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Summary: Harry Potter is an adventerous, funny, and enjoyble book.
Review: Imagine being someone who is treated like a wash rag and is suddenly told he is a famous wizard and is taken to a school for witches and wizards. Imagine facing your worst enemy and having a life or death duel. That is what Harry Potter goes through. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a thrill-seeking book that makes it impossible to put down. My favorite part is when Harry is about to fall off his broom.
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Summary: You Have To Read It!
Review: Imagine being the most unpopular and misrable person in all England, But in the fantastic and Magical world you are popular and famous. That is what life is like for Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone. Harry Potter is about a boy whos parents were killed by an evil wizard thats when he goes to live with his Aunt and Uncle who treat him very very badly! Then he gets a letter that changes his life forever. A few hours later he finds himself on a train going to Hogwarts and strange and wonderful school where he has many adventures with his two friends Herimone and Ron. From dragon eggs, trolls and giants to men with two faces and magical mirrors. I highly recommend Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone to everybody! It has everything you would want in a good fantasy. This Book is fantastic!
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Summary: Very blatant proselytizing
Review: Imagine discovering that someone loved you so much they gave up their own life to save you. Now imagine that in so doing, they also broke the power of the most evil entity ever known and left that being a shattered remnant of his former self. This is of course, the basis for this, the first Harry Potter novel, but it is also a very direct reference to the Christian faith and its foundational beliefs in Jesus Christ.The parallels continue with stunning force that it's amazing public schools actually encourage children to read this and other books by J.K. Rowling, especially given the absence of other blatantly religious literature by men like John Bunyan and Daniel DaFoe. As Harry becomes aware of his mother's sacrifice and what it meant, he also becomes aware of a much deeper reality that he has existed in all his life even though he has never known of it until now. Following this "conversion" experience, Harry is whisked off to Hogwart's, where he learns more about the deeper reality he now is aware of, particularly the power of love to drive out evil and to redeem. This is religious allegory on a level not seen since the days of C.S. Lewis and his "Chronicles of Narnia." Still, if you can put aside the overt religious themes of the book, you're in for a very pleasant experience. Although "Sorcerer's Stone" is by no means the strongest of the four Harry Potter books published so far -- it spends a long time on setup, and develops neither plot nor characters as well as Rowling's later novels -- it's no slouch either. While at Hogwart's Harry encounters pretty much every variety of menace and friend known to early adolescence: there's the teacher who doesn't like you, the know-it-all girl, the bully, the best friend, the class clown, and of course the stern and loving teachers like Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore. Although the menace Harry ultimately must face is worse than any bogeyman I can recall from my middle school days, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is a magical fantasyland romp through the world of a teenager, told through the eyes of a teenager. Read it with your teen or preteen, and you'll have plenty of chances to talk with them about their own problems and the people they have to contend with at school each day. And if you want to talk with them about matters of eternal nature, this book presents the chance to do that as well.
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Summary: This book was great. There is no other way to explain it.
Review: Imagine living under the stairs of a family who absolutly, positivly HATES you. (This is what happens to Harry Potter in this wonderful book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.) Then, mysterious letters start coming addressed to young Harry but there is one problem-he is not allowed to read them no matter how hard he tries, his uncle just won't let him. But, All of the sudden, you are surrounded by wizards witches and strange candy like every-flavored jelly beans such as chocolate, berry, and ear wax. This only where Harry's life BEGINS! In Hogwart's school of Wizardry and Witchcraft, Harry learns how to do everything non-humanly posible.
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Summary: Harry Potter book 1
Review: Imagine living your life being the outcast of the family, living with your aunt and uncle who treat you like the dirt under their feet. This is the only life Harry Potter has ever known. One day he finds out that his aunt and uncle have been lying to him about his past. Harry finds out he is a wizard and receives an invitation from Hogwarts School of wizardry asking him to come and learn magic. Little does Harry know he is a famous well-known name among all wizards because he defeated the great evil lord Voldemort when he was only a baby. He is thrown into a magical world where the most famous sport is Quidditch, a game on brooms, and they have every flavor beans, I mean every flavor (pepper, strawberry, liver). He learns about a whole life he never knew existed and all about his past. This is a wonderful read for all ages because it is filled with fun, adventure, and humor. I recommend it to anyone who would like a good read.
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Summary: Don't let "For Ages 9 - 12" fool you
Review: Imagine spending your entire summer in the back of an old red diesel truck traveling as a "horse show nanny" to a six year old girl. Some days we were in that cramped backseat for 16 hours - not fun, especially not for an active six year old. Thank goodness I had a little magic on my side. On one of those long, hot trips, I revealed my secret weapon, a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The young girl was immediately excited about reading the book because of the boy on the cover flying on a broomstick. For the rest of the trip, we did nothing else but read. The girl's mother and I enjoyed the book just as much as she did, and that was the best trip all summer... until we got the next Harry book of course. Harry Potter transcends all ages. Whether you are 9 or 99, you can't help but identify with the adventures of the young hero and the values his stories promote - courage, friendship, determination, strength. This is definitely the best series of books I have ever read. Buy them. You can always use a little magic in your life.
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Summary: WOW
Review: Imagine that a children's book could captivate the attention of an adult. The author's choice of vocabulary allows the adult reader to be completely captivated without feeling a loss of intelligence. I enjoyed this book so much, I ordered the next 3 books in the series.
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Summary: The wonderful world of harry potter
Review: Imagine you have found out that you are not really who you think you are. Every thing you know was made up or was a lie. Even your own parents are somebody who you think they aren't. Your name is still the same but the whole past thing was just made up from the top of your twisted uncle's head. In the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling the main character, Harry, goes through exactly this. Harry Potter has always been blamed for the unexplained and the things that go wrong, but when Harry finds out who and what he really is, it's time for a little payback to his Uncle Vernon at Privet Drive. At the same time makes his only family members a little uneasy around him. When Harry arrives at a place where he is not welcome he encounters many adventures. One instance of this was when he receives a gift from the unknown. When he puts it, on he finds out that the gift can do magnificent things beyond even Harry's imagination. This thing that Harry's gift can do helps Harry find out things about his past. It also helps him escape predators of the night. He even can spook out his archrival Draco Malfoy. Draco Malfoy has had it in for Harry ever since he came to the school. If you haven't read this book yet your missing out in the action. You are also missing out on the friends and wonders that you will find in the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone.
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Summary: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Review: Imagine you've been treated by ur family like someone extra ever since you were born: sleeping under the stairs, wearing old and dirty hand-me-down uniforms from your cousin, being treated like a nobody and even worse, a punching bag by his fat and spoiled cousin, Dudley. Then, a mysterious letter that was sent to the Dursley's house totally twisted Harry Potter's life. It was a letter to imform Harry that he has been accepted in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizards. Harry was treated like a famous hero and was honored and admired..... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is an fantastic book written for all ages. It is amazing how the author could make the reader so addicted to the book. I would recommend this book for anyone to read...
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Summary: I love it!
Review: Imagine you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who despises you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor imaginable, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's enchanting novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who unwillingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he's quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, cousin Dudley.
One Day Harry is sent a strange letter from his friend to come, Hagrid, who is a giant and gamekeeper at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He willingly follows his friend Hagrid who had to come and rescue him from his dreadly Aunt and Uncle. There he learns that he's a Wizard and has many classes that he takes to learn magic. Classes like Postions and The Dark Arts.
Harry is very well known at his school. He is very honored to become the very first, "first year" seeker in the very popular game Quidditch. During his stay at Hogwarts he has to defend himself from the evil Voldemort to protect the Sorcerer's Stone, to keep Voldemort from taking over power again. This book is a wonderful story with great description and wonderful adventures.
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