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Summary: Excellent book
Review: If you have children, I would force them to read it! If you don't and you are like me, a middle aged single person with no excuse to read children's books or go to Disney movies, read it anyway! Wow! I made fun of my friends because they were reading children's books but it is an entertaining, intriguing story! The vocabulary is slightly simple for an adult but the fantastic imaginative plot more than makes up for it.
A must read at ANY age.
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Summary: What's all the fuss about?
Review: If you have not yet read Harry Potter and refuse, simply because the books are so popular, you are seriously missing out. The books are so popular because Ms. Rowling captures the heart of a child. She knows the fears and fantasies of children and she writes for this audience. If you remember what is was like to be a child, and believe in magic and dragon and to be afraid of ghosts and to have a best friend whom you love so much that your heart hurts when she or he is not around, you will appreciate this book. This book is not for young kids, but then again, I assume you already knew this. These books are perfect in that they simply capture the heart and imagination of a child. I will keep this short so that you can read the other 2,000 reviews. Enjoy. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Read The Unabridged Audio Tapes They are Wonderful!
Review: If you have purchased the audio tape for any of the HarryPotter novels you would know what i am talking about. "Jim Dale(the narrator) with his fully voiced reading, brings the world of wizards to life in ways unimaged even by those who have read and re-read the book"
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Summary: The Best Just Gets Better!
Review: If you haven't been reading Harry Potter, you are missing out. This is second book in this wonderful series and it tops the first, if that is possible, by making the adventure of Harry's second year at Hogwarts wizarding school come magically to life in a series of events so magical and mysterious, they make you turn each page faster than lightening! A definate read for young and old folks alike.
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Summary: Just as good as the phenomenal book #1.
Review: If you haven't read the first book then don't read this. If you read this one before you won't really understand what is going on. This book starts when Harry has been back at the Dursleys for a few weeks, or maybe a month. Harry has to... I'm not going to reveal anything else. Read it and find out the ending to the sentence. You will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS WAS A GREAT BOOK
Review: If you like animorphs or you have read HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (also a GREAT book!) or you like fantasy,adventure and books about wizzards this book is DEFINITELY for you!
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Summary: A recycle of the first book--don't read if you are over 12
Review: If you like heroes to be heroes, always, and villians to be villains,evil and forever, read the book and don't go any further with this review, it's beyond you. If you know that good and evil are mixed in all, keep reading.In these books, you can safely assume that good and evil will remain separated forever. Each character contains one and only one of the two. I'm not counting pre-adolescent hijinks, which the good characters indulge in, as evil. Not to contradict myself, but there are a few dark tones in the good characters--but these seem to be because the author has overlooked it or not had enough moral character to realize the problem. For example, why has the headmaster permitted a certain individual to remain unjustly accused and convicted for fifty years? It doesn't speak well for "the greatest wizard". This is beyond the ken of the 11-year-olds the author is shooting for, and so goes overlooked. The author plays to the prejudices of the 11 year olds. The fat are treated cruelly--they sit on items and break them, or have their clothes falling down, anything for cheap laughs. Needless to say, none of Harry's friends are fat. The logic puzzle in the first book is useless, since the reader cannot see the bottles--it is necessary to know the position of the largest and smallest bottle for a full solution. However, the reader is not supposed to solve the puzzles in these books, I think. In the second book, a character's name (including the middle name, never previously given) form an anagram of another's, PLUS THE WORDS "I AM . . . ". No way for the clever reader to solve it, he is never given all the clues. Quiddish is a nice idea. However, the author has not been able to come up with new ideas for the game, and in the second book, it is mostly ignored. Kudos to the author for coming up with the minor character of the quiddish captain, noble but obsessed, might have come straight out of Tom Brown's Schooldays. The author might have been smarter not to try to describe the elements of magic society in the second book. All are extraneous to the plot, and lend themselves to contradictions (what WERE the consequences of the sighting of the flying cars?) The author could have just concluded that a pre-adolescent wouldn't see or understand much of it, and let it go. As far as I can see, we're being set up for a final confrontation with the Dark Side, which should please the young readers, and a love triangle, which should bore them out of their minds. I hope the author makes the characters more interesting and fallible, the villians a bit nicer, some interesting ideas, and a better editor (at one point, "ancestor" is used where "descendant" is meant). By the way, shouldn't these kids learn a little algebra and so forth at Hogwarts? Not to mention sex ed! g
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Summary: If you liked this. . . .
Review: If you like the Harry Potter books, then definitely take a look at any books by John Bellairs! He's no longer with us, but his tales were well written tales of fantasy, magic and adventure. They fed my imagination when I was younger, and now that I have nieces and nephews that love Harry Potter, I have passed along the Bellairs books to them. They love them just as much as the Potter books, and while they're waiting for the next Harry adventure, they pass the time reading the extremely fascinating Bellairs stories. And they're books the parents will love too!
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Summary: Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Review: If you liked the first Harry Potter book then you will love this book. It starts out another normal birthday for Harry until a house elf named Dobby pays a visit. Dobby warns Harry not to go to Hogwarts this yearfor disaster will strike. But Harry doesn't pay any attention to the warning and goes to school anyway. At first it is just a normalconfusing year. The school has a new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher ,Gilderoy Lockhart, a concieded warlock who says he's good and has the books to proof it, but refuses to do deminstrations. Harry also has the attentions of two first years Ginny Weasley (Ron's younger sister) and Colin Creevey a boy who loves to take pictures of Harry any chance he gets. But then the attacks start and people think Harry is the culprit. Who is really behind these horrible attacks? Can Harry find out and proof his innocence? This book has 341page and 18 chapters a really short book that you could finish in about a day.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read.
Review: If you thought "Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone" was extraordinary, you HAVE to read this one! It's a lot better than the first one and has a lot more mystery to it! I thought I had figured out the mystery to it when something turned a corner and I was left clueless again. I highly, highly recommend it.
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