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Summary: Harry Potter is an excellent book even for a couch potato
Review: For a couch potato, I don't read a lot of books and I spend a lot of time watching TV. I was watching Rosie O'Donnell the other day and she was telling her audience how great a book "Harry Potter" is, so I decided to check it out and see if she is telling the truth. Well, I read the book and I absolutely loved it. It was probably my first time ever that I actually finished reading a book in one day. I couldn't put it down. It was full of magic and creativity. The imagination was totally beyond anything I ever watched on television! It took me to a place only I could imagine. It was an excellent book and I absolutely love it. I have all three.~Lori
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Summary: Potter Makes a Second Coming- Best of the Series
Review: For all it's worth, Harry Potter is definately a phenomenon among young readers. This surprising novel had me worried at first. Post my reluctance to read the first book, I found that "The Sorcerer's Stone" is more than I ever could have imagined it to be. However, sequals can either be better, or devestatingly awful. This is the prior. This book carries itself as my favorite in the series due to its adaptation of the Harry Potter formula to create a captivating mystery. The clencher is the end, which is far from a let down. The references to a diary which carries one's very being is the perfect personification of a writer's feelings about his or her own work. This book is well worth the money, but only if you've read the predecessor and are prepared to get deeper stuck into the Harry Potter phenomenon.
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Summary: Excellent reading
Review: For any book lover and anyone who likes to stimulate his or her imagination, this book (as is the whole series to date) provides great material for the imagination. this book continues the excellent writing and plotting. once you get to book 4 (goblet of fire), you can start seeing a pattern in Rowling's writing. but chamber of secrets is fresh, comedic, and enthralling. it is a book that you can't put down. (for those worried about time, dont worry. it's a pretty quick read. in two or three hours you have finished reading the book.)
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Summary: You are deprived if you have never read this.
Review: For so long I thought that Harry Potter books were just kids storys and never bothered to read them. My friends who did read them I thought were over exagerating. I only picked up this book when I had to have a British written book for a book report and figured I would give it a try with little hope. I was truely amazed and finnaly understood everyone who had been going on about "the famous, great" Harry Potter for so many years. This story holds so much imagination and creativity, with a plot I am clueless to how J. K. Rowling came up with, the book is beond words for me to describe, I think only she could do it. I never knew what was comming next and could not stop at the end of each chapter as they were great cliff hangers. I was astonished how it all comes together and fits so perfectly. Everyone, young or old should read this. A common question is weather this one can be read before the first one "The Saucerers Stone" and I say yes, I did and anything that is explained in the first one is easy to catch on in the second one. Read this to make your life complete!
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Summary: Not bad from an adult¿s perspective
Review: For the longest time, I made fun and dismissed Harry Potter as a kid's fad that could not even come close to providing one second of entertainment. Someone lent me the Harry Potter DVD, and I must admit I was impressed, so I decided to pick up this book. After reading it, I must say it's not that bad after all. I can see why Harry Potter series is as popular as it is. It's an imaginative tale of magic and fun, throw in a magic school, interesting teachers, monsters, ghosts, and good old school yard camaraderie and rivalries, and anyone can see the appeal. I wish these books were released ten years earlier so I would have enjoyed it more. Harry Potter continues another school year with the same gang of characters, except right before school, he receives a hilarious but ominous warning about dyeing this year. What turns out is that a monster is loose at Hogwarts, causing havoc and fear for all. Harry and his friends must solve the mystery of the monster, who let the monster out, and how to stop it. I wish there were more dialogue and more action, as description after description could get tedious sometimes, especially for the young. However, it is still a good book, and I might continue reading the rest of the series.
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Summary: Rowling does it again -- and even better!
Review: For those readers who have not read the first Harry book, "The Sorceror's Stone", I advise you to read my review of it as a more general review of the Harry Potter series as a whole. Anyway, although I enjoyed the first Harry Potter novel immensely, I think that "Chamber of Secrets" is even better. Since readers who have journeyed this far with Harry and his friends already are familiar with Ron, Hermione, Dudley, Malfoy, and the rest of J.K. Rowling's delightful characters, this installment focuses on developing their personalities further. We see some of the characters start to change. Who would have thought that Hermione Granger, the goody-two-shoes, would actually devise a plan that broke more rules than any they had done before? We learn why Hagrid got expelled from Hogwarts, and we see Draco Malfoy evolve from a schoolyard bully to a real menace. We also meet Malfoy's sinister father, Dobby the house elf, and the hapless Gilderoy Lockhart. "Chamber of Secrets" is a little darker, a little more complex, and a little more satisfying than "Sorceror's Stone." The plot is more sophisticated, and a bit like an Agatha Christie mystery. Remember that unpredictable plot twist at the end of the first Potter book? There are more here, and they get even more bizarre. For every question answered in this book, many more troubling ones come up in its place, until the climax when everything fits together in typical Rowling fashion. It is very rare that a sequel live up to the expectations of fans, especially with something as popular as Harry Potter. However, "Chamber of Secrets" does just that. (I gave it four stars instead of five only so that someone would read my review.) And I really, really want a flying car.
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Summary: A most amazing book
Review: For those who group up in the wonderful worlds of Dahl and Lewis' Narnia--these books are a wonderful continuation of that same tradition of intelligent "childrens' books." The trials and successes of Harry and his friends are at once touching, hilarious, and most of all engrossing. Something everyone, no matter what age, should read.
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Summary: Thank You J.K. Rowling....
Review: for writing such wonderful books and inspiring my 12 year old, ADHD, son to read and entertaining me as well. Now I have conversations with my son about your books. I've read 1 - 3 in the series and plan on picking up number 4 soon. Thanks again!
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Summary: Excellent reader tool for your kids!
Review: Forget the hype that this is an evil book for children to read! These books are wonderful fantasty stories about good vs. evil, done in tongue and cheek...and by the way, Good Wins! My 12 year old could care less about reading and it was showing in his grades. I was able to challage him to read a chapter in the evening. I would read it that night and we would discuss it. It became a race to see who could finish it first and get the next book! We talk in codes about the book [so the "muggles" don't understand us]. He even got his grandmother to read all the books too. His reading grades have improved and float between A's & B's! WE can't wait for the next book(s)! Get these books..HIDE THEM..so you can read them before your kids! EXCELLENT!
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Summary: Excellent sequel to 'Philosphers Stone'
Review: Forget the hype. Forget the Hollywood-busting film. The Harry Potter books, especially the second book 'Chamber of Secrets', are truly enjoyable reads. Whereas the first one served as a perfect introduction into the Potter world of Wizards, Muggles and everything in between, 'Chamber of Secrets' does what all sequels should; continue the story, elaborating what was said before without treading upon the original text. This book does just that. It introduces new characters and mythology while expanding upon the original ones. Not forgetting anything laid out in 'The Philosophers Stone', the sequel also hints at things to be seen in it's following novels. Great stuff! Can't wait to see the film!
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