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Summary: So Much Imagination!
Review: What can you say about these Harry Potter books? They are absolutely wonderful! J.K. Rowling continues to amaze me with the things she dreams up. I'm now reading the Prisoner of Azkaban with my sons and they can't get enough of it. Who would have ever thought that my children, (even a 14 year old boy!) would be waiting for me when I get home from work asking if there would be enough time to read tonight! I know there's some controversy surrounding these books, but what's the harm? It's only the age old battle of good against evil. They also teach a valuable lesson: that is, that evil doesn't always look bad on the outside. Sometimes the bad guy doesn't look like a bad guy till you get to know him. I'm all for the spell that these books weave! It's made my kids love reading, and is great quality time for us! This book was just as good as the first if not better!
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Summary: Rowling does it again!
Review: What do you get when you put together a school for witchcraft and wizardry, an impish house elf, and horrific torments abounding? Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts, of course! Rowling captures the same magic in her second book of the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as she did with the first in the Harry Potter series. The book opens with Harry nearing the end of the most miserable summer of his life with the Dursleys and is warned by a strange creature not to return to Hogwarts School in the fall. But Harry, unable to stay away from his favorite place in the world, returns to Hogwarts and some very strange occurences that leave everyone at Hogwarts on edge. The incredibly stuck-up new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and the sobbing spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom soon become the least of the students' worries when their own peers are being turned to stone. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect, especially Harry himself! Who will save Hogwarts, that is IF Hogwarts can be saved?! Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an absolute MUST-read! If you loved Rowling's first book, The Sorcerer's Stone, good luck putting Chamber of Secrets down until you've consumed every word!
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Summary: Excellent reading fun for kids and the adults who love them!
Review: What fun!! I read the books and couldn't put them down. Hooray for Harry and all his friends. Wonderful reading for kids and adults. I am collecting the series in hardcover for my 4 month old grandson to read together as he gets older. He will learn that you don't have to be the handsomest or smartest to be a hero. Thanks J.K Rowling - You go girl!!
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Summary: Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire
Review: What I liked about the book is .......... EVERYTHING!!! Mostly i liked when Harry got chosen for the Triwizard tournoment. I Also liked when he won the tournament. I want to ask J.K. something does Harry like Hermione and does Hermione like Harry?
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Summary: Even better
Review: What makes this a "child's book" is that I, a stupid Muggle (read "adult"), can anticipate some of the story's events and twists. Nevertheless, this sequel is not so lightly "charming" and "innocent" as the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry Potter is taking on unsuspected depths and powers. Ron is everyperson's magician; Hermione the know-it-all pain. What keeps me reading is the wonder-full story; the fast pace; the endlessly amusing wordplay; the ingenious bits of domestic magic so casually tossed off; the palpable characters; Rowling's amazing depth of forethought (story #1 was NOT so straightforward as she led us to believe!); shocking new revelations about Potter's parents, and others, we thought were already settled; the bottomless layers of secrets; and the whole artistic package (have you noticed how wonderfully integrated is the design of these books?). Definitely buy the hardbacks: these are keepers.
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Summary: A little mystery, a little detective work, and a lot of fun
Review: What positive values can be derived from JK Rowling's second Harry Potter book besides "fun"? Well, as compared to the first book, the treatment of Muggles by the magical folks were less stereotypical. Arthur Weasley, father of Ron Weasley, best friend to Harry Potter, offered an alternative perspective. The Muggles, unable to do any spells, came up with non-magical solutions to handle problems in life. An example was the development of lock-picking skills - something which apparently never occurred and a source of facsination to wizards who had become accustomed to using spells to overcome obstacles. The author also showed the prejudice is a prevalent human nature that exists not only by Muggles like Harry Potter's guardian family against the magical folks, and vice versa, but also among magical folks between those whose antecedents were magical and those whose antecedents included Muggles. For those who had read the first Harry Potter book, they might appreciate that JK Rowling added further development to her characters in the second book. The principal characters showed either they learnt from the experiences from the earlier book, or revealed characteristic weaknesses in failure to wise up. Plot-wise, unlike other authors who tried to re-use the formula of an earlier success, JK Rowling took the story through a different plot. In reminiscent of good old traditional mysteries, more clues compared to the first book were scattered through the book on the identity of a mysterious adversary who plagues Hogswart, the school of magic. What is similar to the first book was that the school staff at Hogswart maintaining an official denial to the source of the threat. In the first book, the Philosopher's Stone (renamed the Sorceror's Stone in the movie) was a closely guarded top secret. This time, it was the Chamber of Secrets which was relegated to the classification of myths and legends. Harry Potter and friends must track the mysterious monster released from the horror by a mysterious Heir of Slytherin which threatened to exterminate students whose antecedents included Muggles. New characters along for the ride was the flamboyant new teacher Lockhart who taught Defence Against the Dark Arts, younger sister of Ron Weasley, Ginny, who adored Harry, and Lucius Malfoy, father of Draco Malfoy who antagonised Harry and friends in the first book. Harry and friends had a hard time tracking the elusive culprits, and things never looked more bleak when the greatest defender of Hogswart, Dumblemore, was suspended and sent away from the school. Rowling managed to weave dramatic suspense into the finale. No doubt, impressionable minds (which included more than just children) could be heavily influenced or seduced by lure of the supernatural, as charged by Anti-Harry-Potter activists. Whether Harry Potter is a brilliantly packaged trap to lure the innocent to ungodly witchcraft is probably a question which JK Rowling knows the answer best. However, the ultimate responsibility is on the reader to develop his or her own discernment and this is not likely to happen by banning of books and failure to expose or to prepare the mind to face new challenges.
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Summary: BRILLIANT! this book is miles better than the last one.
Review: When 12 year old Harry potter arrives again at Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry, with a warning from a self-piteous house elf and a friend called Ron a, there is no guarente that things will be normal. Harry is puzzled when the strange voices seem to whisper to him from the walls and why can only Harry hear them? Investigating can only lead to trouble. Harry finds himself thrown into a world of exitement, adventure and danger. Will he dare to challenge the heir of slytherin? And if he does, who will win?
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Summary: Best Sequel Ever
Review: When ever I ask my librarian at school how the sequel to a book is, she says, "The original is much better." That's not true with the Harry Potter books. I found H.P. and the Chamber of Secrets more interesting and better written than the first. Harry's third battle with Voldermort is more exciting thn that of his first two. The addition of Dobby, the House Elf for comic relief was great. After finishing this one, I went straight to the library and got a reserve on the Prisioner of Azkaban.
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Summary: I'm hooked!
Review: When I first heard of Harry Potter books I thought I wouldn't like them. After I read the first one, I had to read the second one.I was hooked! I'm interesed in witches(wizards),aliens, you know, that kind of stuff. If you are too, you should definitly read this book! But, use with caution, they can be addictive.
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Summary: Makes Any Other Book Just Okay
Review: When I first read The Sorcerer's Stone, I kept telling myself that no book was ever as good. But when my mom's friend brought me a copy of The Chamber of Secrets, I was truly amazed that a sequel was actually better than the first. Now, All I talk about is Harry Potter. he's my hero even though he is only a book. I read the 2 every month, and know everything about them. I'd dare anybody to challenge me to a trivia quiz on Harry Potter. I even convinced my teacher to stop reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and read Harry Potter. Even some of the wild kids sit down and listen to Harry's adventures at Hogwarts. We are now at the part where Harry has just discovered the Mirror of Erised and is going to bring Ron to see it, thinking he'll be able to see Ron's family. This book is very times 1,000,000 good.
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