Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set (Books 1-4)

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Summary: Harry Potter books are fun and exciting LSMS
Review: Unless you are an emotionally deprived 8 year-old with severe learning difficulties, you have no excuse for reading this tripe. It is great that Rowling has strengthened the market for children's fiction, but a shame that she has done so with such drivel. This is derivative, poorly written claptrap, and it will not be remembered in 20 years, let alone 100.

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Summary: We've all devoured these books
Review: I bought these books for my son as a reward for good grades on his report card. He was delighted to receive them, and now everyone in the family but my youngest (who should be starting to be interested in this type of book soon) has read them. My oldest reads them over and over in no particular order, just because she likes them so much, and my son picks them up and reads snatches from this book or that one often.

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Summary: AMAZING
Review: I have been a true Harry Potter fan for 6 years now. These books are GREAT. Harry Potter books are fantasy books about wizards and their wonderful world and about a young boy who falls into a world of magic and adventure. Harry Potter is full of bravery and is one of the best characters I have ever had the pleasure of running into. He is surrounded by good and the bad but he faces it all with courage in his heart and love by his side. Harry Potter Books have turned millions of children into readers and never fail to be exciting, sad, and funny. I have fallen in love with the characters that J.K. Rowling presents in Harry Potter Books and envy them for their unique and realistic personalities. If you haven't read these books you are positively insane and you must immidiately read them or be shot. These are the greatest books ever written and I applaude J.K. for her writting that always ceases to fall past perfection.

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Summary: Harry Potter galore
Review: I have to admit I was a bit skeptical on the popularity of the Harry Potter series. I changed my mind when last year I read the fifth book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". JK Rowling has quite the vivid imagination. I was impressed that she has this ability to write a series a books that both children and adults could enjoy. For last Christmas I asked for the paperback boxed set of the first four Harry Potter books. I am currently less than half way through the third book "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". I have yet to get to "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". As much as I enjoyed the first two books, I have to say "The Prisoner of Azkaban" is my personal favorite (so far). It is too bad that evangelicals who have criticized JK Rowlings and her books can't see the books for what they are and that is pure entertainment. Reading the Harry Potter books have been a pure joy. I cannot wait to see "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" this summer. I don't plan on seeing it until I finish the book. I personally would rather have the paperback boxed set than to have bought each book separately. Like anything comes cheap nowadays. I hope I don't have to wait so long for the sixth Harry Potter book but I wouldn't hold my breathe for it either.

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Summary: Harry Potter
Review: I loved all of these books in the 1-5 series. They are not for a serious adult reader but if you don't mind becoming a part of the fantacy world for sometime, these books are awesome.

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Summary: Good Service
Review: I received the books before Christmas and in good time from hence I sent my order.

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Summary: If I could I would give it a hundred stars!!!
Review: I wasn't interesting in reading this series until I saw the trailer for the first movie. It facinated me, so I went out that very night and bought Sorcerer's Stone. I couldn't put it down. I read completely through it that night. I ran to the nearest bookstore the next morning and bought the next 3 books. I was enthralled. I spent that day and the next reading my new treasures. I didn't stop (and barely slept) until 3pm two days later when I read the last word of Goblet of Fire. I have been a fanatic Harry Potter fan ever since. I have read each book so many times I have lost track. Yet each time I read them I find something new, something I didn't notice before. These books have a quality that makes them timeless. No matter what age you are. I am a college student who showed up to the premiere of the first movie an hour early because I was too excited to wait. I eagerly look forward to the next installment with anticipation. :)

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Most people associate Harry Potter with little kids or strange adults with no lives (I know I sure did)but into my first book's page I was pleasantly proven wrong.
The first Harry Potter book basically is an introduction into the wizarding world for all us Muggles and lays the groundwork for the following books. It's a short, interesting read and is essential to understanding the rest of the books.
The second book is darker, and one of my favorites. Here Harry discovers a new ability and meets for the second time with You-Know-Who, who's possessing a teacher in his school.
The third book is one of my least favorites, though the beginings and endings make up for the middle which I found rather slower reading (though still interesting). Here, Harry meets with Sirius Black, and finds out some important things about his parents' lives and deaths. Again, laying some groundwork for the future.
And then we come to my favorite book of the series, including five. The Goblet of Fire centers on the Triwizard Tournament, and with it comes crushes, fights, and a believable teen angst-filled trio.
But the ending, with an unexpected death, the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and a rift with the Ministry is the best parts of all. Here, you feel the series changing into a more adult Harry, a Harry with a real burden,not just a little kid with a scar anymore.
The boxed set is the best way to introduce yourself to the series because after reading these, all you have to do is (hem, hem) go and get Number 5.
Believe me, cynic now, you'll be waiting on line outside your bookstore for Number 6 behind me.

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Summary: harry potter is a great book series
Review: this was a good box set and so much worth the price when i got it was cheap i would rather buy this then by its self unless you have but didnt then get this or get the box set with book 5 in it thats even better

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Summary: A unique piece of magic
Review: While everyone around me threw themselves into the series of Harry Potter books I wasn't interested in them at all.I thought the idea of the book was ridiculous and I wasn't going to waste my time reading them.However,after getting the Philosiphors Stone for Christmas,I read it and loved it instantly.The gripping story of Harry's sudden journey from being a lonely,mistreated boy to the wizard world's most famous wizard for bringing about the downfall of Lord Voldemort is a unique piece of literature.In book we one,we meet all the new characters and travel with Harry on the journey of learning magical education while battling with the ongoing puzzle of the mysterious Philosiphors stone and its whereabouts.
I then went on to read The Chamber of Secrets.It,too proved to be even more gripping and intense than book one.With an exciting and thrilling beginning as Harry escapes narrowly from the clasp of his evil aunt and uncle,we are again,thrown into Harry's journey in Hogwarts.This time,there is something more sinister.A evil,haunting presence is in Hogwarts,supposedly escaped from the legendary Chamber of Secrets.Harry must discover the whereabouts of this Chamber and destroy this evil force before Hogwarts is forced to close down.
The Prisoner of Azkaban proved to be my favourite in the Series so far.Again,a thrilling and epic journey begins when it is globally discovered that Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban-a wizarding prison and is on the loose-supposedly lurking around Hogwarts.Harry soon learns that this convicted murderer is after him.Things get very intense at Hogwarts until a great discovery is made at the end of the book compete with a gripping finale.
Then,finally,I came to The Goblet of Fire which again,proved to be better than its predecessors.As Harry returns to Hogwarts after a thrilling Quidditch world cup,he is thrown into the legendary and famous Triwizards Tournament in which a member of three wizarding Schools each competes for the prize of one thousand galleons.As Harry competes in the difficult tasks,it becomes clear that someone in Hogwarts intends to hurt Harry,the question is,who?Just as the Triwizard tournamant is about to come to an end,Harry is forced to come face to face with his greatest challenge yet.The finale in this book is greater,more frightening and more gripping than before which closes spectacularly.
These series of books have proved to be much much more than I could have ever imagined and after reading them multiple times,they continue to thrill and captivate me.I recommend you read them,you won't be disappointed.