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Summary: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets !!
Review: Although this book is very well written and interesting to me it is a bit disappointing. In my opinion it is not played out as well as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I believe that this mistery has a great deal of suspense and action but does not cut it for me. This story plays with the past too much and as there are only supposed to be seven books to Harry Potter I would like to see more of the present. Although some aspects of te past interest me, for instance, Harry's parents. What they did to fight against Voldemort and their school days. But none of this is present in this novel and the past that it does play with does not go in depth too much. It leaves you with basic information that could be summed up in a paragraph but is fluffed to about five-ten pages. Not much of this information will play a major role in the future of this book series or at least I think so. This book features some interesting things though. It gets more in depth with Harry's ability to talk to snakes, adds a past of Hogwarts, the quidditch season always to be looked forward to, a duelling club, and a monster who is as deadly as they come. I will still recomend this ook to many because it is good, but is not close to the best of the series by far.
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Summary: Greatest series of Wizardry since before Hogwarts
Review: Amazon says for readers up to 12 years of age. I am 16 and the Harry Potter series are by far my favorite books. Rowlings keep you in suspense through out all of Harry's ordeals. During the whole story, you feel for Harry. Your sad when he's with the Dursleys (his incredibly cruel adoptive parents), you're overjoyed when they escape detention, and you fear for him when he faces the evil that has been hurting the students at the school. I liked the book for it's new perspective on magic and people who can't perform magic. If you want to read another series in the same genre, check out the Chronicles of Narnia. Great books also. These books are great for all ages, little children will love the cool adventures as well as adults. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories that take you away from everything else. I also encourage Rowlings to keep writing. These books are spectacular.
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Summary: Children of all ages should read this book!
Review: An amazing adventure book with just the right mix of comedy, action and excitement! I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the book from England. I can't wait for the next book! This author will rival Roald Dahl for the title of favorite children's and adults author!
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Summary: An amazing novel with a rich plot
Review: An amazzzzing book, superior to Rowling's previous book in this series. I am anxiously anticipating the 3rd book (not yet published) and am also hoping that Rowling will have another burst of inspiration and will write yet another Harry Potter.
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Summary: A worthy sequel
Review: An excellent follow up to HP & the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone for those of you in the US of A). It is a little uneven at times, but as JK Rowling has promised, it is just a shade darker than the first novel, which makes it just as enjoyable.
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Summary: As Good as They Say
Review: An instant classic series, it has all the characteristics of the finest children's books. It has a really likeable, plucky but not perfect hero. Many interesting characters, good friends of his, and many others you love to hate. It has adventures, suspense, humor. It really does (without any overt moralizing) pitch good against evil; and though it's always a close call, so far good has won out. And it's a children's world --- adults always take second place to the kid characters. Which also means, it's the kids who are called upon to be heroic against villains of all ages. The only problem for me (a grandmother!) with the second book is how suspenseful I found the last few chapters, not good for the hypertension!
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Summary: An unpredictable mystery that keeps you turning the pages!
Review: An outstanding book. The characters are charismatic and quirky. I enjoyed the roller coaster of events that kept this book moving. Very ingenious to have a book for this age group which doesn't involve women in hoop skirts.
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Summary: Finally, a sequel as good as the original!
Review: And just as good it definitely was! Harry Potter is back, and in more trouble than ever, but with just as much humor and excitement. The story opens a week or two before Harry returns to Hogwarts, and takes off quickly. Harry is accosted by a tiny house-elf, Dobby, who frantically warns Harry that he should not return to Hogwarts and goes to great lengths to stop him. Harry, believing that the house-elf was sent by his school rival Draco Malfoy as a prank, is torn between taking Dobby's advice or discounting him altogether. Back at school, Harry hears a mysterious voice that none of his friends are able to hear, and there is a string of attacks on kids (and cats) at the school. The plot builds rapidly, never a detail you should overlook, even better than "The Sorcerer's Stone." Several previous reviews harshly criticized Harry's disobedience to school rules, saying that kids reading it would pick up bad habits, and think that it's okay to disobey teachers. I was stung--the book doesn't say that at all! If anything, Harry exploits illustrate the consequences for breaking the rules, not setting a double standard for "good guys" vs "bad guys." There is nothing harmful in these books, and I think they are a wonderful addition to any personal library.
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Summary: Brilliant! Excellent! Will make kids want to read!
Review: And of course, in our society, if you can't read, you're screwed. My nephew has long had problems reading, but, with some better education he has taken to these books, and LOVES them! I mean, for an almost-teen to tackle a 400 page book for a book report instead of something much smaller speaks well of this writer's ability to capture attention and write a compelling, meaningful, book. And I as an adult (an engineer and a minister) have loved all four books! This is genius writing at it's best. Reminds me a lot of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, or the Warner Brothers Cartoons, or Shakespeare - for the simpler minds, there's a wealth of entertainment and easy readability, and for the adults/more advanced minds, there's another level of humor and literary wonderfulness. Although choosing a "favorite" from the four books now in print is very difficult (they are all easily 5 stars), I would have to say that this was my second favorite, losing out to Book 4. But that's kind of like saying I prefer the filet mignon with 1.5 pound lobster over the prime rib with french onion soup and chocolate cheese cake for dessert. See what I mean? Do you have a child? Do you have a child within you? THEN READ THIS BOOK! I have read hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of childrens books and teen novels, and I think the Harry Potter books have everything a child wants - a hero who's "not mainstream", who has some secret powers he didn't know he had, who faces danger bravely but with fear, and who wins - but who wins not by destroying an enemy, but by overcoming a situation. And for you bizarro fundamentalist Christians who think these books are evil - please read your Bibles, stop listening to your ministers, find a church with intelligent people who actually understand the Gospel, and leave J.K. Rowling alone. These books exemplify the Christian life in a way that puts them in a category above most children's writing. I mean, please - if you want to teach moral, ethical behavior, these are wonderful books for it. And remember - I'm a minister, trained in this stuff, so I know what I'm talking about. These books are not evil, they do not promote evil, they do not affirm evil, they do not glorfy evil. On the contrary, they glorify self-sacrifice, dedication and honesty to friends, honesty in the face of evil, courage in the face of evil, and most importantly, these books show our children (and us adults) how to face our fears with bravery, even while our knees are knocking and we wish drastically we didn't have to face it. We can learn a lot from little Harry Potter, and I find it a shame that so-called Christians have decided to wage some kind of bizarre illiterate crusade against these books.
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Summary: delightful
Review: Another charming tale in the Harry Potter series. It's been several years since I first read the book, and on reading it a second time, it was like reading it anew all over again. I forgot how good it was. Full of new surprises and new revelations about the magical world of witches and wizards.
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