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Summary: I'm Thoroughly Addicted....
Review: Is it possible to lace books with addictive substances? Because I am now thoroughly addicted to the Harry Potter Universe. My best friend calls is "brain candy" and that's just what it is! If "the Lord of the Rings" is a fine dining experience at a super fine restaurant, rich, dense and satisfying, then Harry Potter is the Raspberry Meringue dessert that follows (the *real*, English, raspberry meringue, not this hard, tooth-breaking imitation) - it is fluffy, light, happy, sweet, and all with a tinge of a hint of darkness to come (*whispers* Voldemort!!)
I believe that you do NOT have to like one or the other, Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter. They're completely different things. You cannot compare Filet Mignon to Creme Brulee (forgive the food comparisons, but it works). The two are *equally good*, but are completely different!
I am in the camp that believes you can love and appreciate BOTH. And I do. I'm a die hard "Ringer" (nasty, vile expression, IMNSHO) and have been for years, nay, a decade. And I was reluctant to pick up Harry Potter, as a defence against a roommate I abhorred, who loved it. I was persuaded, 3 years later, to read the first, and I LOVED it!
It is fun, has a great plot, has wonderful characters, and we rejoice that poor Harry finally gets friends! It has a great plot, too, I'm happy to say, and I love how things end up not quite how Harry thought they were! And, this book is soooo... English! and I love that. And I am buying the proper books, from Amazon.co.uk, with the pre-Scholastic changes. I want to read it the way it was meant to be read - as "Harry Potter and the PHILOSOPHER'S stone" (as everyone who is in love with fantastical things will tell you, Alchemist used the philosopher's stone to change lead to gold. no such thing as a sorcerer's stone. tsk tsk, Scholastic!), with all appropriate British slang and all. =)
I commend JK Rowling for her fabulous, first, fantastic book, and love her "success overnight" story.
And now am eagerly beginning book 2!!
Yay!
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Summary: What a wonderful book!
Review: It all started one boring afternoon with nothing to do and my mother was forcing me to read (I am a teenager and the last thing I wanted to do was to read) but she said if I didn't read a book this week, I would be grounded. So I was scavenging through our family books for something semi-decent to read and I found it! The previous summer my brother got the 3 book set of Harry Potter. So I started reading the first one and was completely hooked! After I finished that book, I went on to the other 2, and finished all three in 2 days! They were that good, and trust me, your lucky if I could finish a book. Period! I hope all of you love this book as I have, and as much as Harry, Ron, and Hermione probably had fun in having such wonderful adventures!
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ
Review: It all started when my big aunt came in december2000 well she gave my brother this book because every one in over family knows that he is a bookworm.well he finished it on that day hardly taking 5 hours and he bought BOOK 2 on that day well we all thought that it was his plan and because we also thought he is a book worm because he kept saying"I can't leave it".after he had red all the books.he bullied me into reading it with my mom's support.I told him it is a boring book but he said go on and read you will know.Well when i finished that book i had the urged to read the next book.i also said to my brother that it is a interesting book that J.K.Rowling must know how to write a book like Roald Dahl and it is also hard to stop reading when we had picked up that book and he said well i told yeh.
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Summary: Best book I ever read
Review: It had a lot of action in it. The characters were well described. They all had different personalities. Magic was practiced and new games were made. You met new animals and planets. This book I would recommend to everyone!
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Summary: FOR KIDS AND ADULTS
Review: It had been a while since I have read a book that not only keeps you on the edge of your seat but also you can't put the book down. The writing and imagination in this book is so well done you feel like you are right there with Harry Potter and his friends. You get excited and sad as well as happy and angery. You become connected in your imagination. I can't wait for book 4 to be released.
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Summary: Ignore the Vacuum Cleaner and Stack up the Pillows!
Review: It has been a while since I have read 300 pages out loud to my 11 year old! Harry got us, and what a wonderful way to spend the day. Get to know mean old relatives, a giant sized benefactor, broomsticks, bullies, owls that deliver the mail, and the denominations of magician's currency. This is an off to school story that sheds a whole new light on required curriculum. I think that the dust bunnies under the sofa were even listening. I am pretty sure that the vacuum cleaner and the dishes won't pack their bags and try to escape anytime soon. Stack up a really big pile of pillows and treat yourself, treat your children, for that matter - if you can - treat the neighboorhood and spend the day with Harry Potter and his friends and enemies!
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Review: It has millions of life skills in it, friendship, courage ect.. I mean who wouldn't like it.
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Summary: READ IT!
Review: It is a great book and I think that everyone should read it. I loved it and everyone else will love it, too. It deserves 50 stars, not only 5. And its not only for children either. I also think that the author has a great imagination and is very descriptive, she makes you feel that you are right in the story with Harry, Ron, and Hermione! I would recommend it to everyone, so if you didn't read it yet, you might want to buy it right now and get reading!
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Summary: It's a great book.
Review: It is a great book and it is great for grown ups and also kids. it gives a lot of interesting things about a magic world. Everything seems like the real world here. It's awesome!!!!!
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Summary: A great action-packed,humurous,and delightful book.
Review: It is a great book. Rowling uses funny words and makes hilarous secens and plots. I especilly love the mystery and magic dashed about the book.Harry makes friends and has adventures with them. He battles Trolls and Three-headed monters with them too.He is a naturel at Quititch. Orvall I think this is a great,great,great book and a wonderful read-a-loud.
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