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Summary: Harry Potter -- Chamber of Secrets
Review: Speaking as a mother of a child you hated to read. I love the Harry Potter series and will reccommend it to anyone who has a child that does not like to read. My son would always complain when I would tell him to turn the TV off and pick up a book. I bought the book to read with him and his sister then his teacher started reading it to the class. He then got so engrossed in the book that he started reading it on his own. My son now goes to bed early so that he can read for 30 minutes. He is actually turning the TV off and picking up the book. I now have to tell him to put the book down and go outside for some air. He is about finished with the second book and impaitently waiting for me to buy him the third book so that he can start on it. Thank you J.K. Rowling.
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Summary: One of the truly great CHILDREN'S books of the 20th Century
Review: Start with some Roald Dahl, mix in some C.S. Lewis, add a touch of Tolkien and maybe a dash of John Bellairs and viola! J. K. Rowling is a superb storyteller in her first adventure and many more to follow (seven in all). Any reader of literature should buy this book and read it to their children (4 and up); they'll certainly enjoy it too, maybe even more than the kids. Fabulous!
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer¿s Stone is a Keeper!
Review: Student Reviewer for RebeccasReads.Com Karrie G. writes: - When the story begins, Harry Potter is a skinny ten year-old orphan with a lot left to wish for. He is unloved and unappreciated by his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and his spoiled bullying cousin Dudley. Harry has been living with them for as long as he can remember because his mother and father died when he was only one year old. The only thing that seems special about Harry is a lightning-bolt shaped scar on his forehead. Just before his eleventh birthday he starts receiving mysterious letters which uncle Vernon snatches away. This part is very funny! The minute Harry turns eleven, a fierce-looking gigantic man called Hagrid bursts in and tells Harry the most surprising news of his life. Harry is a wizard and has the honor of being the only wizard ever to survive an attack from Lord Voldemort & his lightening-bolt scar marks him so. Hagrid also tells Harry he is now ready for Hogwarts, the best boarding school for wizards. On the journey to Hogwarts via a magical train, Harry makes his first ever friends, Ron and Hermoine & a new world opens for him full of magic, adventure, danger. I loved this book and so do many fans all over the world. You're seriously missing out if you don't read this book! It's exciting, funny, scary and full of adventure. I'm so glad J. K. Rowling has written more. For Karrie G.'s full review do check out: rebeccasreads.com.
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Summary: oh, so funnn....
Review: Such a stupid story, BUT so interesting! ... I just cannot put it down. So many neat ideas, the gateway in the station, the wand choose it's master, the all-flavor snacks, the Quiddith contest. I found myself fell into a dreamworld named Hogwarts. It's an imaginary and dream world where good and evil fights, dazzling, flashing, with knighthood.
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Summary: I got my childhood back...
Review: Suddenly reading Harry Potter I felt like I did when I was a kid and found the most exciting un-put-down-able book - Secret Seven, The Hobbit - and disappeared into a wonderful world of magic and adventure for an entire vacation. It's a nice way to feel at 43! My friendly local bookseller could not recommend it highly enough - the only trouble was she was selling it faster than the books were coming in! It's a great holiday read for young and old and I am recommending it to all my "adult" friends (put down the A.S. Byatt, gals, and read this!) If they are very, very good, some kids might get copies for Christmas - so I can watch them try to keep the book away from their parents.
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Summary: The book was magic it was so funny.
Review: Super third grade reader from Birmingham, Michigan. I first discovered the book when my teacher started reading it to the class. The book was magic and it was so funny. My favorite part was when Harry Potter got the three headed dog to sleep. I also like the part when Harry and his friends go into the woods and they find the unicorn blood. I reccomed this book to kids like me who like to read a fantasy.
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Summary: unique, perfect, awesome, beautifully written, terrific,
Review: superb, delightful, magnificent, a majical journe
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Summary: Interesting ideas, but no depth for adults
Review: Sure, the book is full of fun and creative ideas, such as a mirror that reflects your deepest desires, people in photos appearing and disappearing, jelly beans in every possible flavor that exists in the world, and the "sorcerer's stone" that makes you ageless, etc.etc., but for those adult readers who are expecting some kind of spiritual, life-changing depth from this book, you may be disappointed and find it boring. I don't agree with the reviewers here who recommend this book as enjoyable for all ages. I would say the book is for children. There is nothing more here than the plot itself, unless one wants to interpret the plot as a metaphor. So if you're not particularly a fantasy book fan, and you're just curious as to what the fuss is all about, don't waste your time reading the book, and wait for the Hollywood version to come out this summer. The plot is more suitable for a movie than a book anyway. For those adults who are seriously interested in sorcery and such, I would recommend the REAL sorcerer's book, Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan", and its seven sequels (non-fiction). It's about a western guy who becomes an apprentice of a Native American sorcerer who teaches him how to "see" the world beyond ordinary reality. I've never read anything like that before. It's a very unusual, thought-provoking series, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in something out of the ordinary.
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Summary: Sweet Summer, Bebe Cambel
Review: Sweet Summer is about how the author, Bebe, grew up knowing and not fuly knowing her father. Every summer Bebe went down South with daddy where life was completely different than with her mother in the North. Everythign was 'easy living' as she put it, where you could run down the lane in yoru bare feet, pump water and boil it for a hot bath,and where ain't wasn't a word momma could yell at you for. As much as I had enjoyed the book, it stirred up a few emmotions i had though hidden as it became more clear exactly how much she idolized her handicapped father Through different flashbacks of the summers they had shared an the laughs they enjoyed though her youth and well into her adult and mother hood. A must have novel for every "softie" out there.
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Summary: A Magical Experience for All
Review: Take a likable hero, put him in a miserable situation, then free him to explore the most amazing things and meet the most amazing people. It's a formula that's worked ever since Homer and has charmed the British people since at least Dickens. And it works for last year's surprise literary hero, Harry Potter. Harry is the very grudgingly accepted boarder of his godparents, who force him to live under the stairs in the broomcloset of their modest suburban home while they lavish all sorts of presents and sweets on their own child. Harry is different, you see. More different than his godparents will admit. He is not born to be a "muggle" (a non-magical being) like them. He is born to be a great wizard, and in spite of his godparents' every intention he finds himself on the way to wizard school. This first Harry Potter book is lighthearted, zesty fun and quite literally fun from seven to seventy. Don't wait to borrow it from a child--get ahold of your own copy and enjoy.
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