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Summary: Harry Potter's Not Just For Twelve Year Olds
Review: When I picked up this book, I admit I did it because of the wild craze that hit America. I thought, "Well, they've GOT to be good if everyone's raving about them." I clearly expected a little kids book that would take me a day to read and be nothing more than cute. Well, it did take me only a day to read, but it was the most surprising children's book I've read (even as a child). I'm twenty years old, and I found myself pouring over this one and then aching to buy the next. This book is wonderful, and the mystery is not so blatently obvious that anyone over age thirteen could figure it out by page 10. It's a great book, and for those of you wary to the idea of reading a kids book -- GET OVER IT and start reading already!
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Summary: Very Slow and Somewhat Boring
Review: When I read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone",I was very disapointed in the content and general story. After hearingso many great comments about the book, I finally decided to read it myself. After I did so, I was surprised with what I had read. I am very disapointed that I can not like Harry Potter as so many others do.
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Summary: I reccomend "Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone"
Review: When I read "Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone" I was dazzled. When I was done with the first chapter I couldn't put the book down. I think J.K Rowling is a really good author as well. Also I reccomend this book for all ages. If you like fantacy books then Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone is for you.
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Summary: The Wonderful Wizard of Rowling
Review: When I read a book, I get absorbed into a different life for an hour, maybe two. When I read a good book, I get drawn into a different reality for a few days, and always hate to return to my own. When I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I disappeared, willingly I might add, into a time when my heroes were Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton, and I longed for the day when I would find myself a wardrobe and disappear into the Narnia of C.S. Lewis. But with age comes peer pressure, with that comes disillusionment, accompanied by an attitude of being too mature for fairy tales and imaginary worlds. But, from the moment I opened that book, I was caught in the carefully woven trap of fantasy that J.K. Rowling had expertly crafted. I was engrossed in the story of a boy whose home life had shades of Dahl's Matilda meets Dickens' Pip, and whose true identity is like an Ugly Duckling for all ages. Through Harry, I saw lives that I thought authors had stopped writing about seventy years ago, a parallel universe that didn't have guns or war planes or invading aliens, but an everyday world, on the outskirts of an extraordinary one. The extraordinary secret of these books is how Rowling makes us believe that magic can truly exist in this Muggle world of Mundania. It doesn't matter whether you are six or sixty, whether you have lived through Disneyworld or the Depression; the irresistibility of the Harry Potter books is based in the human desire to believe in the unbelievable, no matter how fantastical or magical it may be. That is what makes a children's book so special for adults everywhere. But, for me personally, this magical fantasy is only a part of the reason why I love Harry Potter. It wiped away all the cynicism I had carefully cultivated over the years, and grabbed at a piece of me I thought I had lost when I was ten. Not only did it provide a magical world for me to base my reality in, but it also provided an entirely new perspective on that reality. For example, when I went to Duke, I was expecting at least a minimal amount of racism in the "Deep South". Instead, one girl who asked me about the book was a blond, blue-eyed child with a Southern drawl that would have put Scarlet to shame. I could start whole conversations, with adolescents no less, based on the parallel universe of Harry Potter. Those incidents gave me faith that there are a few things that can, at the very least, minimise the social chasms that exist in the world. If we have to start with fantasy and magic, then so be it. Maybe it's healthier for adults to believe in unreality just as strongly as children can. It will provide for us, as it did for me, something to smile about when I think the world leaves no room for joy, to recognise that, amidst all of the mundane realities that we face, all the pollution, all the crime, everything that critics claim is collapsing our society, there is one place where magic will always exist for me - in the wonderful world of Harry Potter.
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Summary: Great book for Kids
Review: When I read Harry Potter I thought I'd finish it in about a month, but I got so into it I finished it in two days! It sort of got me in trouble because I spaced out when I was told to do something! and I loved how it showed friendship,mystery,and a bit of fright! I hope you read this book,it's great for summer reading!
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Summary: Harry Potter 's iinfluence
Review: When I read Harry Potter, I could feel myself slipping into his magical world. I loved every tiny detail of it. It is by far the best book I have ever read. I wanted to be in his world, and live his life of danger lurking around the corner and mystery everywhere he turns. I wanted to know Ron, Hermione, Malfoy, McGonnal, Snape, Hagrid, and Dumbledore. It was a truly great book that I would DEFINATELY reccommend to everyone. I can't wait until the next one... and there WILL BE a next one I hope! It was a truly enchanting book.
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Summary: harry potter
Review: when i read the book harry potter, it was really interesting to me.I'm not really in to things like this but for some odd reason this book caugth my eye. harry potter was an intersting book. it was filled with, magic, evilness, success, and hard work. harry goes through a lot in this book. living with evil family members who has a evil spoiled son, and being locked in a closet room.
when harry's 11th birthday arrives he get a letter in the mail but his evil aunt and uncle won't let him open it.
soon thousands of letter start arriving over and over again
which was delievered my owls. but his aunt and uncle does everything in their right mind to keep the letter away from harry. harry finially gets to open his letter when it's personaily brought to him but hargid(someone who is form hogwart school of magic) hargid explains to him that he is a wizard. harry doesn't believe what he's hearing but sooner or later he agrees to go to hogarts school with him, from this point on harry whole life changes. he will never be the same little boy again.
harry goes throught a lot with meeting new friends, learing magic, and figthing battles that he would never have dreamed of. he becomes very successful and will never forget what has happened.this book has inspired me to believe that there is a place for me. that i am here on this earth for a reason. and no matter how hard i have to try i should never give up. you never what may come to you!
i would strongly recommend that people from all over read this book. it's very strong and has a strong meaning to it. i think lots of people will like it!
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Summary: Harry Potter is amazing
Review: When I read the first Book of Harry Potter I couldn't put it down. Because I'm a boarder I have no time to read it,but I'd spend my freetime to sit down and read it. It is so exciting. I got scared near the end. I can't wait till I read the last book.
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Summary: IT'S THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: When I read the first chapter my teacher said to stop reading but it was so exciting I had to keep reading. And I think it's extraordinary how the story became a book. My favorite charector is Prof. Dumbledoor because I like his personality. I just started the 2nd Harry potter and I bet it's going to be just as good as the 1st.
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Summary: Only thing better than reading harry potter is listing to it
Review: When I read the Harry Potter series I loved it. Then I got Harry Potter on Tape. I can say the only thing better than reading Harry Potter is listening to it. Jim Dale does an inceadable job with all of the stories cariters. His voice is so great that sometimes I have to remined my self it is only one man. Of course the J.K. rowling serisers is great and jim Dale takes it to the next level. Even if you own the book you should get the tapes too.
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