join Harry and his new-found witch and wizard friends in this great adventure that will thrill and delight you and have you waiting for more.
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Summary: My opinion
Review: I've just read this book. It reminded me of the books I read when I was about twelve or thirteen. Rowling has combined the elements of allegory with the formulaic children's novel. Boy's parents die and he's sent to live with wretched relatives, then sets off on an adventure. Sure, it's been done before, but it's refreshing to see a new approach to and old idea. The allegorical elements don't stray far from the path, but they are classic. Sure, the evil is personified say through someone like Malfoy and even at times Snape, but it's always what's perceived by the reader and even the main character. What isn't expected is the twist that Rowling delivers so many of throughout the book. Some expected and more unexpected. It doesn't make sense to me why people wouldn't let their children read it. The Bible is a constant battle between good and evil. However, not many children are interestd in the Bible. Yes, Harry Potter contains witchcraft and many elements Christians don't exactly agree with. However, if it will teach children right from wrong, good from evil,then I say let them read it. To deny children the opportunity to read this book will only increase their interest in it. I feel it's wrong to not let children read a book because it goes against the beliefs of the parents. Children should be the judge of what they read, not their parents. Rowling has done an excellent job in getting children to read. The children's market was lacking something that would spark children's interests. Maybe the books do lack substance that adults seek, but what matters is that it's what the children like. Children are taken to a place that's free of Muggles and the problems of the Muggle world when they read Harry Potter. In today's times, I can see why children would enjoy Harry Potter so much. They can also identify with being the under dog or being the new person or being the poor kid or being the bossy girl or even dealing with bullies. Rowling tackles these subjects in a way that kids can understand them. That's where the true value of Rowling and the Harry Potter series lies.
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Summary: Delightful Whimsy
Review: I've met a lot of adults who read this book and loved it. One was a 72 year old man! So I had to at least read the first of the series. I loved it! So much fun! I read it in 3 days and if I idn't have to work I would have read it in one day. I'm a middle aged woman and I hope I never outgrow enjoying fantasy. If you can't enjoy this, no matter how old you are, then you are a true Muggle of the very worst sort. --This text refers to the Paperback edition
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Summary: A MUST READ!!!!!!!
Review: I've never read a book as great as this one! J.K. Rowling did a spectacular job. I was just about to read the second Harry Potter book, when I realized, needed to read the first book. Am I glad I did! It would be hard to read the second book without reading the first book because you have to get to know all the characters and vocabulary.
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Summary: Better Read this before you go see the Movie
Review: i've never read these books yesterday was the first time I've ever read um so I figured I beter start right now before the movie comes out.
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Summary: children's book for adults - I love it
Review: I've now read all four Harry Potter books, and Part 4 is the best, but all the others are still five stars. I won't go into the story as everyone should know it by now, and the fewer you know before reading the better it's anyway. I'll talk about the characters instead. There is one respect in which The Sorcerer's Stone really is a children's book, namely that every character in it has to be either really good or really bad, with one exception but I won't go into that since it would spoil a lot of the story. Joanne K. Rowling really takes this black-and-white drawing to a high extent. Dudley Dursley, for example, is not only a bullying idiot - no, he's fat AND mean AND stupid AND looks like a pig AND has really bad marks at school and so on. It's fun, but sometimes it's a bit much. The same, only the other way round, goes for Harry. Personally, I like Hermione Granger a lot more than Harry. This could be because I'm a girl and because I know very well what it feels like to be brainy and not accepted because of that, but still, I think she's more credible than Harry and certainly nicer than Ron, who treats her really unfairly up until the Troll incident. I also have a slight problem with the Sorting Ceremony. As we are informed, the qualification for Gryffindor is Bravery, and the qualification for Slytherin is Ambition, yet all the Gryffindors turn out to be really nice and get along magnificiently, while all the Slytherins are evil and cruel. That's a bit much, and it gets you into thinking why Dumbledore doesn't simply reject the Slytherin students, seeing that many of them have turned Dark before, or why he has to put all of them into the same house with Snape, who openly favours them all the time, as their Head. Also, I don't see any reason for Hermione to be in Gryffindor (as opposed to Ravenclaw) except for the fact that she was destined to be Harry's friend. Still, the book's excellent (though not as good as Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire). Everyone says so, and in this case, they're right.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: I've often prided myself on being on top of trends...however, I was so far behind the times on the whole Harry Potter "thing" that I'm alost ashamed to admit it. Oh well. I saw the incredible film version and realized...wait...the book is always better than the movie (and this case it was). I had to see what the excitement was all about. I can't possibly say anything new or original about this book, except to say when you fall for the Harry Potter gang, you fall forever.
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Summary: Magically Stupendous
Review: I've read a lot of books in my day, and Harry Potter is certainly one of the best. This magical adventure is about a young boy who is thrown from his miserable life at the Dursleys' into a wonderful adventure of destiny and friend ship. And he certainly has friends, for here is the famous Harry Potter, defeator of the dark lord Voldermort. Yet his heroism is just beginning, as his friends and he have to save the Sorcerers Stone from the returned Voldermort and his evil companion. Yet Harry must face Draco, Snape, Peeves,Mrs. Norris and many other challenges that stand in the way, for the sake of the school, and the wizard world. This book is certainly the staart of something big. Also read Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets, Prisoner Of Azkaban, and the upcoming Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament.
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