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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I am hopelessy overtaken when I open up a book of Harry Potter! I must say that I liked this one even better than the first, and I hope that the series conitnues in this path. There are more moments of magic, mystery, and excitement to be found once again. It is nice to open up the book and see that you are returning to Harrys life that you came to know so well in the first. I like the further development of the beloved characters, and there is never a dull minute while reading this second book. I highly reccomend this book if you fell in love with the first one! Great read for all ages.
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Summary: Who ever heard of a sequel being better?
Review: I am just astounded by how entertaining these books are. It is rare that one can read a sequel and be equally impressed with the storyline, but Harry Potter is obviously the exception to the rule. I think I am on my way to being one of Harry's biggest fans. I only wish I could get myself one of those speedy broomsticks now...hmmm.
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Summary: A VERY VERY GOOD BOOK!
Review: I am nine years old and I am a Harry Potter fanatic. In this book we find out the true identity of "you know who"....otherwise known as Lord Voldemort. We are also introduced to Gilderoy Lockhart, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, who really knows nothing about defense against the dark arts. Moaning Myrtle also makes several pitiful appearances in this book. Severely annoying and also a ghost, Myrtle haunts the girl's bathroom crying constantly to whoever dares to enter. However, she holds a dark secret that is important to Harry when he has to go up against Voldemort. There are many more interesting and scary and funny and exciting things that happen in this story....you must read it!
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: I am not exactly an avid reader, and I was actually bribed into reading the first installment by my mom. To my surprise... it was amazing. I couldn't ask anything more in a book. It's hard to resist all of the characters' charms, the writing is outstanding, and the creativity is top notch. I HIGHLY recommend the entire series to ANYONE, of any age. Now, I'm gettin' my friends to read 'em!
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Summary: LEARNING DISABLED SON LEARNED TO READ B/C of HARRY
Review: I am not kidding. Harry Potter did what five doctors and many others could not. Harry Potter inspired my 9 year old learning disabled son to finally read. He took my paperback of Sorcerer's Stone and plods along. Harry is his buddy. Now, he dies to hear what I recently read in this book -- which is BETTER than the first. I won't gie anything away, so he is pushing to finish the first. Reminds me of my Hardy Boys days or how I watched my sisters swallow Nancy Drew or how the neighbor's kids ate up R.L. Stine. But, this is really the best of the lot.
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Summary: HARRY AND THE SECRET CHAMBER POT
Review: I am not sure if I should err on the side of generosity here, but I cannot give one and a half stars, so it is two. I will do my best to give a reasonable account of my bad mark, as ninety-something percent of the Amazon reviews give top marks, and I don't want to be a sour grape for no good reason.The general plot is familiar if you have read book one, but this is not a bad thing as there is still a 'whodunnit' element. The book is inventive, and the humour is still there, and a little more sharp-edged in places. I got a wry botanical smile out of the magical mandrakes (plants with human-shaped roots), which are nursed in the potting shed from young plants to full grown during the story. They betray approaching maturity by becoming moody and secretive, and trying to move into each other's pots. I think I can also detect improved writing technique, as some of the scenes are more coherent and descriptive than book one, although the characters are barely more fleshed out. And as I am an enthusiast for spiders, my favourite fantasy monster, I enjoyed the big spider scene. (I am trying to not reveal the plot too much, or I would wax more lyrical here.) As to the down side, I am not too worried by the Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, but I am bored by the overly obvious new DADA teacher, who is an unfunny buffoon and a charlatan. I can only presume that a bigger fool employed him. Much worse, the mentally disturbed, slime-ridden self-harming elf who tries to help Harry, just detracts from the whole story. He is in bad taste. I think Rowling hates JRR Tolkien's elves, and hates them with a passion, and wants a spoiler in here. Parents reading this story to their children will want to avoid having to answer too many questions about this elf. They may also have grave doubts about the moral example of the criminal way Harry and co. acquire the ingredients for their Most Potente Potion. It is too much like organised crime for me. Even Malfoy's father has a sneer for career thieves in the Little Shop of Horrors, earlier in the book. Lastly, there is an unpleasant undercurrent in this book, as there was in the first. In the first few chapters, before we get to Hogwart's, there are a number of striking references to ordure - filth, excrement, the smelly stuff, etc, ad nauseam. Dung abounding and toilet humour - Harry completes his potty training! Do we need it? Do we want it? Mercifully, these references largely disappear when we get to school, but only to be replaced by many scenes located in the girls' toilets. Still, flushed with success, Harry completes his mission, so all is well.
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Summary: Dark but delicious
Review: I am old for a Harry Potter fan, 32 to be exact and I have no children. That has not stopped me from falling in love with Harry and his friends at Hogwarts. I received my copy of Goblet Saturday at 10 am and devoured it, finishing it Sunday at 5:30 pm. This book is considerably darker than the first 3 but it is still fun and enchanting to read. What little information initially given about the plot had me, like many readers, expecting certain things but it twists in ways I never imagined. The deceit and betrayals in this book and certain hints at the end lead me to believe Book 5 will uncover a villain who has, in past books, protected Harry. The only thing I'm frustrated over is now having to wait another year for # 5! (By the way, I have already started to re-read, slower this time!)
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Summary: Hello Fools!
Review: I am one of the few people in this wide world who despise Harry Potter. I think it's boring. I didn't even make it through the first chapter (YAWN!) I congratulate J.K. Rowling on the success of the book though and I think that it's just wrong to remove Harry Potter from schools for violence! Hey, I've never read it but I'm smart enought to know that basically every single adult in every single country in the world enjoys Harry Potter and reads it to their seven year old children who enjoy it too and what parent would let their child read a violent book that they thought shouldn't be read at school or at home. I'm now changing my mind. I will change the 1 star to 2 out of pity for all those heartfelt fans who are not allowed to read the books anymore because of some people! I admit, I'm a kid, but the stupidest kid in the world is smarter then all you adults who think Harry Potter shouldn't be read at school! None of the kids in my school deal with this problem, they're allowed to read it. But other schools in the US can't and I'm complaining on behalf of them. Now I'm changing my stars back to 1 because I do think it's dreadfully boring. OK, now I'm through!
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Summary: the best book i have ever read
Review: i am one of thoes peeople who will skip a theme park for a book. i read to much i read a book a day!!! and out of the millions of books i have read it is the best yet.my friend recomended me harry potter and the sorseres stone and i went to go look for it and i got this one instead and i am ordering the sources stone!!! a truly remarkable book!!!! Brittany
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Summary: Great Book for all ages
Review: I am reading the Harry Potter books for my Children's Lit class. These books keep you in suspense throughout the whole story. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in even better than the first. You ever says it is for children must not have read it for themselves. This book should not be banned at all. There is nothing wrong with it. These stories are fanasty that is helping to teach children how to stand up for themselves.
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