Rating: Summary: It is the best thing since sliced-bread!!! Review: It is the best book because it actually feels like you are Harry Potter and you are trying to live his happy, faithfull, and hard life as a 11 year old.
Rating: Summary: the best Review: it is the best book ever. i think adults and children should read it. it is certainly a good book for everyone.
Rating: Summary: I didn't like the start but I liked the ending... Review: It is year two for Harry and with the help of his friends he must escape the Muggle relatives of his, deal with Drago Malfoy, and solve the mystery that threatens Hogwarts.What I did NOT like: 1) About 45% of the way through the story I'm still asking myself, "When will the Chamber of Secrets start coming into the story?" 2) It was bad enough in the first book that Harry was "abused" but it gets pretty bad in this second book. I felt like I was watching a Jurassic Park movie where the sequel needed something bigger and badder to make us sympathetic to Harry's plight. Didn't feel it had to get as extreme as it did. 3) Wanted more "pie in the face" for Draco Malfroy...left me kind of unsatisfied. What I DID like: 1) Once the Chamber of Secrets story line started it was a good little mystery with suspense and some nice twists and turns. 2) I like the introduction of more of the Weasley family and how Ron's family becomes a more involved component in the story 3) The climax and revealing of the "bad guy" was believable I liked this book less in some ways and more in others than the first one, Sorcerer's Stone. I liked it enough that I'm definitely going to read the 3rd installment.
Rating: Summary: wonderful just wonderful!!! Review: it just keeps getting better, you feel for Harry when he has to go home for the summer!!and you feel the excitement when he gets to go back to school.! i just know all of the following books will be just as good if not better!!!
Rating: Summary: best one yet Review: it keepedt you reading and wondering who opened the chamber
Rating: Summary: Stronger Review: It seems every Harry Potter book in the series gets better and more layered. More twists in this one and the syntax is brilliant. A very smooth, flowing book that makes for great reading whenever. But you gotta start with Book 1 ...
Rating: Summary: a slightly disappointing sequel to the Sorcerer's Stone Review: It seems that everyone has now discovered Harry Potter. I continually felt that in this volume that the author tried to fill the reader in on the essential elements that might be needed if they hadn't read Sorcerer's Stone. A sequel should stand on its own without without continually retreating. Background is essential but the way it is done here creates a disjointed plot. I would have liked a clearer picture of what skills the budding wizards have mastered. I don't know what it is they are capable of doing making their behavior unpredictable. The character development seems to have stalled and this needs attention if interest in this series is going to build instead of fade. There is much about this new world that needs to be fleshed out. I loved the Sorcerer's Stone but was less enthused about the Chamber of Secrets. I hope that in the next sequel the author can create a plot that stands on its own and delves into and expands our understanding of the fantasy world she has created. Right now I don't believe she really has more than the bare framework settled in her own mind. I am willing to wait, if need be, for her to figure it out before she presents us with her next effort.
Rating: Summary: Evil Antics Petrify Potter Review: It started with an insult on the quidditch pitch. It ended with terror, mayhem, and the near closure of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When Harry starts back at Hogwarts, the worst he has to worry about is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher - the charming Professor Lockhart, a first year who considers Harry to be godlike, Draco Malfoy's bullying, and of course, quidditch. When the caretakers cat, Mrs. Norris, is found haging, as though dead, nobody but Filch is particularly sorry. But soon it is students who are being attacked, and the castle is haunted by the fear of the unseen monster that prowls within. As the attacks intensify, more and more clues point towards our hero, Harry, as the perpetrator of the evil. Harry struggles to clear his name, and to find the real culprit. Everyone seems to be against him, and time is running out... The second Harry Potter adventure, this book will leave you dying to read the third! Rowling conjures up the atmosphere inside the besieged castle very vividly, and readers will feel they are there with Harry as his search leads him closer to the truth about the monster, about the attacker, and about himself...
Rating: Summary: keeps getting better and better Review: It starts out with Harry back living with his Muggle(non-wizards) Aunt and Uncle. He does not like it there because for the past twelve years they have been treating him like a dog, locking him in the cuboard everytime he does something wrong. When he goes back to Hogwart's(Wizarding School) a couple of kids are found practically scared to death. they are stiff as a board. Everyone is saying it's the relative of the Wizard who formed the Slitheran house and everyone thinks it's Harry because the hat wanted him in Slitheran and he can talk to Snake's. When he does finally find out who is causing the kids to freeze he is in for more than he expected.
Rating: Summary: another great one Review: It took me about four or five chapters to fully get into this book as opposed to the first in the series. Once I got into it though, I couldn't put the thing down. Once again, great characters and storytelling. Truly an enjoyable book. Now it's on to The Prisoner of Azkaban!
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